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Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

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Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary staples, fluctuate violently on the world market [...]

Waste not, want not

Ethanol from rubbish is the latest biofuel

Scientists Work To Plug Microorganisms Into The Energy Grid

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The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are proving to be efficient sources of inexpensive, environmentally friendly biofuels that can serve as alternatives to [...]

Debunking the food crisis

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Food, Food, Everywhere – And Not a Crumb to Eat
According to recent reports, nearly a billion people are severely affected by the high cost of food. Yet the problem doesn’t have to do with the simple economic equation of supply and demand. Indeed, these same reports note that while the cost of [...]

Change We Can Stomach

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COOKING, like farming, for all its down-home community spirit, is essentially a solitary craft. But lately it’s feeling more like a lonely burden. Finding guilt-free food for our menus — food that’s clean, green and humane — is about as easy as securing a housing loan. And we’re suddenly paying more — [...]