Food Futures

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The World Future Society Forecasts for the Next 25 Years: Forecast #1

The dust bowls of the twenty-first century will dwarf those seen in the twentieth. Two giant dust bowls are now forming, in Asia and in Africa, due to massive amounts of soil erosion and desertification resulting from overgrazing, over-plowing, and deforestation, warns environmental futurist Lester R. Brown.
Implications: The choices we make today as consumers and voters affect the future availability of water and food — not just in our own communities, but also throughout the world. We can promote tree-planting efforts to conserve soil and sequester carbon, and we can move toward less resource-intensive diets.

World running out of resources: UN

ABC News 31-02-2012

A major United Nations report has called for a sustainable "evergreen revolution", warning that time is running out to ensure there is enough food, water and fuel to meet the needs of the world's rapidly growing population.

In a grim warning about the earth's increasing demand for resources, a panel led by the presidents of Finland and South Africa found demand will grow exponentially as the global population rises from 7 billion people to an expected 9 billion by 2040.

Within the next 20 years the world's population will need 50 per cent more food and vast new reserves of energy and water, according to UN estimates. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-31/world-running-out-of-resources-says-un/3801618 

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