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	<description>Famine in the West by 2025?</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Soil - our most precious Resource</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/05/soil-our-most-precious-resource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intact harvesting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nutrients]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[soil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[soil erosion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[soil health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Soon, we will need to move from an oil economy to a bio-economy if we are to fight the challenges of climate change and oil depletion. So, as we devise methods to obtain much more of our energy from the sun mainly via the original solar panel-the plant leaf, it is vital that we do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Storm</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/04/the-perfect-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/04/the-perfect-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the UK it appears we now have a chief government scientist who is saying the things we at Peakfood have been saying for the past 3 years.
Professor John Beddington, who is an expert on the sustainable use of renewable resources, addressed environmental groups and politicians at a Westminster conference last month and told of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change &#8216; Even worse Than Feared&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/climate-change-even-worse-than-feared/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/climate-change-even-worse-than-feared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate summit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office told Sky News Online that even with drastic cuts in emissions in the next 10 years, their results predict that there will only be around a 50% chance of keeping global temperature rises below 2c.
Many scientists have warned in the past that anything above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Britian Feed Itself?</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/can-britian-feed-itself/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/can-britian-feed-itself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peak Food is pleased to report that Britain&#8217;s food security is being more widely questioned.  Recently Dr. Rob McCall, who is the Climate Change Officer for the Countryside Council for Wales, gave  a talk at entitled &#8216;Can Britian Feed Itself?&#8217; 
Excellent work, Dr. McCall!  I wish I had been there to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Hoskins - A Farm for the Future</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/rebecca-hoskins-a-farm-for-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/rebecca-hoskins-a-farm-for-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fossil fuel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[meat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[permaculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Heinberg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/03/rebecca-hoskins-a-farm-for-the-future/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent documentary on BBC2 by Rebecca Hoskins was very informative about the way farming and food is dependent on finite fossil fuel. The interview with Richard Heinberg was excellent as he was able to explain how perilous the situation is and how urgent is the need for sustainable solutions.
Rebecca’s conclusion that we would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Food Author John Gossop in Yorkshire Post</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/peak-food-author-john-gossop-in-yorkshire-post/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/peak-food-author-john-gossop-in-yorkshire-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Food in the News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Gossop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peak Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yorkshire Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Yorkshire Post printed the article below about Peak Food author, John Gossop.


Modernisation is the key to sustainability in farming

Published Date: 28 February 2009

FARMERS must modernise their methods to contend with the twin threats of climate change and depleted fossil fuel supplies, a leading Yorkshire campaigner has warned.
In more than 40 years as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biogas from Waste</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/biogas-from-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/biogas-from-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anaerobic digestion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[biogas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakfood.co.uk/?p=630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has the government at last realised that it is crazy not to extract value from so called waste?
At the moment the UK produces over 12 million tons of food waste each year, most of which ends up in expensive landfill. In addition, animal manures are often treated as a nuisance at intesive livestock units.
Speaking at the National Farmers Union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change Pace exceeds Estimates</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/climate-change-pace-exceeds-estimates/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/climate-change-pace-exceeds-estimates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakfood.co.uk/?p=576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution&#8217;s Departtment of Global Ecology at Stanford University and a member of the IPCC, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said, &#8220;We are basically looking now at a future climate that&#8217;s beyond anything we&#8217;ve considered seriosly in climate model simulations.&#8221;
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food v fuel debate -  biorefineries can give us both</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/food-v-fuel-debate-biorefineries-can-give-us-both/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/food-v-fuel-debate-biorefineries-can-give-us-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[competition from biofuels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakfood.co.uk/?p=574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been much heated debate about using good cropland to grow biofuel . Many people believe that this will push up the price of food while others believe that it is essential for the west to grow biofuels to make us less dependent on imported oil and also to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
So far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Stream at risk from Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/gulf-stream-at-risk-from-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/02/gulf-stream-at-risk-from-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[termninology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakfood.co.uk/?p=307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the ‘Global Ocean Conveyor Belt’, a series of giant ocean currents that flow around the earth, the Gulf stream carries vast quantities of warm Atlantic water northward giving Europe and parts of North America a temperate climate. The amount of heat involved is phenomenal, estimated by Stephen Rahmstorf, an oceanographer at Germany’s Potsdam [...]]]></description>
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