Tag: Agriculture - Page 3
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How Slow Money Financing Helps Food Businesses Grow
From farmers to bakers to restauranteurs, peer-to-peer loans are a lifeline for small food-related businesses.
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Arabica Coffee May Be Extinct in the Wild by 2100
Climate change may do in wild arabica coffee, which means bad things for cultivated varieties of the world's second most-traded commodity.
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How to Build Irrigation-Free Raised Beds with Hugelkultur
With water becoming an increasingly precious resource, growing techniques that limit or even eliminate irrigation become ever more valuable. Advocates claim that hugelkultur holds that promise.
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Quick Facts
Quick facts from Lester Brown's new book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
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Real-Life Tongue-Eating Parasite Stars in New Barry Levinson Eco-Thriller
A fictional account of an environmental crisis shines a light on problems in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Save Europe's Disappearing Cows, Say Campaigners
In Europe, there's a steady shift to intensive indoor farming of cattle. Animal rights campaigners are getting ready to fight back.
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Celebrity TreeHugger Woody Harrelson on His Tree-Saving Paper Mill (Interview)
"I’m just really, really attached to forests," he told us, and credits his friend and fellow celebrity Ted Danson for inspiration.
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Busted: Food Myths Brought to You by Corporate Front Groups
The messages Food MythBusters aims to correct are brought to us not only by those companies with a vested interest in promoting pesticides and biotechnology, but also by a host of less obvious sources. Here are some of them.
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Chicago Truck Farm Makes Urban Agriculture Mobile
It's certainly an eye catching spectacle, but is a farm on the back of a truck really green?
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Food Mythbusters: Coming to a City Near You on Food Day
Sustainable food advocate Anna Lappé tackles shocking and prolific food myths with film, just in time for Food Day -- tomorrow, October 24.
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Pesticide Exposure Killing Bumblebees, Too
It's not just honeybees being done in by neonicotinoids and other pesticides. New research shows worker bumblebees are being killed off as well.
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Rice Growing Emits More Methane as Climate Warms
Not only that, but crop yields decline with rising temperatures.
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NASA's VEGGIE System Will Make Space Farmers Out of Space Cowboys
Next year astronauts on the International Space Station will experiment with growing their own fresh vegetables to supply their diets.
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UK Police Hunt for a Herd of Stolen Elk
The surreal nature of this headline masks a very real problem for farmers everywhere.
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Neiman Marcus' $100k Chicken Coop is a Little 'Eggcessive'
Do you love your chickens enough to buy them a $100k chicken coop?
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GMO Crops Leading to Increased Pesticide Use in US
Since their introduction in the mid-1990s genetically modified crops have failed to deliver on promised reductions in rates of herbicide use, with yearly increases in use climbing recently.
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"Pink Slime" Lawsuit May Be Frivolous, But Could Chill Speech
The intended message of this suit: Scare the media and others out of speaking out against the meat industry. This is known as a SLAPP suit, which stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
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80% of Tropical Deforestation Caused by Agriculture
A new report finds that agriculture both commercial and subsistence is far and away the leading cause of tropical deforestation.
