[Terrapreta] A context for Folke and All.

[Michael Bailes]

2008/5/22 lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>:

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> Isn't this exactly what we've been talking about?
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> http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/20/95738/8301
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> Blairo Maggi -- the world's largest soy producer and one of Brazil's most
> powerful politicians -- says:
>
> With the worsening of the global food crisis, the time is coming when it
> will be inevitable to discuss *whether we preserve the environment or
> produce more food. There is no way to produce more food without occupying
> more land and taking down more trees.
>
> My assumption has been that biochar might instead create any opportunity to
> produce more food -- enough more food -- and do a better job of preserving
> the environment. Does anyone truly disagree?*


Some of the causes of the world food shortage
Not all of them about trees.
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>    - word bank strictures rules on developing countries.
>    -  European japanese American and australian farm subsidies.
>    - The drought in places like Australia
>    - poor harvests in europe.
>    - disease (50%) reduction in Vietnam's rice crop)
>    - stock enchange speculation on food futures
>    - War and other conflics
>    - The world population increases by some 75 million persons each year
>    - increased logistical costs linked to the price of oil,
>    - Changes in diet (Chinese eating much more meat, for each calorie of
>    beef to be produced,
>    - we need 9 calories of plants ; and we need 4.5 calories of plants to
>    produce one calorie of milk or egg.)
>    - estimates that, 16% of the land currently under cultivation is
>    threatened by exhaustion
>    - soil degredation
>    - Climate change.
>    - Hoarding of food reserves.
>    - Import tarrifs
>    - Biofuels (especilly the silly USA system) Since 2004, the total
>    increase in the production of corn in the United States has gone to the   .
>    . .istinctions should be drawn between different sources of agrofuels, some
>    of which represent a more serious threat to food security than others, and
>    some of which may have an underestimated potential
>    - production of bioethanol:
>
> causes of food shortages
>
> http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:-LXw458-edYJ:www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/docs/SRRTFnotefoodcrisis.pdf+Food+and+Agricultural+Organization+(FAO)+estimates+grain+ethanol+worldwide+in+2007-2008.&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=au&client=firefox-a<http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:-LXw458-edYJ:www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/docs/SRRTFnotefoodcrisis.pdf+Food+and+Agricultural+Organization+%28FAO%29+estimates+grain+ethanol+worldwide+in+2007-2008.&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=au&client=firefox-a>
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-- 
Michael the Archangel
"Politicians will never solve The Problem;
because they don't realise they are The Problem.".
-Robert ( Bob ) Parsons 1995
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