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posted June 7, 2004

Can we count on our food supply?

Harriet Friedmann, The Globe and Mail
Can we count on our food supply?

By HARRIET FRIEDMANN
Published: June 7, 2004
The Globe and Mail

Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute has once again warned of looming food scarcity: Measured against consumption, there's just 59 days' worth of grain, according to some reports. "The chances of farmers digging their way out of this hole are less than one in 10," he says.

This has been a refrain of environmentalists since the 1972 warning by Club of Rome scientists that finite resources in a growing world will lead to collapse. Does the recent series of poor harvests mean impending disaster?

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