FAO MODERATES POSITION ON LIVESTOCK ‘THREAT’
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has clearly had second thoughts on livestock production’s contribution to environmental degradation and climate change. In its report ‘Livestock’s Long...
View ArticleFAO TO TAKE SECOND LOOK AT MEAT EMISSIONS
World meat production is not the major contributor to green house gas emissions claimed by certain sectors of the green and vegetarian movements . Experts at The UN food and Agriculture Organisation...
View ArticleDOUBTFUL ENVIRONMENTAL GAIN FROM EU BIOFUELS POLICY
The European Union’s biofuels policy is an outstanding example of the working out of the so-called ‘law’ of unintended consequences. At the time of the biofuels policy’s birth, the advantages of...
View ArticleCLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY
Whatever governments may or may not agree on GHG emissions, the one thing that is likely is that average global temperatures will continue to rise. What is also likely is that the world’s food...
View ArticleEND OF THE BAD OLD ‘CAP’ ?
The end of what might be described as the bad old common agricultural policy based on expensively rigged markets was recently marked by what should be the final removal of export subsidies on...
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