Top 5 Earth Day Strategies for Agriculture
If Earth Day offers a moment to reflect on how we’re treating the planet, then it’s critical to use this moment to rethink our approach to agriculture.
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Warsaw: Global Landscape Forum Launches Alongside COP19
As climate talks continued at COP19 and climate activists took to the streets of Warsaw to demand an end to business as usual, the first Global Landscapes Forum debuted at the University of Warsaw Saturday, launching a two day conference to promote a novel holistic approach to addressing climate change while meeting the need to sustainably feed 9 billion people by 2050.
We Can Feed the World / No We Can’t / No We Won’t
There are, and have been for a few decades now, competing narratives about food, hunger, and population.
A farm beyond food
Sutton Community Farm in London, England is the city’s largest arable community farm.
Deserts, non-native species and the Second Genesis
Unlike traditional approaches like drilling wells or damming rivers to provide irrigation that exhaust precious water resources for little long-term benefit, Fukuoka’s angle is just to dump a bunch of seeds on a dry area and see what takes, without the need for any artificial irrigation.
Small Scale Aquaponics – From Fish Poop to Seafood Dinner
Tour a closed-loop water system where one critter’s wastes become another’s food.
Harnessing the Future
Gina Wertz is a horse and ox teamster. Her animal-powered market vegetables and herbs are grown at Under the Stone Garden on the grounds of Tillers International, a Kalamazoo County working farm and learning center…
The Real Dirt: Regenerating Soil Quality To Sustain Life
The current buzzword in production agriculture today is "sustainability." But what does that really mean?
Sustainable farming mania is frustrating me
Am I the only office guy in America who spends his leisure time reading into the benefits of no-till agriculture or how cows can improve the land by “mobbing, mowing and moving” over a pasture?
Cultivating Values on the College Farm, or, Revisionist History Has No Future
So why did a small college going the extra mile to be humane and sustainable face an orchestrated avalanche of wrath when it planned to slaughter two of its admittedly iconic oxen?
Our seed, our sovereignty – seed law victory in Indonesia
Between 2005 and 2010, more than a dozen farmers from Kediri and Nganjuk regencies in East Java were prosecuted after seed companies accused them of stealing seed.
Getting to the Root of the Problem
Farmland LP is a business born from the “uh-oh moment.” The uh-oh moment arrives when you comprehend just how unsustainable modern society has become.