Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Subscribe to our channel Follow us on Stumble Submit to reddit Subscribe
Choke Point China, part II
Food Industry
A canal fed by the Liaohe River is seen near Xinmin, Liaoning, China on Sept 26, 2012.

Pollution is a major driver of water scarcity in China, especially in the places where economic growth is the highest and water resources are under the most stress — China’s dry northern breadbaskets and its biggest manufacturing hubs in the south and east.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Mario Batalli - Conservancy

The dirty truth about the world’s largest grain producer.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
China's Major Grains Map

Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, has shifted its bread baskets to the north.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
farmer-thumb

The northeast region of China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, is among the world’s most important breadbaskets.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
China's Major Grains Map

Rich land, ample water, and human persistence have turned virgin prairie into the primary breadbasket for China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy that is pursuing grain production with a single-minded purpose.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
cow

The U.S. farm sector, more productive and richer than ever, is a major water polluter.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
JGanter_grasslands_dune_JG3_2174

New project finds that building the world’s fastest-growing economy risks public safety and tests global resource limits.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Infographic: Apalachicola Oysters

How do freshwater flows — or lack thereof — affect the marine life downstream?

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Yeager_swiftslough1000604

The drought that set upon the United States this year has tightened a three-state tug-of-war over fresh water, affecting marine life and a valuable fishing economy downstream in the Deep South’s Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, the most biodiverse river system in North America.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
monsoon

Monsoon rainfall is 14 percent below average in India, which depends on rainwater to feed more than 50 percent of its agricultural land.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Droughts Hit World’s Agricultural Regions: Without Water, U.S. Corn Crop Faces Setbacks

Droughts have struck food-producing regions in the United States, Russia, China, North Korea, and South Korea, raising the prospect of higher commodity prices and localized food shortages.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Land Grabs, Agriculture, Agriculture as an Investment, Farmland Investment

GRAIN’s online database is the foundation for much of what the world knows about foreign investments in land. Though the majority of “land grabs” are for agribusiness, other sectors include construction, finance, industry, real estate, and more.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
A South American drought keeps global grain reserves tight, but it could mean good things for North American corn producers.

Favorable weather and prices, driven up by growing global demand and a series of droughts, have combined to push U.S. corn production to a new high — but retail food costs are not expected to drop.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
slideshow-australia-thumb

An overview of Australia’s Hunter Valley, traditionally known for its vineyards but more recently as a hydrocarbon center.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Soaring global demand for coal has transformed the Hunter Valley farming region — which also boasts some of Australia’s best wine valleys — into a global hydrocarbon center. Like many other farmers in the region, John Cruickshank has a hard time finding the labor force he needs to nurse his vines into wine since he cannot compete with the lucrative high salaries paid by the mining industry.

Farmers and small town residents grapple with the pressures of an unprecedented expansion in coal mining.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
AAJ_2011-12-12_ChokePointAustralia-_329-(1)

The scale and rapid development of the nation’s coal seam gas industry is changing the social fabric of the country’s small towns and farming regions, which have become protest centers.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Australia Liverpool Plains Mullaley New South Wales farm farmers irrigation food production drought energy coal seam gas water supply

Rural culture and the industrial economy are at odds.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
JCG-IMG_8703

After the 20-week public consultations ended last week, three key basin states have rejected the proposed plan, and more than 60 Australian academics have slammed the document for neglecting to include climate change projections and for its lack of transparency.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Sahel drought

An estimated 10 million people are struggling with growing food shortages in Burkina Faso, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, which have all declared emergencies and appealed for international assistance. Aid agencies and governments are now bracing to reach remote communities before the situation deteriorates into a famine.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
water-law-logo

This is the second time the court has promoted the mega-project that would link the major rivers in the north with those in the south as a way to better manage water, moving it from areas of perceived surplus to areas without sufficient supplies.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...