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American Chemical Society launches Sustainable Food toolkit
As the world’s population swells beyond 10 billion people later this century, what can we do to sustain the farmland, energy and water supplies needed to keep everyone fed? That’s the challenging question that Sustainable Food, a web-based toolkit, addresses with an anchor video and dozens of resources. The toolkit is a project of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society.
“We basically have to double the amount of food we produce over the next 50 to 60 years,” says John Floros, Ph.D, in the anchor video, called Feeding the World. “The question is, can we do that, and how should we do it?”
Floros, dean of the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University, explains that several issues must be addressed to provide the world with enough food. Farmers must adapt to a changing environment. Food is wasted because it spoils during transport or people buy too much. Science and technology can help, but educating the public about these issues is also important.
The website’s resources include links to ACS press releases; congressional briefings; news articles published in Chemical & Engineering News, the ACS’ weekly newsmagazine; videos; podcasts; and social media posts on Twitter and blogs.
Sustainable Food is one of five such toolkits now available online. Journalists covering some of the great global challenges of the 21st century and federal funding of research and development (R&D) can find videos and scores of other resources on websites that the ACS has prepared on those topics:
The other toolkits address global climate science, sustainable sources of energy, the quest for a sustainable supply of fresh water and federal R&D funding.
Provided by American Chemical Society
8 Comments on "American Chemical Society launches Sustainable Food toolkit"
J-Gav on Fri, 10th Jan 2014 3:58 pm
The PTB don’t want sustainable food availability. They want to corner the means for its GMO distribution to be concentrated in the hands of a few mega-corporations. As Kissinger said, going beyond the traditional geopolitical spatial dominance theories: “He who controls the food supply, controls the world.”
Kenz300 on Fri, 10th Jan 2014 5:29 pm
Quote — ““We basically have to double the amount of food we produce over the next 50 to 60 years,” says John Floros, Ph.D, in the anchor video, called Feeding the World. “The question is, can we do that, and how should we do it?”
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OR we could reduce population growth.
Endless population growth is not sustainable and will only lead to more poverty, suffering and despair.
DC on Fri, 10th Jan 2014 6:23 pm
Do these guys mean ‘sustainable subsidized industrial-chemical ag?’ Or do they mean sustainable sustainable?
Twin Performance on Fri, 10th Jan 2014 6:57 pm
Another example of a fine idea. if we can give away these toolkits to folk, then we can charge them for the growth chems, we can form a relationship, pay or starve. USA USA USA
GregT on Fri, 10th Jan 2014 7:02 pm
“OR we could reduce population growth.”
OR, we can keep pretending that we will be able to double food production over the next 50 to 60 years, and let nature take care of our population problem. Which, I suspect, is precisely what we are going to do. I doubt very much that nature is going to wait that long though. I give her less than 20 years before she says ‘enough is enough’.
Makati1 on Sat, 11th Jan 2014 8:16 am
Mother Nature has the cure … and we will soon see it personally. Be Patient.
rollin on Sun, 12th Jan 2014 4:29 am
Just what we need, more industrial coatings and modifications to our food supply. Aren’t we trying to get away from chemicals in and on our food?
J.R. on Sun, 12th Jan 2014 6:22 pm
“As the world’s population swells beyond 10 billion people later this century, what can we do to sustain the farmland, energy and water supplies needed to keep everyone fed?”
Uh, stop breeding?
Why keep promoting MORE people? This is just stupid beyond belief.
Already, 7+ billion (and their corporate masters) have trashed the Earth – atmosphere, soil, forests, waterways, oceans, virtually every place on Earth is now being impacted.
There have been some published studies proving this fact. Even deep-sea trenches and extremely remote regions show the negative impact of human-kind.
So why try to support more of us? This can only have one possible conclusion, and the evidence is all around us now.
There is nothing we can do to “sustain the farmland” either. The land sustain us – it is NOT the other way around.
It is this sort of thinking that demonstrates just how utterly mistaken authors really are about these issues.