Thinking about Food...
Apr. 1st, 2008 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenRice Rustlers in Thailand
Food Riots and Shortages Around the World, Affecting Middle-Class in Some Places, Not Only the Poor
Sharon Astyk wrote on this stuff today, plus a hilarious April 1 post on Buying Green.
Some farmers are looking at turning more the Midwests' open plains and prairies into cropland -- nevermind that the plains and prairie aren't really suited to growing crops (I hope everyone reading this knows that not all soil is the same, some are richer than others, etc.).
Currently some of the land is used, not for crops but as a buffer between the cropland and environmentally fragile areas, helping to catch/filter the chemical runoff. Hm, combine this with a really good drought and.... anyone heard of the Dust Bowl?
Ah well. Hopefully there will be more rain in the west/south this year, and not just for the grain farmers. All the folks down there could use more water.
Food Riots and Shortages Around the World, Affecting Middle-Class in Some Places, Not Only the Poor
Sharon Astyk wrote on this stuff today, plus a hilarious April 1 post on Buying Green.
Some farmers are looking at turning more the Midwests' open plains and prairies into cropland -- nevermind that the plains and prairie aren't really suited to growing crops (I hope everyone reading this knows that not all soil is the same, some are richer than others, etc.).
Currently some of the land is used, not for crops but as a buffer between the cropland and environmentally fragile areas, helping to catch/filter the chemical runoff. Hm, combine this with a really good drought and.... anyone heard of the Dust Bowl?
Ah well. Hopefully there will be more rain in the west/south this year, and not just for the grain farmers. All the folks down there could use more water.
