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How To Grow Food In The Middle Of The Sahara

We humans are supposed to number about 7.8 billion by 2050. Feeding every one of those mouths demands food production in new, less-than-”optimal” areas. Like the Sahara. And if these monstrous irrigations work there, they can work virtually anywhere.

January 28, 2011
Science

Terraforming Maui: The Hawaiian Sugar Industry’s Technological Revolution

Claus Spreckels, successful sugar refiner and capitalist, had already revolutionised the process of cubing sugar when he set about reorganising Maui’s dry plains into lush tracts of cane. This is how he modernised Hawaiian sugar production and monopolised its distribution.

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