Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently
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Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently
… Mark Anslow | 1st March 2008 News Food And Farming Food Organic Farms Feed 10_organic.jpg Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark … farm differently 1 Yield Switching to organic farming would have different effects according …
The practical evidence suggests agroforestry in the UK has got something to offer both commercial farmers and smallholders alike. The challenge now, says Ed Hamer, is how to encourage sceptical farmers that planting trees across farmland is a good idea
… March 2012 News Forests Agroforestry Food And Farming Investigations … that our tolerance for mixing trees with farming is not what it once was. Of course, … who champion the role of the tree in the farming landscape. Agroforestry has seen …
The community supports the farmer and the farmer supports the community. Why isn't everyone taking part in the latest agricultural revolution, wonders Ed Hamer
… August 2008 News Community Agriculture CSA Farming Forres Scotland EarthShare Farming Agribusiness Factory Farming Food Security Organics Green Living …
Many a good idea has floundered for lack of funds, but with today's models for community finance this need no longer be so...
… showing great promise for future investment: farming. Community-funded farming Community involvement in agriculture … across the UK. This model of subscription farming, in which consumers become members and …
The uniting of 800 million rural workers against the loss of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. Resistance is far from futile, says Ed Hamer
… Farmers unite! Ed Hamer | 1st April 2009 News Farming Agriculture La Via Campesina Fair … Food Trade Globalisation Green Revolution Farming Food Security Fair Trade Globalisation Food And Farming ploughs_into_swords_01.jpg The uniting …
All sectors must play their part in a global emissions deal, but could including agriculture in the mix lead to an intensification of farming and money for GM crops?
… Copenhagen could lead to increase in intensive farming Ed Hamer | 14th December 2009 News Copenhagen Food And Farming Climate Change COP15 Gm Soil Carbon … in the mix lead to an intensification of farming and money for GM crops? On Saturday 12 …
With controversial plans to allow farmers to cull badgers later this year, Ed Hamer asks whether Bovine TB is really a health problem for either cows or humans
… | 30th January 2011 Comment Badgers Food And Farming Disease badger.jpg Badger culling … Land magazine READ MORE... NEWS Asian factory farming boom spreading animal diseases like … controls on excessive use in intensive farming NEWS ANALYSIS Warning as infectious …
The Land Workers Alliance gathered yesterday at DEFRA's London HQ to protest at the corrupt relationship between Government and corporate agriculture - and the deliberate marginalisation of small farmers, our most sustainable producers. Ed Hamer explains ...
… Ed Hamer | 18th April 2014 Comment Food Farming Politics UK lwa-protest.jpg The Land …
Can big ever be beautiful where organic foods are concerned? Ed Hamer gets to grips with one of the environmental consumer’s greatest dilemmas
… Trade Vegetarianism And Veganism Food And Farming Health corporate organics.jpg Can big … to be marketed? Green and Black's Conviction farming uprooted? Organic farming is rooted firmly in the conviction …
Ed Hamer questions the sanity of agricultural policies that increasingly threaten the sovereignty of the British farmer, as well as the food security of the nation
… and fertile Ed Hamer | 20th June 2008 Comment Farming Agriculture Agribusiness Farming Conservation Politics And Economics … set-aside land. In fact, even among Britain’s farming community the term tends to hold the …
Carbon reduction potential of ecological farming methods is highlighted at Copenhagen, as protests against industrial agriculture gather strength
… 2009 News Copenhagen Climate Change Food And Farming Agroecology Ecosystems Via Campesina … Carbon reduction potential of ecological farming methods is highlighted at Copenhagen, … the positive contribution of sustainable farming to the climate, the environment and …
In 1952, Rachel Rowlands’ mother Dinah established the UK’s first organic dairy farm near Aberystwyth with a small herd of Guernsey cows, working ‘in harmony with nature, the elements, the seasons and wildlife’. In 1966, Rachel took over the farm and founded the Rachel’s Organic Dairy brand, which was sold to Horizon, a subsidiary of Dean Foods, in 1999.
… Organics Organics Agribusiness Factory Farming Food And Farming Archive_104.jpg In 1952, Rachel …
What could be more cheerful than this ubiquitous breakfast fruit? But if you’re not buying them Fairtrade and organic, argues Ed Hamer, then you’re buying into a modern agricultural scandal
… 2008 News Bananas Fair Trade Organics Slavery Farming Fair Trade Agribusiness Factory Farming Organics Green Living Food And Farming banana2_1.jpg What could be more …
It looked like such a good idea: take the pressure off wild fish stocks by growing GM oilseeds that produce health-enhancing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, writes Claire Robinson. But as a new study has established, those fish oils, novel in terrestrial ecosystems, cause wing deformities in cabbage white butterflies. Yet a third open field trial of these GM crops could soon be under way.
Nutritionally-enhanced GM crops? Too bad about the deformed butterflies Claire Robinson GMWatch | 18th April 2016 News GMOs Nutrition Food Ecology Fishing Health cabbage-white-cut.jpg It looked like …
From plantation to consumer: a tale of chemicals, slavery and CO<sub>2</sub>
… June 2008 Ethical Living Bananas Supply Chain Farming Agribusiness Factory Farming Globalisation Green Living Food And Farming banana2.jpg From plantation to …
Founded in 1991 by Craig Sams and his wife Josephine Fairley, Green & Black’s brand was conceived to represent the ‘green’ concerns of its founders and the ‘black’ of the cocoa bean.
… Living Green And Blacks Agribusiness Organics Farming Factory Farming Food And Farming Archive_103.jpg Founded in 1991 by …
Five international judges say Monsanto's activities have negatively affected individuals, communities and biodiversity, writes Claire Robinson. The Monsanto Tribunal's damning ruling denounces the company's harmful impacts on food sovereignty, agricultural production, access to nutrition, the natural environment, seed diversity, climate change, pollution and traditional cultural practices.
… | 24th April 2017 News Corporations Law Farming Food GMOs Health Seeds Pesticides … "interfered with the right to food by forcing farming methods that do not respect … The judges pointed out that an alternative farming future to the agro-industrial model is …
Meat, dairy... in fact, livestock in general has in recent years joined the ranks of the 4x4 and the short-haul flight. But could a change in the way we graze animals not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but even remove them from the atmosphere?
… Ed Hamer | 15th September 2009 News Food And Farming Climate Change Ecology Grazing … currently under serious threat from intensive farming. He claims that simple yet effective … is not without its contradictions. The farming of livestock itself has been …
The Council of Monte Maiz, a small town in Argentina surrounded by intensive GMO soya farms, has enacted a law that forbids the spraying and storage of pesticides and other agrochemicals after severe health impacts were detected.
… Claire Robinson GMWatch | 14th July 2015 News Farming Health Law GMOs Toxics Argentina …
The Seeds of Change trademark was created in the 1980s by a small organic seed cooperative from Santa Fe, New Mexico, which set out ‘to help people and future generations improve their lives and enjoy wholesome, natural, chemical-free foods’. Seeds of Change expanded its enterprise in 1996 to include a range of organic soups, cereal bars, pastas and sauces. A year later it was bought by Mars and launched in the UK in 1999.
… Seeds Of Change Organics Agribusiness Factory Farming Food And Farming Archive_105.jpg The Seeds of Change …
The Philippines were meant to be the US's sandbox for GMO development and penetration into southeast Asia, but that has all changed with a Supreme Court decision to ban GMO crop trials pending the development of new biosafety protocols.
… trials GMWatch | 13th December 2015 News GMOs Farming Philippines Law USA … "GE crops promote an ineffective farming model based on industrial agriculture, …
There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders.
… GMOs Science Bangladesh Media UK Regulation Farming Corporations brinjal-cut.jpg There's …
Protesters have now blocked a Monsanto seed factory in Córdoba, Argentina for over two years, writes Ciara Low. Another eviction attempt is now imminent, and campaigners are calling for a big mobilization this Sunday to fortify the blockade and send out a strong message to Monsanto and its acolytes: 'No Pasaran!' - 'They shall not pass!'
… | 29th January 2016 News Argentina GMOs Seeds Farming Corporations Protest Law … local farmers. Much like in the US, 'family farming' in Argentina is a thing of the past. …