# food production (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover food production. Page: Feed: --- ## [The UK needs to build more reservoirs](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/uk-reservoirs) _2026-08-18 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ We haven't built any in my lifetime, despite population growth and a changing climate. ## [Tracking global food production through a record El Niño](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/tracking-global-food-usda) _2026-08-14 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ An interactive tool to explore historical data on food production, and updated forecasts from the USDA. ## [Food Systems and the Coming Climacteric](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/food-systems-and-the-coming-climacteric) _2026-08-04 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ Reimagining Food, Land, and the Future ## [Is Europe having a bad wildfire year?](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/europe-wildfires-2026) _2026-08-02 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ Several countries in Europe are having a very large wildfire year; this is offset by lower burn in the Balkans ## [Thailand’s population has already peaked](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/thailand-peak-population) _2026-07-23 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ My colleague, Edouard Mathieu, recently created an interactive map showing when the populations of countries around the world are expected to peak. ## [My book — Clearing the Air — is coming out in paperback in September](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/clearing-the-air-paperback-preorder) _2026-07-21 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ And this week you can get 25% off in the UK. ## [Cultivating Biosphere Consciousness: Turning Grief into Action](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/cultivating-biosphere-consciousness) _2026-06-30 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ For years I have written about planetary boundaries, biodiversity loss, and the environmental consequences of food production. ## [How much deforestation is your country importing through trade?](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/deforestation-trade) _2026-06-24 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ An interactive tool to explore deforestation flows across the world. ## [How quickly do electric car sales translate into cars on the road?](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ev-fleet-transition) _2026-06-12 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ And other insights from the electric car rollout in 2025. ## [Do more Europeans die of summer heat than Americans die of guns?](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-america-europe) _2026-05-28 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ An attempt to improve a viral chart. ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dyyKGtZZP5xw) _2026-05-28 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [Biogeochemical Breakdown: Food Systems, Dead Zones, and the Lessons of Mass Extinction](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/biogeochemical-breakdown-food-systems) _2026-05-27 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ The modern food system is one of the least circular large-scale systems humans have ever created. ## [What will future population change look like?](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/population-simulation-tool) _2026-05-19 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ A new tool that let's you imagine different futures of where we might be headed ## [How much electricity does AI consume? \[2025 summary\]](https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-electricity-2025) _2026-05-05 · Hannah Ritchie · By the Numbers_ What share of electricity is consumed by data centres? What's the energy footprint of ChatGPT and other chatbots? ## [Who Controls Our Food?](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/who-controls-our-food) _2026-04-28 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ Market Power, Prices, and the Planet ## [Cheap Food, Expensive Consequences](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/cheap-food-expensive-consequences) _2026-03-25 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ The Hidden Costs of What We Eat ## [Food For a Sustainable Future](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/food-for-a-sustainable-future-901) _2026-02-24 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ February 2026 Monthly Newsletter ## [Food and Biosphere Integrity](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/food-and-biosphere-integrity) _2026-02-24 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ How Food Systems Are Driving, and Can Solve, Biodiversity Collapse ## [The System Feeding Us Is Failing — Now What?](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/the-system-feeding-us-is-failing) _2026-02-24 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ This article is the first of a series that explores the systems behind our food. ## [Food for a Sustainable Future](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/food-for-a-sustainable-future) _2026-01-22 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ January 2026 Monthly Newsletter ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RHTXJHJ4XPKw) _2026-01-22 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [How Food Was Kept at the Margins of COP Climate Talks](https://foodforasustainablefuture.substack.com/p/how-food-was-kept-at-the-margins) _2026-01-21 · Steven Disla · Food for a Sustainable Future_ For most of the history of the UN climate negotiations, food systems were treated as peripheral, if considered at all.