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Feeding the World | |
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This BBC World Service series investigates the growing but often under-reported challenges facing the world's food supply. Global warming, soil erosion and a world population that is set to grow by a further two and half billion in the next 30 years are just some of the pressures that could undermine the current state of relative abundance. | |
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The BBC's World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle begins by charting the recent history of food production. The so-called "Green Revolution" of the 1960s and ’70s transformed Asian and Latin American crop yields. Today in India some of the less-sustainable technologies that made that revolution possible, like heavy use of pesticides and deep-well irrigation, are beginning to take their toll. |
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The BBC’s Mark Doyle looks at another new challenge, the advent of biofuels such as ethanol. Most of this supposedly "green" fuel is made from crops that would otherwise go towards feeding people or livestock. Some experts are anticipating a major supply crunch as the oil companies start to compete for agricultural land. This could cause global prices of grains to spiral, and leave many food-importing regions like North Africa and the Middle East suddenly struggling for their staples. |
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| Check back soon to listen to Mark Doyle’s investigation on the way we eat food and its effect on the global food supply. |
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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