"They made the world so hard
Every day the people are dying " --- Bob Marley _One Drop_
> 12 Myths About Hunger
Institute for Food and Development Policy Backgrounder Summer 1998, Vol.5, No. 3
> 飢餓は神話ではなく現実だ。しかし神話が飢餓を温存させている。
https://www.journeytoforever.org/jp/foodfirst/report/hunger/12myths.html
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The United Nations is warning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead to a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” that would be especially devastating for the Global South. Wheat and fertilizer prices have soared since the war began three weeks ago. Global food prices could jump by as much as 22% this year as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupts exports from two of the world’s largest producers of wheat and fertilizer. Rising fuel prices will also contribute to higher food prices. To talk more about how Russia’s war in Ukraine is leading to a global food crisis, we are joined by Raj Patel, author of “Stuffed and Starved” and a research professor at the University of Texas at Austin, who explains how farmers and working-class people around the world will face the brunt of the impact of growing food prices. He notes the coronavirus, climate change, conflict and capitalism are working to compound one another and underscore the necessity to transition to sustainable, agroecological farming.
> In 2006, a seminal study in the Global South compared yields in 198 projects in 55 countries and found that ecologically attuned farming increased crop yields by an average of almost 80 percent. A 2007 University of Michigan global study concluded that organic farming could support the current human population, and expected increases without expanding farmed land. Then, in 2009...
- https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/farming-for-a-small-planet/
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