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
… News Investigations Science And Technology Food And Farming Crops Korea Madagascar … Kenya Breabasket Foreign Agriculture Africa Food Production Food China Neo-colonial Laos Saudi Arabia …
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year
… Rees | 3rd July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Science And Technology CCS … emissions. Mitigating Climate Change Through Food and Land Use , a report by the Worldwatch … carbon.’ The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) acknowledges …
When it comes to reusable packaging and the environment, consumers are keen to do the right thing, but it seems sparking a refill revolution in Great Britain means getting the price right first
… Rees | 29th June 2009 News Green Living Food And Drink Take Action Waste Recycling … packaging across a range of products. The Food and Drink Federation responded to the … by declaring its ambition to send zero food and packaging waste from factories to …
David Cameron's appointment of a 'shops tsar', the controversial Localism Bill, and increasing opposition to supermarkets and other chain stores could mark a turning point in the struggle to save Britain's high streets
… are to become people’s first port of call for food shopping then we would like to see them … its spokesperson and Friends of the Earth food campaigner Helen Rimmer: councillors …
Inconsistent wind is no impediment to the generation of electricity by turbines, three separate reports have concluded, as well as showing that the National Grid is more than able to cope with increased investment in wind energy
… Rees | 13th July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Energy Wind Renewables …
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops'
… biofuel being linked to issues of land and food security. Bamboo too has power potential: …
The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake their achievement – in the quest to overcome nature’s ultimate natural obstacle, humans have already won
… and theft – ‘oxygen tanks, stove fuel, and food vanish every year… much of it …