food shortage: 1/3 of 3
The end of food as we know it
Joanna Blythman
1st March, 2008
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken. more...Engineering Hunger
Andrew Kimbrell
1st May, 2003
In the penultimate extract from Fatal Harvest’s demolition of agribusiness disinformation, The Ecologist assesses the claim that biotechnology will solve industrial agriculture’s ills. more...
Food: the scarcity myth
Frances Moore-Lappe
20th March, 2001
Today, while hunger stunts the lives of hundreds of millions of people, grassroots movements in Kenya and Brazil are winning the war on want. Frances Moore Lappé investigates more...
food shortage: 1/3 of 3
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