Posts tagged food security
Africa's Greatest Environmental Challenge -- Ever
ConservationBill LauranceAfrica, Sub-Saharan Africa, development corridors, African Development Bank, mining, agriculture, food security, population growth, Current Biology, roads, railroads, energy infrastructure, power lines, gas lines, colonization, poaching, hunting, deforestation, infrastructure, wildlife, elephant, fires
ALERT confronts US Ambassador about roads
Bill Lauranceroads, highways, road expansion, wilderness, deforestation, Kenneth Quinn, US ambassador, Congo Basin, Amazon Basin, New Guinea, Siberia, National Geographic, environmental impacts, rural communities, food security
Will new supercrops feed the world and help save nature?
Bill Laurancesupercrops, oil palm, palm oil, land sparing, deforestation, tropical forests, land-use planning, land zoning, agriculture, biofuels, global food demand, food security, tropical rainforests