Saturday, July 20, 2013

European Capacity to Grow Food Is Plateauing, Scientist Warns

Grain yield per hectare, like any biological growth process, cannot continue rising indefinitely. It has its limits,' said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Institute in Washington. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
"Scarcity is now the problem. We have real constraints in water, soil erosion and yields all coming on top of climate change. It is a convergence that we have never faced before."

European Capacity to Grow Food Is Plateauing, Scientist Warns

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