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Tag Archives: intensive
Call for articles: Nutritional values and family farming
Originally posted on AGRICULTURE BLOG…..:
Farming Matters | 30.2 | June 2014 We are told of the great advances that have been made in ‘modern’ agriculture in the last 60 years. Yet there are more hungry and malnourished people on…
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged access to food, agroecology, biotechnology, cash crop, conservation, crop, development, family farm, farmer, fertiliser, finance, food, food availability, food loss, food quality, food security, food sovereignty, food waste, forest, genetic modification, Green Revolution, intensive, iron, knowledge, land use, local community, nutrition, obesity, poverty, rural, smallholder, trade, tradition, Vitamin A, woodland, yield, young person
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Nature conservation succeeds in parts of Europe
The State of Nature Report was sobering news for us in Britain in May 2013. I told you about it at the time. But a few weeks later, evidence came in Ecology Letters that conservation efforts may be paying off … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged arthropod, beetle, biodiversity, butterfly, coleopteran, conservation, data, dipteran, ecosystem, finance, habitat loss, history, hymenopteran, insect, intensive, knowledge, land use, lepidopteran, moth, pollination, pollution, research, wild pollinator, wildlife
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Sustainable rice intensification
Here’s a think tank called the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). Food First isn’t for profit. It’s worth watching. At Food First, Hellin Brink tells us about Sustainable Rice Intensification (SRI, also known as the System of … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer
Tagged Asia, biotechnology, breeding, conservation, crop, crop diversity, development, farmer, fertiliser, finance, food, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, Green Revolution, history, intensive, International Rice Research Institute, knowledge, local variety, plant_monocot, politics, pollution, poverty, research, rice, selective breeding, smallholder, soil, staple food, sustainable, System of Rice Intensification
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The importance of seed diversity
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Seeds might be small, inconspicuous things but they hold a great deal of power. For some, seeds mean survival, ritual, life. They are the basis of much of the…
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged breeding, conservation, corn, crop, crop diversity, crop variety, development, food, food sovereignty, genebank, genetic diversity, grain, Green Revolution, history, intensive, knowledge, local variety, maize, millet, neglected crop, pearl millet, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, rice, seed, seedbank, selective breeding, staple food, sustainable
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Could Food Insecure Africa Have Found a Saviour in Farming God’s Way?
argylesock says… I wasn’t going to read this article, because I don’t believe in God. But lots of people do, and anyway the ideas now labelled ‘Farming God’s Way’ sound very sensible.
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged arthropod, compost, conservation, corn, crop, crop rotation, development, disease, erosion, farm, farmer, fertiliser, finance, food, food security, history, insect, intensive, irrigation, knowledge, labour, land use, maize, mulch, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, religion, research, seed, soil, technology, tillage, trade, transport, waste, water
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Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought – Quartz
Originally posted on seeds for natural justice:
Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought – Quartz. It’s not one chemical, it’s the toxic soup from industrial agriculture, including fungicides on apples… exerpt: “There’s growing…
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, conservation, entomoculture, fungicide, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, intensive, neonicotinoid, pesticide, pollination, research, wild bee
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Current increases in crop yields will not meet future food demand
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Global food production must increase if we are to meet the rising demand for food, feed and fuel brought about by growing populations, incomes and western diets. It must…
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Tagged crop, data, development, food, intensive, population, sustainable
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Obama’s Plan To End Hunger In Africa Is Really A Plan To Industrialize Agriculture
Originally posted on ECO-opia:
By Magda Fahsi Last week, while touring Dakar, Senegal’s capital, President Obama touted his vision to reduce hunger in Africa. He emphasized food security, saying that far too many people on the continent endure poverty and…
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Tagged development, farmer, food, intensive, land use, politics, smallholder, trade
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African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance: who benefits, who loses?
Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher at EcoNexus tell us about African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. You can see their report here. The idea is to end poverty and hunger by promoting commercial, … Continue reading
Posted in food, money and trade
Tagged Africa, development, dryland, farmer, Group of Eight, history, intensive, land, land use, New Alliance, pastoral, politics, poverty, smallholder, trade, transport, United Nations
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It’s not natural! Intensive farming, synthetic food and synthetic genes
Is it natural? Whatever ‘it’ might be. We live in a world where genes are synthesised routinely and synthetic food isn’t far away. I don’t think there’s much point even asking about ‘natural’ any more. The US Supreme Court has … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, DNA, farm, food, food quality, gene, genetic modification, intensive, laboratory, law, livestock, meat, research, welfare
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