The main reason why there are now over seven billion people on Earth is largely due to the emergenc

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Food prices are rapidly industrial scales heading toward a new record, and there is much more at stake than just a drought in the Midwest of the USA. There are serious industrial scales implications, especially for nations with high rates of poverty and inequality. It is almost certain that we will face a famine in potentially catastrophic global scale in the coming decades.
The main reason why there are now over seven billion people on Earth is largely due to the emergence of two distinct technologies. Firstly, cheap fossil fuels allowed to grow food in industrial scales. Currently we need about ten calories industrial scales of fossil industrial scales fuel energy to produce one calorie of food. A century ago, every calorie of energy spent producing two calories of food. Secondly, the advances in healthcare, especially antibiotics and vaccines, have increased the length of human life.
It is a growing challenge to feed that population industrial scales increases exponentially. We produce enough for everyone on Earth to have enough food, but, despite this abundance, a significant proportion of people do not have money to feed properly. How come?
There are three main reasons for this. Firstly, the unequal distribution of wealth. Secondly, meat consumption has grown as wealth industrial scales increases. The grazing area for the production industrial scales of meat, mainly beef, uses more than a quarter of the free ice surface of the Earth. Furthermore, over a third of all land is used to grow crops to feed livestock. This is produced through industrial farming practices with energy intensive.
Thirdly, the risks associated with non-renewable energy industrial scales encouraged the wealthy governments to promote the production and consumption industrial scales of "biofuels". These are produced from agricultural resources such as cane sugar, beet sugar, corn, soybeans and oil, such as oil palm and canola.
This focus on biofuels - which opponents industrial scales prefer to call agrofuel because of their propensity to divert scarce agricultural resources toward the production of fuel - caused an unprecedented shift in focus in the agricultural production industrial scales of food crops to plant for the production of fuels .
As a result, sensitive ecosystems tracks were destroyed to plant for crops like oil palm, sugar cane, corn and soybeans. High oil prices have a powerful economic incentive to support this environmentally disastrous change. This destruction is occurring since in the jungles of Indonesia - shifting emblematic species industrial scales like orangutans - to West Africa, where local communities are evicted in order to attract "foreign investment" and planting crops for agrofuel production.
Biofuel production has a clear impact on global food stocks, which are currently approaching historic lows. Last year, almost 40% of America's corn crop became ethanol fuel. As the USA is the largest producer of corn, this has serious implications for the world food trade. This is especially true in light of the severe drought this year across the American Midwest. Corn prices are at record highs, almost double last year's levels. industrial scales
High oil prices will keep the demand for corn ethanol, perpetuating the insanity of using food as fuel. The global trade in commodities such crops is dominated by three companies - Cargill, industrial scales Bunge and Archer Daniel industrial scales Midland - each deeply involved in both the production of ethanol as the market coverage and speculation.
This commodification of food makes food security at the mercy of the market. There is no global central oversight or planning to ensure sufficient stocks of food. The food is controlled by the market, not by logic, and certainly not by grace.
One solution proposed by neoliberal interests, such as the G8 and the elitist World Economic Forum, is to modernize agriculture throughout the developing world, industrial scales particularly in Africa, where production has been historically lagged international standards. This solution is modeled on the imposition of costly and intensive agricultural practices, dependent on fertilizers, hybrid and genetically modified seeds, increased mechanization and the use of pesticides and chemicals on vulnerable