Food Security

Globalization, food security and sovereignty: Is European business ready to stand up?

Food has always been one of the main sources of concern for humanity. Even now, despite the fact that the world is moving forward with resolving food issues, the problems of food security and sovereignty remain in all corners of the planet, including Europe: about half a million people there do not have regular and sufficient access to food. Are European food producers ready to solve the problem?

Peak phosphorus and food security: time to fact-check

In 2007, Patrick Dery, an analyst from Quebec, sent his paper on phosphate reserves to Energy Bulletin’s reporter and technical writer, Bart Anderson. Soon after, ‘Peak Phosphorus’ was received by the wider scientific community. The collaborators suggested that the world would soon be going hungry. Yet another apocalyptic scenario for the public to swallow: there was just one question – was it true?