agriculture runs out of phosphor due to algae biofuel production
Originally submitted by Tuomo Kuosa
last updated by Maurizio Sajeva
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 2 - Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Nutrition
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2025
Wild Card's description
Algae production gets the highest priority in global energy markets. Production of large quatities of algae requires phosphor fertilizing. All available phosphor goes to algae production and agriculture especially in developing countries starts to severlly suffer from scarcity of phosphor fertilizes. Many developing countries end up to famine and quality of food nutrition goes down globally.
