tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post3425347618101370975..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: What's that got to do with the price of bread?byron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-3256953450874328792012-09-03T13:41:33.981+01:002012-09-03T13:41:33.981+01:00Larry Elliott: The era of cheap food is over.Larry Elliott: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/02/era-of-cheap-food-over" rel="nofollow">The era of cheap food is over</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-72337379769358961152012-05-23T14:24:18.763+01:002012-05-23T14:24:18.763+01:00CC: New study models effects of climate and other ...CC: <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-has-outsize-effect-on-volatility-of-corn-prices-study-shows" rel="nofollow">New study</a> models effects of climate and other factors on the price of corn and finds that climate is likely to be far more significant than generally thought over the next few decades, largely through increased frequency and severity of heat waves.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-16218436716047617672012-04-12T23:49:56.135+01:002012-04-12T23:49:56.135+01:00New report from the Commission on Sustainable Agri...<a href="http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">New report</a> from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. Titled <i>Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change</i>, it has a number of interesting recommendations, and a graph on page 19 that brings them together under three broad headings.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-5550009022486016072012-03-14T02:38:23.224+00:002012-03-14T02:38:23.224+00:00Climate Change Exacerbates Scarcity in Already Foo...<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201203050380.html" rel="nofollow">Climate Change Exacerbates Scarcity in Already Food Insecure Regions</a>.<br /><br />Mapping places where malnutrition is already an issue with places predicted to face crop problems due to changing growing seasons.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-70159782254922223002012-02-22T01:24:19.004+00:002012-02-22T01:24:19.004+00:00Guardian: Russian 2010 heatwave was made three tim...Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/21/climate-change-russian-heatwave" rel="nofollow">Russian 2010 heatwave was made three times more likely due to anthropogenic climate change</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-83084637620391091502011-09-13T23:33:02.416+01:002011-09-13T23:33:02.416+01:00Guardian: Role of speculation in food prices. A ne...Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/sep/13/financial-speculators-spiralling-food-prices" rel="nofollow">Role of speculation in food prices</a>. A new report argues it is more significant than generally recognised.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-86033337302746325582011-08-31T15:44:02.745+01:002011-08-31T15:44:02.745+01:00Damian Carrington: Map linking food security and c...Damian Carrington: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/aug/31/food-security-prices-conflict" rel="nofollow">Map linking food security and conflict</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-36290244040338671742011-08-24T22:56:12.284+01:002011-08-24T22:56:12.284+01:00Fifty years ago, food represented around 30 per ce...Fifty years ago, food represented around 30 per cent of the average household budget, whereas nowadays it is nearer to 9 per cent.<br /><br />In 1962, the average Chinese person ate just 4kg of meat per year: by 2005 that figure was 60kg and rising.<br /><br />(I can't remember the source of these figures, but I had them in a draft post from a couple of years ago.)byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1473680931086460442011-08-17T17:59:13.145+01:002011-08-17T17:59:13.145+01:00CP: Texan drought and food crisis.CP: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/16/297326/no-end-in-sight-for-texas-drought-abc-news-farmer-climate-change/" rel="nofollow">Texan drought and food crisis</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-89614090697998336392011-08-04T23:31:35.813+01:002011-08-04T23:31:35.813+01:00Michael Tobis: The Texan drought is not really a T...Michael Tobis: <a href="http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2011/08/not-really-texas-centered-drought-at.html" rel="nofollow">The Texan drought is not really a Texan dought at all</a>. Ouch.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-44525281821671987252011-08-03T01:28:54.734+01:002011-08-03T01:28:54.734+01:00Guardian: Developing diets not to blame for price ...Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/02/global-demand-for-food" rel="nofollow">Developing diets not to blame for price spikes</a>. This FAO report places most of the short term blame on biofuel subsidies.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-34815658441580542052011-07-19T23:18:52.144+01:002011-07-19T23:18:52.144+01:00Guardian: Ethanol and the price of food.Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/19/biofuel-demand-us-fuel-prices" rel="nofollow">Ethanol and the price of food</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-66741827352351536392011-07-18T15:42:31.594+01:002011-07-18T15:42:31.594+01:00Guardian: High prices are here to stay.Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/17/food-prices-rise-commodities" rel="nofollow">High prices are here to stay</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-12664616434364334772011-07-09T00:52:04.256+01:002011-07-09T00:52:04.256+01:00CP: Food prices hover at historic highs.CP: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/08/264044/food-prices-extreme-weather-asian-demand/" rel="nofollow">Food prices hover at historic highs</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-21873461240543702322011-07-01T17:28:44.089+01:002011-07-01T17:28:44.089+01:00Mongabay: Worst drought in East Africa for 60 year...Mongabay: <a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0630-hance_eastafrica_drought.html" rel="nofollow">Worst drought in East Africa for 60 years</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-50125089867966074362011-07-01T00:17:50.448+01:002011-07-01T00:17:50.448+01:00CP: Just how bad is the drought in Texas?CP: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/29/257741/texas-drought/" rel="nofollow">Just how bad is the drought in Texas?</a>byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-31533131554822579202011-06-29T17:42:44.478+01:002011-06-29T17:42:44.478+01:00The Carbon Brief has an extensive list of links co...The Carbon Brief has an extensive list of links concerning links between <a href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/06/food,-hunger-and-climate-change" rel="nofollow">climate change, food production and global hunger</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-83336610531323947182011-06-28T22:04:54.060+01:002011-06-28T22:04:54.060+01:00SMH: The deadliest kind of food fight. (H/T Geoff)...SMH: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/deadliest-form-of-food-fight-20110626-1glvg.html" rel="nofollow">The deadliest kind of food fight</a>. (H/T Geoff)byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-8871896877376300862011-06-08T15:26:58.294+01:002011-06-08T15:26:58.294+01:00Thanks for all the feedback. I've read some o...Thanks for all the feedback. I've read some of Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food), but it's great to get a look at some of the other articles. I know there are people out there who are concerned about these issues and theological reflection, but it's nice to be reminded. I'm originally from Oklahoma and Kansas, and that part of the US doesn't care a bit Josh Lutonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14187024459958690924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-51421568268960751732011-06-08T03:24:58.013+01:002011-06-08T03:24:58.013+01:00Joe Romm has a good post looking at the link betwe...Joe Romm has a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/07/238855/fao-food-loss-co2-emissions/" rel="nofollow">good post</a> looking at the link between food production and carbon emissions.<br /><br />The standout surprise for me was the footprint of cheese in the first graph.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-70917803991082329252011-06-08T01:45:25.826+01:002011-06-08T01:45:25.826+01:00The FAO publishes regular reports called Food Outl...The FAO publishes regular reports called <a href="http://www.fao.org/giews/english/fo/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Food Outlook</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-23077132218884090442011-06-08T01:30:43.556+01:002011-06-08T01:30:43.556+01:00Bloomberg: this piece puts together what's hap...Bloomberg: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-05/wheat-fields-wilt-in-drought-as-parched-earth-spreads-from-china-to-kansas.html" rel="nofollow">this piece</a> puts together what's happening to wheat crops around the world in statistics.<br /><br />"In 32 years, I’ve never seen so many problems in so many places,” said Dan Basse, the president of AgResource Co., a farm byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-45439610515523391842011-06-08T01:06:40.509+01:002011-06-08T01:06:40.509+01:00Climate already affecting vulnerable farmers.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaiqWsQTeZ8&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">Climate already affecting vulnerable farmers</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-32404918887468208662011-06-08T00:05:29.477+01:002011-06-08T00:05:29.477+01:00NYT: Damaging the earth to feed its people.
"...NYT: <a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/damaging-the-earth-to-feed-its-people/" rel="nofollow">Damaging the earth to feed its people</a>.<br /><br />"farming and livestock grazing are not just potential victims of climate change — they are major causes of it."byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-67824179338089121892011-06-07T22:41:04.104+01:002011-06-07T22:41:04.104+01:00Hi Josh, what an excellent area to look into! I su...Hi Josh, what an excellent area to look into! I suggested that the next annual conference of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (a UK society) be on food, but no one else seemed very interested (which I felt to be odd, given the variety of issues involved and the richness of scriptural and theological resources for addressing it).<br /><br />I'm not sure I have many book byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.com