Can We Feed 9 Billion People?

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Can We Feed 9 Billion People? By Laurie Goering LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks. Chesapeake Energy CEO Is 'Deeply Sorry' South Korea Carbon Trading Scheme Approved Fracking Fluids Could Migrate Into Aquifers, Study Says Markets Graded On Sustainable Seafood Shell's Alabama Offshore Drilling Plans Challenged In Court BLOG POSTS Carl Pope: Suppose You Could Actually See Climate Change? This is an image that shows the cumulative increase or decrease in the amount of water on each part of the earth's surface from 2003-2009. Gary Hirshberg: Turn the Lights All the Way Up Our food system has been adept at keeping the lights out or at least dimmed. But that is changing. The FDA should start by following the practices of more than 40 other nations and label genetically engineered foods. Eric Holt Gimenez: We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. For the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased faster than the rate of global population growth. Shoshana Zuboff: When Global Warming Ate My Life A bolt of lightening crashed through the kitchen window, mowed me down like a freight train hurtling through my chest. Then came smoke. Fifteen minutes later we were out in the storm, watching in disbelief as our beloved home vanished in a towering wall of flame. Dr. Laurie Marker: Why Helping People Is Key to Saving the Endangered Cheetah If the cheetah loses its race for survival, the American Prong-horn Antelope will become the fastest land mammal, and all those textbooks naming the cheetah as the fastest land animal will need to be changed.

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