Trio alert to global food warning (From Daily Echo)
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Trio from University of Southampton alert to global food warning
10:56am Thursday 29th December 2011 in Education
Trio alert to global food warning
Southampton academics have played a key role in producing a major United Nations report on the world’s food and agriculture resources.
Three researchers contributed to the paper, which forecasts huge strain on agricultural systems as food production increases by 70 per cent globally by 2050 to cope with the planet’s growing population, expected to reach 9 billion by then.
The University of Southampton team – Dr Craig Hutton, Professor Mike Clark, both from the university’s GeoData Institute, and demographer Dr Fiifi Amoako Johnson – helped develop spatial statistics and mapping of poverty and environmental factors.
They also provided strategic contribution to the overall message of the document.
Dr Hutton said the report is aimed at informing “public debate and policymaking at national and international levels”.
He said: “The University of Southampton now has a substantial international profile in food security, poverty and resource management, particularly in the context of climate change.”
Comments(6)
George4th
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12:27pm Thu 29 Dec 11
Goldenwight
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1:10pm Thu 29 Dec 11
On a positive note, though, the subsequent deforestation will have cleared land for crops to be grown on hopefully.
Bagamn
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1:37pm Thu 29 Dec 11
Sovietobserver
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1:43pm Thu 29 Dec 11
I would also suggest that the appropriate authorities investigate the possibility of monitoring those in a minority of the earths population who are responsible for their own obesity through indulgence, and deny others of a fair intake of food , and make them pay for corrective medical attention, and introduce a food tax on those who refuse to paticipate in any such scheme.
Huffter
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1:55pm Thu 29 Dec 11
Sovietobserver wrote:I think this scheme already operates in North Korea. It would certainly solve the problem - and I'd be first in the queue at Beachy Head!
Is there another university department that can investigate which nations are increasing their populations the most, and then advise them how to build family planning clinics and how to train staff how to implement birth control programmes to the most prolithic producers of offspring, before we all starve to death. I would also suggest that the appropriate authorities investigate the possibility of monitoring those in a minority of the earths population who are responsible for their own obesity through indulgence, and deny others of a fair intake of food , and make them pay for corrective medical attention, and introduce a food tax on those who refuse to paticipate in any such scheme.
Huffter says...
12:25pm Thu 29 Dec 11