| |
VK2AAB > FOOD 01.03.07 00:20l 38 Lines 1783 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 36221_VK2AAB
Read: DL7VBE GUEST DK7NR
Subj: Food Production in EU at Risk
Path: DB0FHN<DB0MRW<DK0WUE<F4BWT<IW2OAZ<ZL2BAU<VK2DOT<VK2XGJ<VK2IO<VK2AAB
Sent: 070228/2156Z @:VK2AAB.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC #:36221 [SYDNEY] FBB7.00i
From: VK2AAB@VK2AAB.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC
To : FOOD@WW
For your information:
UK Euro MP Launches Report on 'The impact of peak oil on food security'
Green Euro MP Caroline Lucas launched a new report, FUELLING A FOOD CRISIS
- The impact of peak oil on food security, late December to highlight
how dependent current food production systems are on oil products, and
suggests steps to end this dependence before we have no choice.
From the report Press Release:
http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk/news/PeakOilFood_191206.htm
<<DWINDLING oil stocks and EU trade and
energy policies threaten food price hikes - and could cause the UK to
be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second
World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.
The report calls on the Government to establish a Royal Commission on
Food Security to examine the issue - and for the UK 's Competition
Commission to consider its findings in its ongoing investigation of
the supermarkets' dominance of the food retailing sector.
Fuelling a Food Crisis examines the dependence of the EU's food supplies
on oil - for production, processing and transport - and concludes
that food prices are becoming increasingly linked with those of oil,
and therefore more exposed to the price volatility of the energy sector...
The report warns that we must change energy, trade and agriculture
policies at an EU level if we are to avoid a food crisis precipitated
by 'Peak Oil' - the point at which half of global oil production has
been consumed, and beyond which extraction goes into irreversible
decline, and prices rise accordingly... >>
http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk/publications/pdfs_and_word/Fuelling%20a%20fo%
od20crisis%20FINAL%20Dec06.pdf
73 Barry VK2AAB
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
