World will need 70 percent more food in 2050: FAO
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090923/ts_afp/farmfaofood_20090923172218 http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Ban-Ki-moon/photo//090923/photos_ts_wl_afp/97540fa72198cf510fb636c097c77547//s:/afp/20090923/ts_afp/farmfaofood_20090923172218
1) Experts say by 2050 our population will be up to 9.1 billion people and we must increase food by 70 percent.
2)Today we have an estimated 6.8 billion and will gro to 9.1 billion in 2050, "FAO is cautiously optimistic about the world's potential to feed itself by 2050," said FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem.
3)Everyone must increase production to feed the population by 2050.
4) FACT:Cereal production will have to increase by almost a billion tonnes from 2.1 billion today and meat production will have to grow by more than 200 million tonnes to reach a total of 470 million tonnes in 2050.:FACT
Over 30s are most fertile, as birth rates increase
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/clinical-subjects/midwifery/over-30s-are-most-fertile-as-birth-rates-increase/5006691.article
1)The Office for National Statistics conducted a research in England and Whales are counting the number of live births per head with age groups.
2)In 2007 there were 690,013 babies being born but, it has now increased to 708,708 this year. FACT: The highest since 1973 which was 1.95 :FACT
3)every 1,000 women age 15 to 44, there are 63.5 live births.
4)every 1,000 women age 30 to 34, there are 112.3 live births.
5) age of women having kids have increased to 29.3 since 2007 and fertility rate has also raised.
Getting Out the Anti-Globalization Message
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/getting-out-the-anti-globalization-message/?hp
1) People are having a anti-Globalization protests in Pittsburgh
2) Borack Obama is the host
3) many people participatng many preparing and seems like many are going to be there.
*Couldnt get video* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwSjDxcyg-I&feature=player_embedded
4)"In Pittsburgh, the American Civil Liberties Union has also been keeping a running report of complaints from protest groups about police harassment, illegal seizures and preemptive arrests. In the same vein, protest groups have interviewed people from the scene where organizers claim to have been harassed, and have set up their own legal help hotline."
Friday, September 25, 2009
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