Posted in Food, Peak Oil, tagged Biogas, food prices, japan, japanese farming, maff, oil prices, organic farming, Peak food, permaculture, rice, Starvation, teikei, tokyo, Tony Boys, trade surplus on April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rising concerns
The World Food Program have declared that the food crisis is a “silent tsunami” sweeping the world which, like a large natural disaster, requires a global response. Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning harbour wave. Could this disaster-prone country be seriously affected by the crisis?
In a recent survey, over 40% of people in [...]
Posted in Food, Peak Oil, tagged Agriculture, biofuels, Biogas, Cuba, famine, farming, International Trade, japan, North Korea, Organic Fertilizer, Peak food on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A change is needed
As rice prices continue to surge, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have been calling for a summit to discuss the crisis in the world food situation.
Groups such as Canada’s National Farming Union (NFU) are commenting that it is becoming clear that the whole fabric of food production needs to change. [...]
Posted in Food, Peak Oil, tagged China, export industry, farming, food imports, food prices, food production, food wastage, japan, Peak food, road construction on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rising food prices
The worldwide price rises in food are beginning to have a serious effect in Japan. Last year the government raised the price at which it sells imported wheat to millers for the first time since 1983. In November, the country was forced to use emergency funds to support noodle-makers, bakers and breweries.
Now butter [...]
Posted in Food, Peak Oil, tagged biofuels, famine, food prices, food protests, food riots, free trade, Ghana, globalisation, hoarding, India, Jamaica, japan, Peak food, price controls, rice, soy beans, sustainability, World Bank on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In Part 1 – Price Rises and Causes, I wrote about how the World Food Program are slashing their aid this year, unless they receive further funding from donors. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg for the developing world.
The one thing that is likely to cause social unrest, above politics, religion and [...]
Posted in Food, Peak Oil, tagged biofuels, China, consumer economy, environmental damage, famine, food prices, japan, Peak food, Peak Oil, population growth, sustainability, World Food Program on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
And so it begins…
The World Food Programme (WFP) announced in March that the number of people they can help will fall greatly this year, due to the recent and sustained increase in the price of food. They are appealing to governments around the world to up their funding to meet their needs. A recent Al [...]
