STWR - Share The World's Resources

6th November 07 - Oxfam Report

EU plans to increase the use of biofuels could spell disaster for some of the world’s poorest people warns international agency, Oxfam in a new briefing.

28th October 07, The Hindu

Seeking a five-year moratorium on use of bio-fuels, an independent United Nations human rights expert has warned that the effect of converting staple foods into fuels would be "absolutely catastrophic" for the poor nations which import food.

19th October 07, David Cronin, Inter Press Service

Europe is undermining its own efforts to strengthen African agriculture by foisting free trade on the continent, a Ghanaian farm leader has complained.

18th October 07 - John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus

According to Suetonius, courtiers once collected special flavors for the famous banquets of the Roman emperors “in every corner of the Empire from the Parthian frontier to the Straits of Gibraltar.” The Chinese emperors, too, demanded a succession of unusual and exotic treats from distant lands opened up by the Silk Road. Today, this tradition still lives on, fitfully, in North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s requests for Czech beer and Italian pizza.

10th October 07 - Sam Burcher, Peopleandplanet.net

The organic food movement has received endorsement from the United Nations leading agency on food and agriculture, the FAO. In a new report, it says that organic farming fights hunger, tackles climate change, and is good for farmers, consumers and the environment.

24th September 07 - Peter Goodchild, EnergyBulletin.net

The decline in the world’s oil supply offers no sudden dramatic event that would appeal to the writer of “apocalyptic” science fiction: no mushroom clouds, no flying saucers, no giant meteorites. The future will be just like today, only tougher. Oil depletion is basically just a matter of overpopulation — too many people and not enough resources.