sustainable agriculture
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Sharma: success for the farmers’ movement in India would send a global signal
If the Indian farmers succeed in making Minimum Support Price (MSP) a legal right, it would cause major disruptions to international trade. Continue reading
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Lockdown Catastrophe: The Need for Resilient Food Systems Agroecology
There is no doubt that, contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. Continue reading
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In Cuba, greener farming means cleaner rivers
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in the early 1990s, food production on the island of Cuba was reduced—as the supply of Russian fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, and oil dried up. Under the stress of an imminent food crisis, the island quickly rebuilt a new form of diversified farming—including many urban organic gardens—that depended less on imported… Continue reading
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Why Fake Meat and Eliminating Livestock Are Really Bad Ideas By Ronnie Cummins
24 March 2019 — Dr Mercola Story at-a-glance Our chemical and fossil fuel-intensive system of industrial agriculture is belching out 43 to 57 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution that has dangerously destabilized our climate The driving force of Big Food Inc. and their army of chemical farmers, food processors and marketers is the idea Continue reading
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Defining a safe operating space for food systems in the Anthropocene
A food system revolution is urgently needed, to provide healthy diets for all while preventing irreversible damage to the Earth System. Continue reading
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Book Review: What’s the alternative to factory farms?
Agriculture is a fundamental issue for society. Those who work in agriculture — whether they are peasants in South America, laborers on farms in North America or workers in a chicken processing factory in Europe — support all of wider society. But agriculture itself fundamentally transforms the world around us. Even the earliest forms of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 