Reuters video covers alternative agriculture: one small organic dairy farmer’s fund raising efforts in New York.
News: ‘Food & Agriculture’ Archive
Entrepreneur's Edge: Milk Thistle | Video | Reuters.com
Sunday, July 19th, 2009William S. Becker: Obama's Farm Team
Thursday, July 9th, 2009‘Members of the Obama Administration have embarked on a “listening tour” in rural America this summer, but let’s hope the visits involve more than listening. This is a moment for the Administration’s top officials to engage farmers, ranchers and rural residents in a robust exchange of ideas about their role in a new American economy.’
BBC NEWS | Vegetarians ‘avoid more cancers’
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009‘Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer but this does not apply to all forms of the disease, a major study has found.’
Brazil's Lula signs Amazon bill | BBC NEWS
Friday, June 26th, 2009‘Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has approved a controversial bill allowing Amazon farmers to acquire an area of public land larger than France.’
Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms – NYTimes.com
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009‘A terrific new documentary, “Food, Inc.,” playing in cinemas nationwide, offers a powerful and largely persuasive diagnosis of American agriculture. Go see it, but be warned that you may not want to eat for a week afterward.’
via Op-Ed Columnist – Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms – NYTimes.com.
Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In (Video)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Food, Inc. is a movie everybody's talking about, which opens today in New York, LA and San Fransisco. The film explores the dark underbelly of the what actually goes into that piece of chicken, soda, hamburger or chips that we often don't think twice about popping into our mouths.
via Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In (Video).
Report – The Relevance of Chinese Agricultural Technologies for African Smallholder Farmers
Thursday, June 4th, 2009There is a new agricultural report from the University of Stellenbosch Center for Chinese Studies, “The Relevance of Chinese Agricultural Technologies for African Smallholder Farmers: Agricultural Technology Research in China”
Excerpt: ‘The study team considers that water and soil related technologies offer the best Chinese examples for transfer to Africa. Africa is generally a water-challenged land, and soil degradation is a problem. Here China offers packages that can be applied, especially when focusing on small-scale farmers. This includes water saving and augmenting techniques, tillage and planting methods, soil enhancing methods such as mulching, and the maximisation of fertilizer usage by soil testing and application techniques. For the purposes of this research we have not studied mechanisation techniques, and only touched upon rural energy sources, but consider there are some lessons here to be learned. Similarly, we feel that Chinese aquaculture has much to offer Africa.’
When ‘Local’ Makes It Big – NYTimes.com
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009On Tuesday, five potato farmers rang the bell of the New York Stock Exchange, kicking off a marketing campaign that is trying to position the nation’s best-selling brand of potato chips as local food.