Biofuels, food security, and Africa

Biofuels and food security

[Biofuels, food security and transgenic crops].

Soaring global food prices are threatening to push more poor people back below the poverty line; this will probably become aggravated by the serious challenge that increasing population and climate changes are posing for food security. There is growing evidence that human activities involving fossil fuel consumption and land use are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and consequently chan...

Climate change, biofuels, and global food security

The Ripple Effect: Biofuels, Food Security, and the Environment

Fish Supply and Food Security for Africa

Aquaculture development in Africa has lagged far behind that seen in Asia. It currently produces less than 5% of Africa's fish. Over the past decade, however, growing demand, the availability of suitable technologies and growing capacity has produced aquaculture success stories in several countries. In Egypt, for example, aquaculture production has grown 10 fold since the 1990s. In Uganda produ...