Latest Stories in Sustainable Agriculture - Page 4
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Norway Cuts Palm Oil Consumption 64% to Protect Rainforest
An incredible amount of progress has been made in a very short time. But we must not stop in Norway. The whole world needs to wake up to the rainforest destruction caused by palm oil.
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World in Serious Trouble on Food Front
The world may be much closer to an unmangeable food shortage than most people realize.
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Vaccines Used on Factory Farms Causing New Resistant Viruses
It's not just bacterial diseases that are developing resistance to the medicines required to be administered to keep animals from dying on factory farms.
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Deconstructing Dinner: Foodie Radio Show to Hit Screens, With Your Help
In podcasts and on the radio, Deconstructing Dinner has been uncovering the flaws our food system and proposing alternatives. Now they are ready for the screen.
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How to Capture Swarming Honey Bees
Steve Gentry of Steve's Bees explains how capturing a swarm of honey bees is easier than you think.
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When Corn Prices Rise 50%, Expect Food Prices to Climb 1%
Another example of how much the US agricultural system is tied to corn...
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Organically Grown Corn Outperforms Non-Organic in Drought Conditions
It all comes down to the fact that organically-managed soils store more carbon and hold more water.
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Ecuadorian Farmers Organize 'Illegal' Fairs to Bring Healthy, Fair Priced Food to Communities
A local regulation forces all food to go through a terminal controlled by big business, but a group of small producers found a way to bypass the rule.
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Social-Media Enabled Aquaponics in West Oakland
A small start-up in West Oakland is farming fish and veggies, and using the internet and social networking to do it.
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How to Become a Vegetarian in One Easy Bite
Scientists find a strange explanation for some recent conversions to vegetarian dining choices.
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World Hunger Is About Politics, Power & Rights More Than Crop Yields & Biotech
Next time someone tries telling you that without using such and such genetically engineered biotech crop we won't be able to solve world hunger, just quote them some Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
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Genetically Modified Canola Found Growing Wild in Switzerland, Even Though It's Banned There
A small, further, example of how genetically modified crops aren't quite as easy to control as their manufacturers would like.
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Monsanto's Drought Tolerant Corn Outpaced by Conventional Breeding, Better Farming Practices
A new report from Union of Concerned Scientists finds that conventional crop breeding and better farming practices has increased drought tolerance 2-3 times more than genetic engineering, and at a lower cost.
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France Proposes Banning Bee-Killing Pesticide
Syngenta has two weeks to prove its Cruiser OSR insectide isn't harmful to bees, or its use on rapeseed crops will be banned.
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World's Largest Rooftop Fish and Vegetable Farm Planned For Berlin
"Honey, run up to the roof and grab a fish and some tomatoes for dinner." It could happen with Efficient City Farming Containerfarms.
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India Will Be World's Largest Beef Exporter in 2012
It certainly seems surprising at first, that a nation widely knowing for revering the cow would be a beef exporter at all. It all comes down to what you call beef.
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The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can Commercial Tomato Flavor be Fixed?
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences
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How Permaculture Could Transform Campuses Across the Globe
An international conference looks at how permaculture could be applied to transform university and school campuses into food producing, nature-friendly sustainable spaces.
