Despite intense news coverage of issues surrounding the U.S. southern border, it is rare to see headlines about the energy policy of Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Nonetheless, much as in other regions, energy is a major concern inextricably tied to economic well-being. Poverty remains pervasive in Mexico and various countries to its…
Mexico and South America Must Tap Fossil Fuels to Fight Poverty — CO2 Coalition
Hunger
Re-examining 10 science-challenged ‘studies’ suggesting GMOs are harmful — Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: Green activist alarmism is starving drought-stricken Africa — Genetic Literacy Project
Part II: Can Uganda and Kenya become Africa’s hub for crop biotechnology innovation? — Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: Not a single peer-reviewed study supports the EU’s politically-induced pesticide bans — Why Africa should avoid the disastrous restrictions imposed and then rescinded by Sri Lanka — Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: With two decades of resounding GMO maize success, South Africa offers lessons on food security for the rest of the continent — Genetic Literacy Project
African countries in the south of the Sahara have a lot to learn from South Africa’s successes in Genetically Modified (GM) plant agriculture. The southern African country appears poised for significant triumphs in its quest for greater food security, thanks to its embrace of agricultural biotechnology. [newsletter] Its adoption of Bt white maize in 2001-2002 […]
Viewpoint: With two decades of resounding GMO maize success, South Africa offers lessons on food security for the rest of the continent — Genetic Literacy Project
Africa cracks down on ravenous locust swarms by ignoring Greenpeace’s anti-pesticide rhetoric — Genetic Literacy Project
Global Crop projections break records again
Wheat [image credit: Phys.org]
Habitual climate miserablists should take a look around at the real world now and again. This year’s poor UK wheat harvest, reported by the BBC with a ‘climate change’ tag, looks like the exception not the rule.
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The International Grains Council (IGC) is reporting that global corn, wheat, and rice production is on pace to set new records this year, destroying an incessant parade of media claims that global warming is devastating crop production.
Here at Climate Realism, we have documented and debunked many of the ridiculous media claims that climate change is decimating crop production, some in the last month.
Global crop production, as well as crop production in most of the world’s nations, sets new records virtually every year as our planet modestly warms.
Now, the IGC reports – unsurprisingly – that the same is happening in 2020.
The online agriculture news service, World-Grain.com published a story, “IGC projects record output for corn, wheat and soybeans,” highlighting the findings of the International Grains Council (IGC), that it expects the harvest of key cereal crops, corn, rice, soybeans, and wheat, which are the core staple crops for many peoples around the world, to set records in 2020.
Full article here.
