By Lester R. Brown In early January, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that its Food Price Index had reached an all-time high in December, exceeding the previous [ … ]
Tag: food security
Restoring Food Security for All Takes Action on Many Fronts
By Lester R. Brown Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the [ … ]
Improving Food Security by Strategically Reducing Grain Demand
By Lester R. Brown After several decades of rapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with [ … ]
The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
By Lester R. Brown A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to [ … ]
Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security
By Lester R. Brown With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over [ … ]
Plan B – A Plan to Save Civilization
By Lester R. Brown There is much that we do not know about the future. But one thing we do know is that business as usual, including our continuing failure [ … ]
Growing Demand For Soybeans Threatens Amazon Rainforest
Image credit: Tiago Fioreze at Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license Originally published at Plan B Updates By Lester R. Brown Some 3,000 years ago, farmers in eastern China [ … ]
Plan B Update: The Copenhagen Conference on Food Security
Lester R. Brown For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations [ … ]
Freedom Gardens and the 100 Foot Diet Challenge
More and more people are taking the plunge into backyard gardening. Some are even planting fruits and veggies in their front yard and adopting the “no-mow” approach. Last year one [ … ]