Myth number 7: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife
… Kimbell | 1st June 2003 News Industrial Agriculture Natural World Diversity … investigates.jpg Myth number 7: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife The truth: Industrial agriculture is the largest single threat to …
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT
… | 1st April 2003 News Industrial Farming Agriculture Local Economy Community Small … Archive_12.jpg Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT The truth: small … for the environment. Proponents of industrial agriculture claim that 'bigger is better' when …
By radically changing the way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse than ever before. Not only that, agriculture has led to the first significant instances of large-scale war, inequality, poverty, crime, famine and human induced climate change and mass extinction.
By Clive W. Dennis (winner of the Ecologist/Coady International Institute 2006 Essay Competition)
… Humanity's worst invention: Agriculture Clive Dennis | 22nd September 2006 News Agriculture Anthropology Farming Progress … way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization made a u-turn against organic agriculture after lobbying by the biotechnology industry, according to documents seen by the Ecologist.
… And Farming Archive_193.jpg The UN Food and Agriculture Organization made a u-turn against organic agriculture after lobbying by the … seen by the Ecologist. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) made a U-turn …
Is the light brown apple moth such a danger to crops both agricultural and financial that the US government will risk the health of its citizens to eradicate it? They spray, you pay, warns Claire Robinson
… September 2008 News Moths Insecticides Crops Agriculture Spraying Pesticide Pesticides … moth, or LBAM. According to California’s agriculture secretary, AG Kawamura, the moth … as $640 million annually.’ State assembly agriculture commissioner Tom Berryhill agrees: …
Big may look impressive, but life can be hell for the individual in agriculture today. The problems are vast and complex, and do not lend themselves to easy answers. So what is the agricultural crisis all about, and what can be done to tackle it? Steven Gorelick seeks out the true root of the crisis.
… crisis Steven Gorelick | 5th June 2000 News Agriculture Farming Crisis Agribusiness … but life can be hell for the individual in agriculture today. The problems are vast and … farmers and 600,000 beef producers gave up agriculture in 1999. UK farm income, …
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
… Ed Hamer | 7th August 2008 News Community Agriculture CSA Farming Forres Scotland … from your food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a term used loosely to … are built on the foundations of ecological agriculture, organic certification itself …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently
… in 2003. 6 The techniques used in organic agriculture to enhance soil fertility in turn … trefoil to ordinary grass. 4. Water use Agriculture is officially the most thirsty … cent of total grain production. 15 Organic agriculture is different. Due to its emphasis …
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
… Ed Hamer | 20th June 2008 Comment Farming Agriculture Agribusiness Farming Conservation … the Commission’s interventionist policies in agriculture, but instead an economic incentive … along with a sustainable model of settled agriculture that supported the UK’s population …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… 2003 News Murcia Spain Europe Intensive Agriculture Tour Consumerism Drought Fresh … place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water … area of Europe, where tourism and industrial agriculture are drinking it dry. The lush golf …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
… of Hope Jake Bowers | 1st May 2003 News Hemp Agriculture Native Sovereignty Organic Agriculture Indigenous Peoples Agribusiness … describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by …
As the bluetongue virus sinks its teeth into British livestock, there is one appalling certainty: like the outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease and foot-and-mouth before it, some farmers will see no way out, and take their own lives. Farmers in Britain are the profession second most likely to commit suicide (after, bizarrely, dentistry).
… News India Suicides Poverty Debt World Bank Agriculture Farming Agribusiness Farming Urban … its being listed as unsafe by the Food and Agriculture Organisation. He mixed a little … that led to a fall in government spending on agriculture and let into the country agro-food …
It might be fair to say that the earthworm is a farmer’s best friend.
… | 15th October 2008 News Worms Earthworm Agriculture Gilbert White Soil Farming … in turn may have important consequences for agriculture. The UK common earthworm - found …
This beautiful but deadly plant proliferates in lakes across Africa – choking everything in its path. Why, asks Tom Hargreaves, have all attempts to manage it failed?
… | 1st October 2003 News Zimbabwe Industrial Agriculture Ponds Deforestation Dams … This process is exacerbated by industrial agriculture, deforestation and dams. Industrial Agriculture – Encouraged by World Bank …
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored. KATHRYN HINDESS reports
… a dramatic pace. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), some "75% of … campaigner Vandana Shiva believes agriculture giants, ‘make commodity out of … the genetic information of 10,000 years of agriculture lies frozen. Svalbard Seed Vault …
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting policymakers with complex and difficult choices. The Worldwatch Institute’s latest look at Earth’s “vital signs” sees dangerous times ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates
… in 2005, according to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) figures. In … land and water. While these food demands on agriculture grow, so does the demand for crops …
Steven Gorelick lays out just a few of the policy changes, priority shifts and new approaches that could help save rural life, and lead to more sustainable farming
… Steven Gorelick | 7th June 2000 News Farming Agriculture Food Miles Food Transportation … and other forms of community supported agriculture. If farmers were not impelled to … few years, the consumer interest in organic agriculture has shot up dramatically, and …
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
Bananas: from plantation to plate Ed Hamer | 2nd June 2008 News Bananas Fair Trade Organics Slavery Farming Fair Trade Agribusiness Factory Farming Organics Green Living Food And Farming …
If you want to understand why globalisation is so destructive, you need look no further than the invisible food giant Cargill. By Brewster Kneen.
… to the family farm comes from corporate agriculture. By this they mean corporations … which aspired to develop US domestic agriculture by removing ‘excess human … to a free market or to a ‘transition’ out of agriculture. While this proposal failed, it …
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business
… that Smithfield will ‘modernise’ Polish agriculture and bring prosperity and jobs to … that maximises profits by industrialising agriculture and eliminating both animal … of small slaughterhouses. Buzek’s minister of agriculture promulgated regulations that would …
Can big ever be beautiful where organic foods are concerned? Ed Hamer gets to grips with one of the environmental consumer’s greatest dilemmas
… to the rapid industrialisation of our agriculture, the organic movement is … to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), the principles … why, after all, people buy organic. Food and agriculture are central to the problems of …
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports
… and we can maintain that urban balance with agriculture.' The problem, according to … says. 'We need to put the 'culture' back into agriculture.' A brighter future After a long …
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
… said a ban would mean ‘ we couldn’t do agriculture in Argentina ’ . Much of … put in a formal request to the ministry of agriculture to reassess the toxicity of …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… 2007 News Biofuels Ethanol Diesel Farming Agriculture Biofuel Food Security Agribusiness … be laid at the door of the industrial end of agriculture and the agribusinesses constantly … ’s website, covering the US Department of Agriculture’s projection that of the extra 20 …