{"id":11264,"date":"2012-11-07T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funverde.org.br\/blog\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T11:00:14","slug":"the-new-global-food-crisis-lester-browns-full-planet-empty-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funverde.org.br\/blog\/the-new-global-food-crisis-lester-browns-full-planet-empty-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Global Food Crisis – Lester Brown\u2019s Full Planet, Empty Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The phrase \u201cglobal food crisis\u201d may strike us in the developed world as a bit overblown. Sure, we\u2019re paying more at the grocery store, and that\u2019s possibly affecting our discretionary spending\u2026 but we\u2019re definitely not going hungry. And, OK, there are people in other parts of the world that don\u2019t get enough to eat\u2026 but that\u2019s not anything new, right?<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s hard to imagine threats to our food supply when you can walk into a grocery store almost anywhere in the US and find an abundance of affordable meat, dairy, and produce. But in his new book Full Planet, Empty \u00a0Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, Lester R. Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, aptly demonstrates that our current food security situation is anything but normal\u2026 and could even represent the \u201cweak link\u201d to maintaining the standard of living to which we\u2019ve become accustomed.<\/p>\n

The structure of the book itself gives some insight into the threat posed by food scarcity. I\u2019ve read a number of Brown\u2019s books over the years, and I\u2019ve gotten used to a pattern in them: the first half or so scares the hell out of you; the second half shows that there\u2019s hope. After reading for a while, I flipped ahead a bit to see where that hopeful part started\u2026 and discovered that there wasn\u2019t one. The combination of threats to our food supply isn\u2019t like anything we\u2019ve ever faced before, so we\u2019re treading into new territory.<\/p>\n

Many of the elements of this combination aren\u2019t new, and Full Planet, Empty Plates provides ample history of the threats agriculture has faced before. Previous civilizations have destroyed the fertility of their soil, for instance, and the US Dust Bowl occurred because of poor land and soil management practices. We understand those problems, and have recovered from them. But now we\u2019re adding new threats: a population of over 7 billion people, falling water tables, climate change, and deforestation. These threats aren\u2019t just environmental: as we\u2019ve already seen in the Middle East, these challenges to food security threaten the very structure of society itself. And the means by which we\u2019re trying to address these threats only deal with the symptoms of the problem: the global \u201cland rush,\u201d for instance, may provide some temporary respite from food supply worries in some countries, but ultimately contributes to the larger challenges.<\/p>\n

As with all of Brown\u2019s books, Full Planet, Empty Plates is very well-documented: as pointed out in this post here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>over 150 data sets accompany the book. Brown fully explains the extent of food challenges in various regions of the globe, and the potential impacts based on environmental and socioeconomic factors in these regions. Yes, the reading can get a little dry or even overwhelming at points, but despite his grounding in the data, Brown never forgets the human impact, and portrays it with honesty and compassion.<\/p>\n

This is a frightening book. We\u2019re dealing with challenges that are very new: the price spikes in 2007-08 are really the first to represent the combination of threats that Brown explores here. We\u2019re seeing some of that currently after this Summer\u2019s Midwestern drought. Despite the unique combination of threats, we do know how to deal with them: from family planning to low-carbon energy development to reforestation efforts, the solutions are available to us. I suppose that \u201cif\u201d keeps Brown from spelling out the hopefulness of this situation: we have the tools available to face this challenge, but, so far, we\u2019ve proven unwilling to use them with the necessary urgency.<\/p>\n

Have you read Full Planet, Empty Plates? If so, share your take on it\u2026<\/p>\n

Fonte – Sustainablog de 05 de novembro de 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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