‘Climate Smart Agriculture' can be applied to anything from industrial monocultures to agroecology, writes Helena Paul - and fertiliser, biotech and agribusiness corporations are seizing the chance to cash in. Now COP21 host France is proposing to use soils as a giant carbon sink - a fine idea in itself, but not if it's used to 'offset' continued fossil fuel emissions, and to greenwash industrial agriculture.
… ‘Climate-Smart Agriculture' - preparing for a corporate soil … France Corporations farm.jpg ‘Climate Smart Agriculture' can be applied to anything from … fuel emissions, and to greenwash industrial agriculture. We know that agriculture is …
The US looks set to approve GM crops that resist the 'Agent Orange' pesticide 2,4-D as well as glyphosate, writes Helena Paul. If it does, the toxic chemical - created in WW2 to destroy enemy food supplies - will soon end up in animal feeds, and the food we eat.
… we eat. The main props of modern industrial agriculture, synthetic fertilisers and … also had the effect of destroying small-scale agriculture. As we now know, the 2,4,5-T was … the indication from the US Department of Agriculture in January 2014 [12] that it was …
Making Ghana’s cocoa sector more sustainable isn’t the easiest of tasks but for the Louis Bolk Institute’s Christian Mensah that’s all part of the job. Ruth Styles caught up with him to find out how he’s doing it
… Q&A: sustainable agriculture expert, Christian Mensah Ruth … the RFA and its partners in the Sustainable Agriculture Network [SAN], he helps to promote … have not yet made the switch to new types of agriculture production.’ RS: You’ve mentioned …
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
… of addressing climate change and regenerating agriculture and rural regions in Europe and … from it. Thus, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation 2008 report, Gender … not making it any more’. Recognising that agriculture may be entering a period of …
From biodynamic farming methods to persuading people to give English wine another try, the Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard's Roy Cook is transforming the British wine industry
… Ethical Living Wine Green Business Biodynamic Agriculture Food Drink Food And Farming … dynamised water and so on.’ Biodynamic agriculture first originated from the work … study by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Switzerland, researchers …
The unfolding human and ecological disaster of GM agriculture in the Americas must send the EU a powerful message, writes Helena Paul. We don't want it here, and we should stop buying the products of GM-driven genocide and ecocide abroad.
… unfolding human and ecological disaster of GM agriculture in the Americas must send the EU a … Europe: for a rich and varied GM-free agriculture Indeed Europe should change its … show the way to a rich and varied GM free agriculture that provides nutritious, healthy …
Greece might be in dire financial straights but for the country’s best-known natural beauty brand, things have never been better. Ruth Styles caught up with Lena Korres to find out why
The Ecologist meets… Korres co-founder, Lena Korres Ruth Styles | 13th April 2012 Ethical Living Korres Natural Organic Recycled Health And Beauty Skincare Eco-friendly Green Eco wild-rose.jpg Greece …
Tucked away in leafy Gloucestershire is a beauty brand with a ‘beyond organic’ philosophy that’s making the world sit up and take notice. Ruth Styles hopped on the train and went to meet the inspirational Denise Leicester
The Ecologist meets… Ila founder Denise Leicester Ruth Styles | 15th February 2012 Ethical Living Health And Beauty Ila Spa Eco Organic Soil Association Ecocert Fair Trade India Jasmine Rose …
Advocates claim that synthetic biology and the so-called New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) are distinct from genetic engineering (GE), write Helena Paul, Elisabeth Bücking & Ricarda Steinbrecher. In fact synthetic biology and NBTs carry similar risks to old-style GE, and even create novel hazards. The 'new GE' techniques - as they should be named - and their products deserve regulation at least as strict as those applying to GMOs.
'New Breeding Techniques' and synthetic biology - genetic engineering by another name Helena Paul Elisabeth Bücking Ricarda A. Steinbrecher | 4th April 2017 News GMOs Technology Regulation Farming EU …
With Fairtrade Fortnight in full swing, Ruth Styles caught up with People Tree founder, Safia Minney, and Swallows director, Santo Haque, to find out why hand weaving is set to be fashion's next big scandal
… it's the second largest sector after agriculture in India. It’s huge. And these …
In Food Justice, Robert Gottilieb and Anupama Josh make a compelling case for a more integrated approach to changing the way we eat, says Ruth Styles
Food Justice Ruth Styles | 13th January 2011 Reviews Food Pestcides Review Tesco Walmart Reviews Books 51nmsl3b1ll._ss500_crop.jpg In Food Justice, Robert Gottilieb and Anupama Josh make a compelling …
The Co-operative Group is in deep trouble. Its response is to sell off its farms, in defiance of all its founding values. Instead it should reconnect with its original purpose, write Helena Paul & Pete Riley, and seek creative and truly co-operative solutions.
… She has co-authored a number of papers on agriculture, climate change and biodiversity, …
It’s 27 years since fashion’s enfant terrible made headlines by arriving at Downing Street in a protest t-shirt but, as she tells Ruth Styles, Katharine Hamnett is as ready to stand up for the planet as ever
… into the textile industry that found cotton agriculture was responsible for 10,000 (now …
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Dr Frances Kelsey, write Helena Paul & Philip Bereano. In 1960, she defied her bosses at the FDA to prevent the licensing of thalidomide in the USA, saving thousands from being born with serious deformities. Her tough approach to minimising the risk from new drugs contains lessons we ignore at our peril.
… Helena has co-authored a number of papers on agriculture, climate change and biodiversity, …
Jagged peaks, cerulean lochs, plentiful wildlife and wonderful historical treasures have made Scotland a truly magical place to go, say Ruth Styles and Vanessa Jones
… the rest of the UK, the use of pesticides in agriculture and overfishing are serious …
High in fat and with a carbon footprint to match, cow’s milk is neither the greenest or healthiest milk available. So what are the alternatives? Here are 10 of the best
… sheep thrive on hillsides unusable for agriculture, and, like goats, produce far less …