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Shortage of phosphate causes large food problem
Shortage of phosphate causes large food problem
07 October 2009 DUTCH PRESS AGENCY THE HAGUE - the food production in the world comes in danger by running out phosphate, a very important component for fertilizers. That stands in a recommendation of a group of minister Gerda Verburg (LNV). The growing world population can only be fed if it succeeds to make recycle phosphate . Much phosphate goes lost at the extraction, in agriculture . Only very limits part is recovered and the bulk finishes on the ocean floor. Experts fear that the winbare quantities will be over in 75 years . The world will depend on: Morocco and the western Sahara, and China. The wheel group wants that the Netherlands puts the problem high on the agenda of the FAO (world food organisation) and World Bank.
http://www.nd.nl/artikelen/2009/okto...oedselprobleem
07 October 2009 DUTCH PRESS AGENCY THE HAGUE - the food production in the world comes in danger by running out phosphate, a very important component for fertilizers. That stands in a recommendation of a group of minister Gerda Verburg (LNV). The growing world population can only be fed if it succeeds to make recycle phosphate . Much phosphate goes lost at the extraction, in agriculture . Only very limits part is recovered and the bulk finishes on the ocean floor. Experts fear that the winbare quantities will be over in 75 years . The world will depend on: Morocco and the western Sahara, and China. The wheel group wants that the Netherlands puts the problem high on the agenda of the FAO (world food organisation) and World Bank.
http://www.nd.nl/artikelen/2009/okto...oedselprobleem
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