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This sixteenth volume of Worldwatch's Vital Signs series makes it clear that climate change is both a growing driver of and an increasingly important motivator behind the world's leading economic, social, and environmental trends.
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Publisher
Island PressYear
2015eBook ISBN
9781610916691Subtopic
Environment & Energy PolicyNotes
GRAIN HARVEST SETS RECORD, BUT SUPPLIES STILL TIGHT
1. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), FAOSTAT Statistical Database, at faostat.fao.org, updated 30 June 2007; FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, No. 5 (Rome: October 2007). Harvest in 2007 is an estimate. This figure includes rice measured as “paddy” rather than the smaller “milled” figure in order to correspond with international convention.
2. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1; U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Grain: World Markets and Trade, October 2007 (Washington, DC: 2007).
3. FAO, FAOSTAT, op. cit. note 1.
4. Ibid.; U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base, electronic database (Suitland, MD: updated 16 July 2007).
5. FAO, FAOSTAT, op. cit. note 1; Census Bureau, op. cit. note 4.
6. FAO, FAOSTAT, op. cit. note 1.
7. Ibid.
8. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. FAO, FAOSTAT, op. cit. note 1.
12. Fertilizer from Patrick Heffer and Michel Prud’homme, Medium-Term Outlook for Global Fertilizer Demand, Supply and Trade 2007–2011: Summary Report, presented at 75th International Fertilizer Association Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 21–23 May 2007.
13. FAO, FAOSTAT, op. cit. note 1.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. USDA, FAS, Grain: World Markets and Trade, September 2007 (Washington, DC: 2007).
23. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1.
24. Ibid.
25. USDA, Production, Supply & Distribution, online database available at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 20 November 2007.
26. Ibid.
27. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1; USDA, op. cit. note 2.
28. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1.
29. Ibid.
30. USDA, op. cit. note 22.
31. Ibid.
32. FAO, “Wheat Prices Hit Record-high Levels,” press release (Rome: 5 October 2007).
33. FAO, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, op. cit. note 1.
34. Celia W. Dugger, “As Prices Soar, U.S. Food Aid Buys Less,” New York Times, 29 September 2007.
35. Ibid.
36. FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006 (Rome: 2006).
MEAT PRODUCTION CONTINUES TO RISE
1. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “Meat and Meat Products,” Food Outlook, June 2008.
2. FAO, Livestock’s Long Shadow, Environmental Issues and Options (Rome: 2007), p. xx.
3. Henning Steinfeld and Pius Chilonda, “Old Players, New Players,” in FAO, Livestock Report 2006 (Rome: 2006), p. 3.
4. FAO, op. cit. note 1.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. FAO, op. cit. note 3; FAO, op. cit. note 2.
17. FAO, FAOSTAT Statistical Database, at faostat.fao.org, updated 30 June 2007.
18. FAO, Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, The State of the World’sAnimal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Rome: 2007).
19. FAO, FAOSTAT Statistical Database, at faostat.fao.org, updated 24 January 2006; Compassion in World Farming, Laying Hens Fact Sheet, revised January 2004, at www.ciwf.org.uk/publications/Factsheets/Factsheet%20-%20Laying%20Hens%20.pdf.
20. M. Pollan, “The Life of a Steer,” New York Times, 31 March 2002.
21. World Bank, Managing the Livestock Revolution: Policy and Technology to Address the Negative Impacts of a Fast-Growing Sector (Washington, DC: 2005), p. 6.
22. Paul Brown et al., “Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease: Background, Evolution, and Current Concerns,” Emerging Infectious Diseases, January-February 2001, pp. 6–14; World Health Organization, “Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy,” fact sheet (Geneva: revised November 2002).
23. Margaret Mellon, Charles Benbrook, and Karen Lutz Benbrook, Hogging It! Estimates of Antimicrobial Abuse in Livestock (Washington, DC: Union of Concerned Scientists, 2001).
24. Ibid.
25. FAO, op. cit. note 2.
26. Ibid., p. xx.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. FAO, Pollution from Industrialized Livestock Production, Policy Brief 2 (Rome: Livestock Information, Sector Analysis, and Policy Branch, Animal Production and Health Division, undated).
30. Ibid.
31. L. Baroni et al., “Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Various Dietary Patterns Combined with Different Food Prodution Systems,” European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2007, pp. 279–86.
32. A. J. McMichael et al., “Food, Livestock Production, Energy, Climate Change, and Health,” The Lancet (Energy and Health Series), 6 October 2007, pp. 1253–63.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS ONLY A FRACTION OF PRIMARY GLOBAL CROP PRODUCTION
1. Clive James, Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2007, Brief 37 (Ithaca, NY: International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), 2007), p. 3. ISAAA is the o...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Worldwatch Institute Board of Directors
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Food and Agriculture Trends
- Energy and Transportation Trends
- Environment and Climate Trends
- Global Economy and Resources Trends
- Population and Society Trends
- Notes
- The Vital Signs Series
- The acclaimed series from Worldwatch Institute
- You Can Make a Difference