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China and Arab states grabbing up arable land at escalating rates
As Mark Twain once wrote to Congress, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore" It seems that Chinese firms and Arab sheiks, along with a few Wall Streeters, have taken Twain’s counsel to heart. A new report just published
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Africa: We Can Feed 10 Billion, but Will We?
Shanghai :: China | 11 months ago
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Thomas Malthus' eloquent Essay on Population, published in 1798, crystallised the dilemma for modern times. Malthus argued that humanity was doomed to poverty and famine because the human population grew exponentially, while mankind's ability to
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Phoney food fears ignore nimble market solutions
Sydney :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Story continues below This new food crisis has something for everyone. Tim Flannery's Climate Change Commission blames climate change...Oxfam's latest campaign attributes higher food prices to ''speculation'', following the ''when in doubt, blame
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The ongoing appeal of this ‘libel against the human race’
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Respond Lisping, reclusive and reviled by the working class of his day, the Reverend Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) the man behind the idea that the lower orders of society' breed too quickly would probably be surprised by his current popularity...
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Beware Malthusians posing as progressives
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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As we approach the Day of Seven Billion, when the seven billionth human being will be born, a debate is raging. On one side, population scaremongers are fretting about the arrival of Child No.7,000,000,000, claiming that he or she will add to a
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Green: Reverend Malthus and the Future of Food
Berlin :: Germany | almost 2 years ago
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Josh Haner/The New York Times Selecting wheat plants for further breeding at a research center in Obregon, Mexico. My article in Sunday's paper about the world's food supply offered portents of a more difficult human future. Factors like population
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Will inflation turn out to be a game-changer in India?
Mumbai :: India | 2 years ago
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If the RBI decides its foremost task is to stamp out inflation, never mind if it flattens the growth rate also in the process, that would be change we don't want. However, inflation can also drastically change the rural landscape, boosting farm
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We must all take responsibility | Nick Spencer
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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We must all take responsibility Renewed public emphasis on personal responsibility will hopefully include the civic engagement central to the 'big society' For all the complexity involved in harmonising more than 50 different benefit payments into
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Peoplequake, By Fred Pearce
Berlin :: Germany | 2 years ago
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Fred Pearce looks squarely at that elephant and discovers that it's no more than a medium-sized cow...He examines Thomas Malthus's "Essay on the Principles of Population", and concludes that Malthus was mistaken on two counts: he underestimated the
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The definitive guide to modern-day Malthusians
Lagos :: Nigeria | over 2 years ago
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And probably the same number of newspaper column inches will be filled with Malthusian cant. We can expect everyone from unreconstructed population-controllers to trendy-sounding greens to fret out loud about the swarm of people now raiding Mother
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