Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day 2012.
The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), gives focus to World Food Day observances and raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hun...
I believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. I think the forecasts for world food production could be entirely wrong. Food prices are rising again, partly because of the damage done to crops in the northern hemisphere b...
By Gary Thomas, azocleantech.com
"Promoting Sustainable Urban Development through Urban Agriculture and Tourism" is the theme of the 2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF).
The World Cities Scientific Development Alliance (WCSDA) organizes WCSDFs every year along with its partners....
By Tom Quaife
Movie aficionados will remember the scene from "The Graduate" where the main character, Benjamin Braddock, is at a lavish party thrown by his parents, receiving career advice from the well-heeled guests. A man takes him aside and says there is just one word to consider: plastics.
Thi...
It turns out converted rainforest land is neither particularly productive as farmland nor climate smart, since creating it releases huge amounts of carbon sequestered in trees. Now that we’re surrounded by 7 billion of our closest friends, it’s probably a good time to talk about how we’re ...
As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It's hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clu...
A Kansas State University geographer is part of a research team out to prove what environmental scientists have suspected for years: Increasing the production of soybean and biofuel crops in Brazil increases deforestation in the Amazon.
Although this cause-and-effect finding seems fairly straightfo...
Support for Conservation Programs in the Western U.S. and Canada The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Environmental Program The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation works to resolve social and environmental problems in the U.S. and around the world. One of the focus areas of the Foundation’s En...
Warming has already lowered yields of wheat and corn.
Nicola Jones
Farmers have produced less food during the past three decades than they would have done were climate change not happening, according to a study published today1. Global maize (corn) production, for example, is estimated to be about...
by Richard Harris
Scientists have long predicted that — eventually — temperatures and altered rainfall caused by global climate change will take a toll on four of the most important crops in the world: rice, wheat soy and corn.
Now, as world grain prices hover near record highs, a new study finds ...
If you've never heard of the Sacramento Delta, you're not alone. Even people who live in California aren't too sure where it is. But the Sacramento Delta is crucial to the health of the state, and climate change is threatening the delta's very existence.
The Sacramento Delta is a small triangle of ...
August 24th, 2009Forests and farms don’t mix, according to conventional wisdom.
Farmers are often portrayed as the villains, slashing and burning trees to clear land for crops and wrecking forests from the Amazon to Indonesia (…not to mention Europe, where people cleared most forests thousands of y...
Almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover, according to a study on Monday indicating that farmers are far less destructive to carbon-storing forests than previously believed.
From: Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, ReutersPublished August 24, 2009Farmers Care Ab...
19,200 distinct species of bees have been mapped by the American Museum of Natural History!
That is good news for farmers and all of us whose food and landscaping depend upon bees to make it happen. There has been a worry about collapse of honeybee colonies necessary to pollinate. Bees have more sp...
The St Louis Post-Dispatch article by Sarah Lohman (June 11, 08) was really frightening. She reports that scientists predict the biggest ever dead zone of 10,000 square miles!!!!!!
This is oxygen deprived water in which algae consumes oxygen forcing life to flee or die. The Midwestern corn grown fo...
