Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms
Why big farms are often not better.
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UN Report: The World’s Farms Stretched to ‘A Breaking Point’
UN: Climate-stressed, pollution-degraded farms system must adopt sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion by 2050.
Read more...Mandatory Household Food Waste Recycling Program Starts in California in January
California to launch mandatory residential food waste management program in January.
Read more...Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High
Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.
Read more...Plastics Use in Farming Threatens Food Safety and Human Health, FAO Warns
The UN’s FAO publishes first effort report on how the use of plastics in farming erodes the health of soils, threatening food safety and human health.
Read more...Book Review: Gabe Brown’s “Dirt to Soil”
“From Dirt to Soil” is well worth a read — and very hopeful, a good thing these days.
Read more...The Agribusiness Alliance for a Green Revolution Failed Africa
Big Ag’s push to sell chemicals and other inputs to developing countries has worked out great for them and badly for Africa.
Read more...African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop ‘African Green Revolution’
“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: What Climate Change Reformers Get Wrong
Climate change activists too often wind up bypassing core issues. Here are a couple of them.
Read more...A 20-Foot Sea Wall Won’t Save Miami – But Living Structures Can
How to rescue Miami…and other coastal cities that will otherwise be largely under water.
Read more...Beware of World Economic Forum/Gates UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse
The Gates Foundation and the WEF are steamrolling normal UN processes as part of a campaign to discredit sound agroecology practices.
Read more...The Outdoors Is, Indeed, Great
Brain science, and gardening!
Read more...Prairie Dogs as Ecosystem Engineers and and Sentient Beings
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him” –Wittgenstein. Wrong!
Read more...We’re Havin’ a Heat Wave (along with Our Cats)
Cats, “wet bulb” temperature, and life without air conditioning.
Read more...The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
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