Asia facing unprecedented food shortage, UN report says

Reuters by John Vidal | Aug. 17, 2009 (Special Report)
Major investment in irrigation systems needed to feed population expected to grow by 1.5 billion over next 40 years

But the extra 1.5 billion people expected to live on the continent by 2050 will double Asia's demand for food, says the report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank-funded International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 18, 2009

When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Water management is the wrong tool when the problem is overpopulation of the planet. The U.N. and the Guardian seem unwilling to face the core problem.

The world's ecosystem cannot sustain the current population, let alone the population growth envisioned.

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