Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
2013-02-05 Richard Moore Bcc: FYI rkm website: http://cyberjournal.org ___________________________________ http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2012/update110 . Despite warnings from researchers and some farmers, history repeated itself in the Soviet Virgin Lands Project in the 1950s to early 1960s. Some 100 million acres (40 million hectares) of grassland were plowed under in Russia, Kazakhstan, and western Siberia during Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s push … Read more