GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Darfur, Promiscuity, Warren Buffett
6 Dec 2016
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As population begins to grow food production doesn"t necessarily follow the same pattern** will have population problems in asia and africa (africa is the greatest issue)******* Food security: food prices, availability, famine people- are buying economic , cultural, and technological value help determine what a natural resource is. As we become more biofuel friendly, places like brazil starts deforesting. Developed countries are selling food, developing- even though they have the land and. Aka as one becomes more sustainable we see lacking somewhere else. States exports 66 percent of the world"s corn but has been increasing the amount of its crop used for ethanol: prices of corn have increased more than 50 percent since last year. As a result, countries in europe began importing cheaper sorghum for livestock feed instead of corn. This, in turn, raised the price of sorghum, a grain widely consumed by the world"s poorest people: fuel prices, cause : rising fuel prices.
