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Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig. LONDON—Humans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year. Researchers in the US believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon […]
New Research Says Plant-based Diet Best for Planet and People – Our World
New Research Says Plant-based Diet Best for Planet and People – Our World. As cities grow and incomes rise around the world, more and more people are leaving gardens and traditional diets behind and eating refined sugars, refined fats, oils and resource- and land-intense agricultural products like beef. This global dietary transition is harming the […]
Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed
Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed. Having learned some background knowledge on why you would want to save seeds in the first place (see Part I), you may now be wondering how to go about doing it. There are many ways to do this, and though it can be as simple as keeping […]
To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia
To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia. November 12, 2014 — The 2008 global food price spikes were a wake-up call to global policy-makers, shaking them from the lethargic slumber of the overfed. The rhetorical responses were swift, but policies and practices have changed little. That is in part because they […]
Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: ‘Farming Like the Earth Matters’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: ‘Farming Like the Earth Matters’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grassfed, and regenerative. Seed saving, composting, fertilizing with manure, polycultures, no-till and raising livestock entirely on grass—all of which we associate today […]
Energy Balance: Regenerative Agriculture: The Transition.
Energy Balance: Regenerative Agriculture: The Transition. In the face of peak oil and in order to curb carbon emissions, methods of farming that depend less on oil and natural gas, respectively to run machinery and to make synthetic fertilizers, must be sought. Such options are to be found within the framework of regenerative agriculture, but […]
Resource Insights: Why GMO labeling in the U.S. needs to win only once
Resource Insights: Why GMO labeling in the U.S. needs to win only once. There were no doubt celebrations last week in the boardrooms of corporations that own patents to the world’s genetically engineered crops. Proposals to label foods containing these crops–commonly called GMOs for genetically modified organisms–were defeated soundly in Colorado and barely in Oregon. That […]
NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: “There will be some definite changes” | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show
NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: “There will be some definite changes” | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has sounded a stark warning over California’s sustained drought, publishing its latest findings where satellite surveys show a rapidly depleting groundwater supply. And with California as the United States’ most valuable agricultural state, and thus key to […]
China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg
China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg. The record surge in Chinese corn output is over, and Dong Yushan doesn’t have to look much farther than his dusty fields in Henan province to see why. A lack of rain from May to August turned into the worst drought the 67-year-old farmer ever saw. […]
I’ve been Pollan-ated… | Eric Garza
I’ve been Pollan-ated… | Eric Garza. Each year the University of Vermont chooses a book that all first year undergraduates are expected to read. This year they chose Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, by Michael Pollan, a book I reviewed a while back. If Michael Pollan is anything, he’s certainly an excellent storyteller. As part of the […]
Global finance and the privatization of rural livelihoods | ROAR Magazine
Global finance and the privatization of rural livelihoods | ROAR Magazine. A big piece of news for food politics enthusiasts this summer was India’s veto over a proposed agreement — to be concluded within the legal framework of the World Trade Organization — on ‘trade facilitation measures’. The agreement was meant to regulate a number […]
One-fifth of Global Farm Soil Degraded by Salt – Our World
One-fifth of Global Farm Soil Degraded by Salt – Our World. Salt is degrading one-fifth of the world’s irrigated land and causing around US$27.3 billion per year in economic losses, according to a new assessment from the United Nations University (UNU). That’s because every day for the past 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares […]
Review: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist
Review: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist. Title: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist Author: Michael Judd Publisher: Chelsea Green Release Date: November, 2013 It’s remarkable how much information this slim paperback carries. It doesn’t try to teach all the basics of gardening and landscaping, but instead focuses on several projects: an herb spiral, a food forest, swales […]
Will GM Crops Feed the World?
Will GM Crops Feed the World?. The Claim: We need GM crops to feed the world Full Report (550kb PDF) Supporters of genetically engineered (also called genetically modified or GM) crops claim that we need this technology to feed a growing global population. However, the promise to “feed the world” with GM crops overlooks the real […]
Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy
Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy. thecommunityfarm.co.uk The sad state of Britain’s dairying has the same root cause as the billion worldwide who are undernourished, the billion who are overweight and/or diabetic or in danger of heart disease, global warming, the mass extinction of our fellow creatures: […]
