Fertilizer
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These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.
They understood that the problem was not a lack of food per se, but a lack of
fertilizer
– then they figured out how to make endless amounts of
fertilizer.
The number-one component of any
fertilizer
is nitrogen, and the first of the two German researchers, Fritz Haber, discovered how to work the dangerous, complex chemistry needed to pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere – where it is abundant but useless for
fertilizer
– and turn it into a substance that can grow plants.
Even with a world population that continues to add tens of millions of new mouths every year, given continuing growth in Haber-Bosch
fertilizer
and a surprising trend toward a worldwide decline in birth rates (if you live about 50 years longer, according to the best estimates, you’ll see humanity reach zero population growth), it might be within humanity’s grasp to avoid mass starvation forever.
In past years, South Korea has been the primary external source of food, through either direct food assistance (for the immediate problem) or deliveries of
fertilizer.
But this year, with rising impatience and anger in South Korea toward the North Korean regime, the food and
fertilizer
is in doubt.
Rich countries should help African farmers use improved seed varieties, more fertilizer, and better water management, such as small-scale irrigation.
With fertilizer, improved seeds, small-scale irrigation, rapid training and extension services, and low-cost storage silos, Haiti’s food production could double or triple in the next few years, sustaining the country and building a new rural economy.
Another interviewee created a mobile app to help farmers connect with local seed and
fertilizer
suppliers.
With expanded meat consumption, soybean production alone would nearly double, implying a proportional increase in the use of inputs like land, fertilizer, pesticides, and water.
But it also includes choices made on a much smaller scale: farmers pondering which crops to plant, how much
fertilizer
to apply, and when and where to sell their produce.
These projects also help countries to harness and use waste flows, by converting sewage to biogas and
fertilizer.
Such initiatives foster the flow of resources into agriculture – both for the agribusinesses needed to feed Africa’s growing cities, and for smallholders who need better seeds, fertilizer, and market roads.
A shipment of an equivalent dollar amount of
fertilizer
and improved seeds from, say, the United States to Africa would yield perhaps five times more food.
Worldwide, our industrial agriculture system produces an estimated 14% of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions; including emissions indirectly linked to deforestation, and those associated with
fertilizer
production, increases that share to 24%.
If organizations like Rotary International can help African farmers to get a 50 kilogram bag of appropriate
fertilizer
and a 10 kilogram tin of improved seeds, the rise in farm output could be enough to relieve extreme hunger and help farm households begin to earn some income.
From nuclear-tipped missiles down to trucks full of
fertilizer
or explosives worn as belts, we have used our technology to amplify greatly the dark parts of our nature as a violent—and not even a properly predatory—species.
Yet, they typically work smaller, less productive plots of land than men, and often lack access to the best seeds, fertilizer, credit, and training opportunities.
Big data, GPS, drones, and high-speed communication have enabled improved extension services; optimized irrigation and pesticide and
fertilizer
use; provided early-warning systems; and enabled better quality control and more efficient logistics and supply-chain management.
Indeed, around 1950, the world seems to have reached a tipping point, with practically every factor that heightens humanity’s impact on the planet – population, GDP,
fertilizer
use, the proliferation of telephones, and paper consumption, to name only a few – beginning to increase rapidly.
The world needs an innovative, comprehensive strategy aimed at optimizing the entire food system – for example, by improving
fertilizer
and water use and food transportation and storage; by ensuring that adequate nutrition is accessible and affordable for all; and by changing communities’ eating habits to include less resource-intensive food.
Mobile money and price information also enable pastoralists to adjust herd sizes to changing environmental conditions, while enabling farmers to secure seeds and
fertilizer
for future harvests.
Over the longer term, more money for fertilizer, and other aid to promote self-sufficiency, is also essential.
Shortages of natural gas increased
fertilizer
prices, pushing up food prices.
The military owns airlines and freight companies, petrochemical factories, power generation plants, sugar mills, cement and
fertilizer
plants, construction firms, banks and insurance companies, advertising agencies, and more.
For starters, the lack of capital makes it difficult for women to buy quality seeds and fertilizer, or even to access farmland, which in turn reduces agricultural productivity.
Electricity has allowed us to irrigate fields and synthesize
fertilizer
from air.
Once again, Spain is proposing practical and innovative means to move from talk to action, specifically to help impoverished peasant farmers to get the tools, seeds, and
fertilizer
that they need to increase their farm productivity, incomes, and food security.
Likewise, more nitrogen
fertilizer
is applied in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems, and nitric-oxide production from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass also surpasses natural emissions.
Finding ways to use water, land, fertilizer, and labor more efficiently, and with minimal adverse impact, is essential to ecological sustainability.
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