Doesn’t it seem as though there are more crop diseases than ever popping up in 2009? The latest crisis is a disease known as “late blight”, and it is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States. As if tomatoes were not expensive enough already. Most Americans have never […]
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Will a wheat rust that the vast majority of Americans have never heard of lead to a catastrophic global famine? Agricultural scientists now fear that Ug99, a devastating wheat fungus also known as stem rust, could wipe out over 80 percent of the world’s wheat crop as it spreads from Africa all across the globe. […] Most Americans laugh at the idea of building up an emergency food supply. But let us consider what happened in 2008 when food prices spiked and millions were suddenly facing an unexpected food shortage. The following articles are from last summer during the height of the food riots around the world, and they illustrate what […] |
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