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	<description>Famine in the West by 2025?</description>
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		<title>The World at Peak Food</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/01/the-world-at-peak-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For European farmers, the last few years have seen remarkable fluctuations in profitability. When IACS was first introduced, payments were supposed to compensate us for being exposed to lower world prices. But for a few years (because world prices were high) we managed both the payments and the high prices. Of course, it couldn’t last, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed loss = Energy waste</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/01/seed-loss-energy-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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growth of seeds lost previous year

This photo shows weed seed return. What a waste of energy!   There are so many threats to future food production that we need to be working now on ways of reducing this waste.   The Intact Harvester is one answer.   See our intact harvesting videos or the page on our site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Food from Oil mistake</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/01/the-food-from-oil-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Survivors of the catastrophe that will soon decimate the world population if nothing is done will be astonished that such a fundamental mistake could have been made. The mistake was to believe that we could use a finite and unreliable resource (fossil fuel) to supply an infinite need (food) in ever larger quantities
An incredibly serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Weather makes Food Supplies even tighter</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/01/extreme-weather-makes-food-supplies-even-tighter/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/01/extreme-weather-makes-food-supplies-even-tighter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As well as floods in Britain and India, there are now floods in Nabraska and northern Illinois.
Weather related production problems have also hit China, mainland Europe and the Black Sea region. This couldn’t have come at a worse time as grain carry over stocks are extremely low and will plainly go even lower. Experts say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Crunch threatens the Environment</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/11/credit-crunch-threatens-the-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy makers are now giving priority to the credit crisis that is threatening to push the whole world in to recession. They feel that the great problems of climate change, resource depletion and food security are less urgent but this could lead to disaster as less government and bank funding is available for sustainable projects.

Already, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fertility and Peak Food</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/05/fertility-and-peak-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the world tries to grow more food and biofuels, the problem of raising the availability of inputs becomes clearer.

Last year I bought nitrogen fertiliser in July for £145/tonne with payment the following January. Yesterday I was told that I would be allowed just 70% of last years tonnage at £330/tonne with payment in 28 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Peak Oil &#8211; Peak Food link</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/04/the-peak-oil-peak-food-link-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/04/the-peak-oil-peak-food-link-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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There are many reasons why food production cannot keep up with population growth in the medium and long term such as loss of land, water shortages, improved diets and the use of cropland for biofuel production; but a real problem is modern farming’s huge dependence on finite resources including oil and gas.
There is of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water shortages and Peak Food</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/03/water-shortages-and-peak-food-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is becoming short of many things as a rising and more affluent population demands more of everything.

Water is in a class of it’s own when it comes to the things we can’t manage without. We need it for drinking, growing food, industry and household use.
An estimated 1 billion people do not have access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Climate Change or Peak Oil cause Peak Food?</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/03/will-climate-change-or-peak-oil-cause-peak-food/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/03/will-climate-change-or-peak-oil-cause-peak-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many threats to food production that are discussed in our book,”Famine in the West”, but most people think that the biggest threats are climate change and peak oil, the time when oil production peaks and then begins a fairly rapid decline in the face of greater demand.
Climate change will bring much more unreliable weather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Peak Food already here?</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/02/is-peak-food-already-here/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/02/is-peak-food-already-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our book “Famine in the West”  was written during the early months of 2007 and events have moved quickly in the short time since then.

Wheat prices have doubled over the past year and other grains, legumes and oilseeds have risen by at least 50%. This causes people to ask,
“Are the severe food shortages forecast in [...]]]></description>
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