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Smallholding: the basics
Gervase Poulden
18th October, 2011
From sheep to spinach, Gervase Poulden has the skinny on how to make your smallholding dreams a reality more...
Up in smoke: a scientist's mission to stop slash-and-burn farming
Matilda Lee
22nd September, 2011
An Ecologist cover story in 2005 prompted the making of an epic documentary, Up in Smoke, about slash and burn farming. Now the film finally airs on More4 on September 27th... Matilda Lee reports more...
Does Kenya need GM crops as it battles famine in the Horn of Africa?
Rosie Spinks
8th September, 2011
In the midst of a dire need to feed millions of people facing hunger because of drought, Kenya's newly passed Biosafety Act allows for the importation of GM crops - but at what cost? more...
The Ecologist November 1971: rural to urban shift
The Ecologist
11th November, 2011
Forty years ago, the Ecologist wrote about problems associated with the flight of Spain's agricultural workers to city centres. more...
Public sector should develop GM crops for seed companies, says leading researcher
Tom Levitt
1st August, 2011
As controversial UK trials of a potato genetically-modified to be resistant to late blight get underway, we speak to research leader and plant geneticist Professor Jonathan Jones about why he is in favour of an expansion in GM crops more...
Trial of anti-aphid GM wheat awaits government green light
Hal Hodson, The Guardian
22nd June, 2011
Latest field test could begin in March 2012 after research centre creates crop by synthesising repellent gene found in mint. Hal Hodson reports more...
Intense lobbying could enable unapproved GM crops to enter European food chain
Tom Levitt
15th February, 2011
Agribusiness accused of 'scaremongering' lobbying tactics as it pushes for the import of animal feed containing traces of unapproved genetically modified (GM) crops - using the guise of combating feed shortagesmore...
The Ecologist February 1971: The Pesticide Fallacy
The Ecologist
14th February, 2011
Forty years ago this February Roy Bridger wrote The Pesticide Fallacy - outlining early concerns over certain pest control methods. But have things improved? more...
Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby doesn't want you to read
Claire Robinson
24th November, 2010
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study more...
India bans planting of first GM food crop
Ecologist
9th February, 2010
Campaigners welcome decision to put on hold cultivation of genetically modified (GM) aubergine crop, Bt Brinjal, until 'safety of product' established more...
Peak phosphorus: our most important nutrient running out
Ewan Kingston
12th January, 2010
It has no synthetic alternative and some scientists believe supplies may already be in a terminal decline. But there is still no international effort to tackle the massive agricultural problems that will come when the phosphorus runs out more...
Gathuru Mburu: Kenya has already had a Green Revolution
Laura Sevier
23rd November, 2009
Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa already has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty more...
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CASE STUDY: setting up an organic market garden
Laura Sevier
26th April, 2007
Septuagenarian Mehr Fardoonji is still to be found with her hands in the soil after forty-five years of organic market gardening more...
Call for publicly funded research into GM crops
Ecologist
20th October, 2009
Technologies to increase agricultural productivity will allow the UK to help feed the world, says Royal Society report more...
GM-free Europe: how we could still ban GMOs
Tom Levitt
21st October, 2009
Re-nationalising decisions on growing GM crops would allow EU countries to declare themselves GM-free, but could bring new dangers more...
Know your oats: grow your own grains
Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott
25th August, 2009
Growing your own food can go beyond fruit and veg if you have space and the right soil. Read on for Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott's guide to grain crops more...
Wales consults on tighter GM contamination laws
Ecologist
7th July, 2009
A consultation by the Welsh Assembly Government proposes more stringent measures to protect Wales's farmers from the threat of cross-contamination by GM crops more...
Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website
Eifion Rees
22nd June, 2009
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic more...
Government advisor lobbies for EU and UK to overhaul GM regulations
Ecologist
1st March, 2009
A Government adviser has called for the regulatory overhaul on genetically modified crops in the EU and opposes the ‘strange’ ban on pesticides. more...
Biofuels 2.0
Helena Paul
1st February 2009
A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. Grown on unused, ‘marginal’ land they won’t compete for our food crops. But just where exactly is all this marginal land, and whose backyard might it be? Helena Paul reports more...
US Department of Agriculture worried about GM food imports
News
6th March, 2009
Having exported largely untested GM crops around the world for decades, the US is suddenly starting to worry about what genetically modified organisms other countries might send their way. more...
New Mexico's traditional chilies are threatened by GMO seeds
Ecologist
22nd January, 2009
New Mexico’s chilli farmers are under threat. The film 'Red, green of GE?' hears from those concerned about the potentially devastating effects GMO crops would have on the New Mexico chilli. more...
Feed the world?
Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
1st November, 2008
The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch more...
Desert grain
Prof Jack Heinemann
1st November, 2008
Can food crops really be engineered to thrive - and to yield more - under drought conditions? After 25 years we're still waiting for the flood of evidence, says Prof Jack Heinemann more...
Growing concern
Pat Thomas
1st November, 2008
Genetically modified food. It’s a big issue. Increasingly, we are handed the notion that GM food is just like any other food, only better, because of its almost magical power to solve our most immediate crises of poverty, hunger, fossil-fuel depletion and climate change. more...Members
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