Energy Crisis and Its Effect on Agriculture
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dale Allen Pfeiffer |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1550923765 |
A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture — and appropriate responses The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the US show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources. Eating Fossil Fuels examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings: The world-wide expansion of agriculture has appropriated fully 40% of the photosynthetic capability of this planet. The Green Revolution provided abundant food sources for many, resulting in a population explosion well in excess of the planet's carrying capacity. Studies suggest that without fossil fuel based agriculture, the US could only sustain about two thirds of its present population. For the planet as a whole, the sustainable number is estimated to be about two billion. Concluding that the effect of energy depletion will be disastrous without a transition to a sustainable, relocalized agriculture, the book draws on the experiences of North Korea and Cuba to demonstrate stories of failure and success in the transition to non-hydrocarbon-based agriculture. It urges strong grassroots activism for sustainable, localized agriculture and a natural shrinking of the world's population. Dale Allen Pfeiffer is a novelist, freelance journalist and geologist who has been writing about energy depletion for a decade. The author of The End of the Oil Age, he is also widely known for his web project: www.survivingpeakoil.com.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maurice Lévy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351392670 |
Originally published in 1984, this volume examines the consequences of increasing energy prices on agricultural production. It discusses whether it is possible to use agriculture to produce energy without endangering the food supply for the highly populated areas of the devloping world. Analyzing the global consquences of the 'food energy nexus' at the turn of the millenium it asks whether there will be a good crisis in those same developing countries which have suffered from the energy crisis. The editors and contributors are high-level specialists of global modelling in energy and agriculture and decision makers involved in food and agriculture planning in the developing world.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |