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Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home Just what we need, cornfield crucifixions. Seriously though, this is very troubling. The Saudis are explicitly conserving their own resources at home, while exploiting land and water supplies here in America. CNBC reports: Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in […]
What I learned from my 2015 garden
What I learned from my 2015 garden Once again in 2015 I put on my garden scientist hat and went into the garden to plant, observe, ponder, harvest, weed, curse, and wonder. Like any year, it had its highlights, its low spots, and its head-scratchers. Here I’ll let you all in on the fun (it […]
Canadians Are Panicking Over Food Costs After Currency Collapse
Canadians Are Panicking Over Food Costs After Currency Collapse It’s no secret that America has a serious inflation problem. Though the Federal Reserve insists that our inflation rate is only at around .5%, we’ve all seen the price of food, rent, healthcare, and energy skyrocket over the past 10-20 years. However, this has been a […]
Food and Medicine Will Soon Be Unobtainable
Food and Medicine Will Soon Be Unobtainable If product is not moving, then how will you get your food, medicine and other essential supplies? Famed economists, John Williams, from Shadow Stats and Joseph Meyer, Straight Money Analysis, will tell you that the Baltic Dry Index is the best indicator of the economic health of the […]
Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency
Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency It was just yesterday when we documented the continuing slide in the loonie, which is suffering mightily in the face of oil’s inexorable decline. As regular readers are no doubt acutely aware, Canada is struggling through a dramatic economic adjustment, especially in Alberta, the heart of the country’s oil patch. […]
Weather extremes slash cereal yields
Weather extremes slash cereal yields Wheat and other cereal crops in developed countries such as Australia have been decimated. Image: CSIRO via Wikimedia Commons Increasing intensity of heat and drought as a result of global warming may have caused worldwide cereal harvests to be cut by up to a tenth since the mid-1960s. LONDON, 8 January, 2016 – Climate […]
Legumes in the Kitchen: They Are Not Just For Nitrogen-Fixing
LEGUMES IN THE KITCHEN: THEY ARE NOT JUST FOR NITROGEN-FIXING When it comes to legumes, I come from a fortunate background. Born and raised in the southern Louisiana, where cuisine is something entirely different than the rest of the United States, food has long been a product of love and cherish. It deserves devotion. It […]
From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism
From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism As a student in the 1980s, I was educated by probably the last generation of academics who found it possible to identify wholeheartedly with Marxism. They were good people and clever thinkers, and I suppose I became a Marxist myself for a time under their […]
Halifax Superstores warn of short supply due to weather, dollar
Halifax Superstores warn of short supply due to weather, dollar Grocery bills likely will go up in 2016 due to vegetable and fruit prices, a report says Inflation is modest at 1 per cent, but the price of fresh vegetables was up 11.5 per cent in September, Statistics Canada said. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian) Some grocery stores […]
When You Grow Your Food–You Know Your Food
WHEN YOU GROW YOUR FOOD—YOU KNOW YOUR FOOD When did food get so complicated? Not complicated to prepare, of course; it seems like companies delight in creating ever-more-convenient foods for us to enjoy, right out of the package or after a short trip through the microwave. But at what cost does that convenience come? The […]
The Grand Finale: “World War III Will Be A Fight Over Basic Human Needs – Food and Other Commodities”
The Grand Finale: “World War III Will Be A Fight Over Basic Human Needs – Food and Other Commodities” As political tensions heat up it is becoming clear that the world’s super powers are vying for control of resources like oil, water, metals and food. And though developed nations have thus far avoided any significant clashes […]
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor The climate talks in Paris in December this year are viewed as a last chance for the world’s governments to commit to binding targets that might halt our march towards catastrophe. But in the countdown to Paris, many of these same governments have signed or are pushing […]
To feed growing cities we need to stop urban sprawl eating up our food supply
To feed growing cities we need to stop urban sprawl eating up our food supply New season asparagus from farmland on Melbourne’s city fringe. Matthew Carey If you’ve eaten any of the new season’s asparagus recently, it probably came from Koo Wee Rup, a small town 60 kilometres to the south east of Melbourne. Koo Wee Rup […]
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like “This is what democracy looks like” goes the popular protest chant. However, it’s not democracy that captures the imagination, provides answers, and drives today’s resistance movement. Something much more interesting has been taking place during protests, forums and intentional communities. In his book The New Left the anthropologist David […]
