"As demand starts to outrun supply, grain prices are rising. Higher
grain prices will not have much effect on the world's affluent, but
for the 1.3 billion people who live on a dollar a day or less, rising
grain prices quickly become life threatening....
"Securing future food supplies now goes far beyond ministries of
agriculture, involving family planners as well as farmers. Decisions
made in ministries of energy that affect climate stability may have a
greater effect on food security than those made in ministries of
agriculture. The steps needed to secure future food supplies,
including stabilizing population and climate, are precisely the same
as those needed to move the world economy onto an environmentally
sustainable path...."
Report # 135, /Recycling organic waste: from urban pollutant to farm
resource/, also Aug. 1997, also makes urban/rural connections and
offers a sustainability/recycling perspective.
peace
misha
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Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias/
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