Food Security conference in London: Meeting the Global Challenges of the Future
The Partnership Media Group Ltd. has organised a conference in London on global food security. They write that the world is facing a potential crisis in terms of food security. The challenge is to...
View ArticleFriends of the Earth comment on Foresight report on Global Food and Farming...
Commenting on The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures report, Friends of the Earth‘s Food Campaigner Kirtana Chandrasekaran said “this report shines a spotlight on our mounting food and...
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Environmental consequences of ocean acidification: A threat to food security
The United Nations Environment Programme has a Division of Early Warning and Assessment. This division provides an assessment of developing environmental threats such as honey bee colony disorder and...
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Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor to DEFRA, speaks about food...
Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor to DEFRA, speaks to the SDUK Conference about food security, climate change and our natural environment (click image to expand - ©RLLord) This is an...
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June conference in London on meeting the global food security challenges of...
Inside Government has organised a conference on “Meeting the Global Food Security Challenges of the Future through Science and Innovation” on Thursday 28 June 2011 in central London. Conference...
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World’s poor will suffer most from global food price rises
(click report cover to download from Oxfam website) Oxfam warned on 31 May 2011 that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change the...
View ArticleHumans making global ecosystem vulnerable to tipping point
Nature presents confirmation that the global ecosystem is approaching a transition, highlighting the need to improve forecasting and address human influences on such changes. The Review, ‘Approaching a...
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Oxfam highlights impact of extreme weather on global food prices
(Please click on the report summary to go to the Oxfam website) According to international agency Oxfam, new research shows that the full impact of climate change on future food prices is being...
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Guernsey’s achilles heel is food and energy security
Toby Birch is Managing Director of Oppenheim & Co. Ltd based in Guernsey (click image to expand) The consultation published in February 2012 on Guernsey’s Economic Development Strategy by Oxford...
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Food security threatened as pests move poleward with global warming
Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, mating on a potato plant in the Netherlands. This important pest of potato crops was introduced to Europe from North America (click image to expand –...
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