The EU's farming policy is being touted as 'greener than ever' - but it's no such thing, write Lynn Dicks & Tim Benton. The 'green reforms' pay farmers for actions (and often inactions) that do not benefit wildlife, and contain no real or effective measures to help.
… Dicks Tim Benton | 17th June 2014 Comment Farming Natural World Biodiversity EU farm-ludlow-cut.jpg The EU's farming policy is being touted as 'greener … As part of a team of environmental and farming experts from across the EU, we …
Already 56,000 people have pledged to support a global 'internet seed swap' initiative promoted by Avaaz, writes Julian Rose. Trouble is, the plans are deeply flawed, and have been developed without consultation with major seed saving groups worldwide.
… Julian Rose | 16th July 2014 Comment Food Farming Biodiversity GMOs Corporations … of what actually goes on in the food and farming sector and thus become a vector of … Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, international activist and author. He …
Patented and 'indentured' seeds are fast taking over the world's food supply, write Jack Kloppenburg & Irwin Goldman, terminating farmers' and gardeners' ancient right to develop new varieties, and forcing them to buy seed anew for every crop. Enter the Open Source Seed Initiative ...
… Irwin Goldman | 20th August 2014 Comment Food Farming Commons USA Biodiversity … plant breeding has always been a core part of farming and gardening. Farmers would freely …
Recent decades have seen a hardening global clampdown on the rights of farmers to use, save, develop, share, swap and distribute the seeds that produce the food we all eat, writes Andrew Kimbrell - and which constitute an essential common heritage of mankind. Here's his plan to fight back against the seed monopolists ...
A Pennsylvania seed library stands accused of 'agri-terrorism' over alleged breaches of the Seed Act 2004, reports a bemused Kevin Carson. Have USDA and state agriculture departments become the enforcement branch of the agribusiness crime syndicate?
… Kevin Carson | 13th August 2014 Comment Farming Biodiversity USA Law Regulation …
A string of events earlier this year provided a sobering snapshot of a global climate system out of whack, writes Peter Fisher. Could it represent the end of a rare 10,000 year island of stability in global climate? If so, we had better get used to it. The Earth may never be so comfortable again ...
… The relatively static shorelines have made farming, fishing, towns and cities possible. … their homes and sustenance in order to boost farming production . That would leave us …
The white rhino is in deep trouble after a new surge of poaching. But the fact that it's there at all is largely thanks to one man: Ian Player, who saved the white rhino from near-certain extinction in the 1960's. Earlier this year Nicola Graydon met Dr Player at his home in South Africa, to record his last major interview.
… the country. Scientists have also advocated farming rhino to harvest their horns - which …