Health and Food

Swathes of land in the Sydney Basin could be set aside for farming and market gardens under a proposal the state government is considering to stem the loss of agriculture in outlying suburbs. Article Link: http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/call-to-set-aside-suburban-land-for-growing-of-food-20100516-v6fc.html

The first study to look at how climate change will affect food supplies offshore warns of severe declines in fish stocks in some of the world’s poorest regions. By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 October 2009 18.21 BST Article Link:

To fight poverty and overpopulation, crops need coaxing. Advances in deep-root food plants may trigger a new Green Revolution. Article Link:

PEOPLE who drink from their rainwater tanks may be consuming unacceptable levels of lead, a study says. Article Link:

A few days ago there was an odd juxtaposition of Yemen-related news. On the one hand, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the United States would double its military assistance to Yemen to about $150 million next year. That same day, the UN Refugee Agency warned that it faced a huge funding shortfall

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Nearly a fifth of the population in Chad will suffer food shortages this year, part of a broader hunger problem looming in the Sahel region, the United Nations said Thursday. Moumine Ngarmbassa Thu Feb 25, 2010 Article Link:

STATE capitals will have enough water even if the national population swells to 35 million by 2050 as predicted, but only if residents are prepared to change their lifestyles and pay bigger water bills. … Asa Wahlquist, Rural writer From: The Australian December 29, 2009 12:00AM Article Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/enough-water-to-cope-with-big-bang-in-population/story-e6frg6nf-1225814237192