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Gary Gardner
Gary Gardner
Lester Brown
Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. There are substitutes for oil, but not for water. We can produce food without oil, but not without water.
Mark Tran, The Guardian
UN special rapporteur on the right to food champions agroecology as sustainable alternative to existing framework
Alister Doyle
Sep 10 , 2012
SOPHIA LI
August 13, 2012
Groundwater depletion is particularly severe in places including California’s Central Valley, the Upper Ganges in India and Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, researchers report.
John Vidal
By 2050 there will be another 2.5 billion people on the planet. How to feed them? Science's answer: a diet of algae, insects and meat grown in a lab
David Fogarty
SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Extreme heat can cause wheat crops to age faster and reduce yields, a U.S.-led study shows, underscoring the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population as the world warms.
Megan Rowling
Water must be used more efficiently to meet rising food demand from a growing population amid climate-change pressures, experts say.
Olivier De Schutter, Gaëtan Vanloqueren
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein
A farmer gathers wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
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