>Does anyone have an idea of the percentage of world >wide food production that is dependent on oil and gas? >James
Hello James Difficult question to answer. Even getting a good handle on world wide food production itself isn't that easy. There are figures of course, but often they turn out to mean not quite what they seemed to mean. Would you class mainstream grain production as "food", even though most of it's fed to livestock, or would just the livestock products be food, or both? How about the maize that gets turned into high-fructose corn syrup and scattered throughout the industrialised processed food supply? Is that food? Or soy that's grown for the seedcake, also livestock feed, while the by-product, the oil, becomes food, or some of it does? Complicated. If "food" is what people actually eat, then there are a great many people who depend on food production that doesn't appear in the production figures, like the very large numbers fed by city farms for instance (which have little or nothing to do with oil and gas). See: http://journeytoforever.org/cityfarm.html City farms http://journeytoforever.org/cityfarm_link.html Resources for city farms Subsistence farms also often get left out, or they lie about their production (if they have any sense, which they do). Food security data gives a better idea of this than production figures do. There are a couple of approaches I can think of. I'd like to know that answer too, and if I checked it out I could nail down a few other things I'd like to know, or like to know better. I'll try to have a look at it in the next few days. Any other views would be most welcome. Best wishes Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
