A ‘magic’ recipe for global food shortages

But these lower prices on world markets do not flow through to poor people who live in countries where governments slug imports with high taxes. The result is a double-whammy of misery: poor people face higher prices and smaller supplies than they should and production falls because market-facing farmers get lower prices than people are willing…

High food prices accelerate structural change in Europe

Bartering for food ‘security’

A coal quiz

The answer to the first question may surprise you. Click the image.

How bad is global deforestation?

Regrettably, the Report's material on deforestation and on the role of forests in the carbon cycle is short on data and analysis. The Report contents itself with a reference to the IPCC estimate (Fourth Assessment Report) that deforestation contributes about 15 of total anthropic emissions but ignores the current scientific controversies relevant to that estimate: especially…