strachan report, page-18

Adam

If you do some research on world growth you will see that population growth has slowed a little but food intake has increased, this is because of rising of BRIC nations. The rise of india and china alone having more wealth will more than compensate from developed nations slowing down.

People need to eat no matter what the world is doing and crops cant produce enough witout phosphate. Phosphate is part of everyday life thats only being used in greater volumes every year.

Australia is a net importer of Phosphate which is silly as we have millions of tonnes of the stuff sitting in our own backyard