“Land degradation is costing the world as much as $10.6 trillion every year, equivalent to 17% of global gross domestic product, a report has warned.”
http://www.eld-initiative.org/fileadmin/pdf/ELD-main-report_05_web_72dpi.pdf
US agricultural policy, land use change, and biofuels: are we driving our way to the next dust bowl?
“US biofuel policy is intended to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by the US transportation sector. However, the extent of cropland expansion found by Lark et al. suggests that measures like RFS2 are actually accruing an unintended, but substantial, carbon debt.”
-Christopher K Wright, Environmental Research Letters, Volume 10, Number 5
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/051001
Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops, N Y Times
“An analysis by The Times using United Nations data showed that the United States and Canada have gained no discernible advantage in yields — food per acre — when measured against Western Europe, a region with comparably modernized agricultural producers like France and Germany. ”
The scientific report guiding the US dietary guidelines: is it scientific?
BMJ (formerly ‘The British Medical Journal’)
http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4962
There’s a growing body of evidence that butter is actually good for you
Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)
-BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal )
http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
