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                    [Title] => Why current food systems are not sustainable
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There are at least five reasons why our current food systems are not sustainable.


First, the increasingly mechanized agriculture depends on oil, but the supply of soil is beginning to run out, and oil demand from China, India and other developing countries which are industrializing fast is rising so sharply that production cannot keep up with demand, and permanent shortages of oil will kick in within a decade or less.


                    [DatePublished] => 2006-07-23 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1096447
                    [AuthorName] =>  Antonio M. Claparols
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Why current food systems are not sustainable

By Antonio M. Claparols | July 23, 2006 - 12:00am

There are at least five reasons why our current food systems are not sustainable. First, the increasingly mechanized agriculture depends on oil, but the supply of soil is beginning to run out, and oil demand...

Agriculture