Professor Julian Cribb writes:
World food security, as Australian consumers and others are fast discovering, is at its lowest in half a century. The precipitous fall in world food stocks in the past seven years is forewarning of what we can expect in the next few decades as civilisation runs low on water, arable land, nutrients and technology, as marine catches collapse, as biofuels grow and energy costs rise, and as droughts intensify under climate change.
The chart of grain stocks reveals that, year on year, humanity now consumes more food than it produces.
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Watch Professor Julian Cribb giving his full speech on The Global farm Crisis at the 2008 National Agrifood Conference. If your net speed is so slow you can’t watch it you can read it online here.
Julian Cribb is an agricultural journalist and science communicator.
(thanks to Agmates reader Sally)
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