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UK faces food security catastrophe as honeybee numbers fall, scientists warn
2014-01-08 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK faces a food security catastrophe because of its very low numbers of honeybee colonies, which provide an essential service in pollinating many crops, scientists warned on Wednesday. New research reveals that honeybees provide just a quarter of the pollination needed in the UK, the second lowest level among 41 European countries. Furthermore, the controversial rise of biofuels in Europe is driving up the need for pollination five times faster than the rise in honeybee numbers. The research...
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OFC: Reduce Waste, Help Solve Food Security Problems
2014-01-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Global food security problems will not be solved solely by producing more food, writes Chris Harris from the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC).
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Global Food Security Relies on Trade
2013-12-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - On a global scale food supply is sufficient to feed the entire population but its uneven distribution leaves a significant proportion of the world’s population food insecure while others live in abundance of food, writes Chris Harris.
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Africa: 'Climate-Smart' Agriculture Needed to Steer Food Security Through Changing Weather
2013-12-09 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AllAfrica: Agroforestry, diversification of crops with legumes and other practical measures must be scaled up to end hunger while meeting the challenge of climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a global conference on the issue today. "Agriculture is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, famers worldwide are increasingly feeling the effects of a warming climate," Mr. Ban said in a message to the Third Global Conference on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition...
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World food security at risk as crop yields plateau
2013-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For the last decade and a half, a mysterious and worrisome trend has emerged in the farming world that has sent farmers, scientists and policy makers looking for answers. Crop yields -- how much of a crop is harvested per hectare -- for some of the world's major grains like rice, wheat and corn have gone from increasing year after year to plateauing in many of the world's biggest grain producers. Until about the middle of the 20th century, the only way farmers knew to increase production...
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