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Break agriculture's chemical monopolies to free our food
Keep looking - there's a new way of farming in there somewhere. Geoff Caddick/PA Current farming methods rely too much on expensive chemicals such as fertiliser and pesticides; agroecology combines the...
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How to feed nine billion people, and feed them well
We need more, but more of what? Perhaps not this. David Giles/PAResource-intensive agriculture, despite its productivity, nevertheless has failed to feed the world’s current population, never mind the...
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Deforestation and the rise of industrial-scale farming in Africa could lie...
Peril from the forests. EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, CC BY-SAThe growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a...
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Buen Vivir: South America's rethinking of the future we want
Drawing inspiration from Buen Vivir, this mural is by the famous Brigada Ramona Parra, a political street art collective in Chile. Alternautus, CC BY-NC-SATwo years ago heads of state and government...
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How low-tech farming innovations can make African farmers climate-resilient
Community education is a vital part of the Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project. Carmen Bezner Kerr, Author providedScientists, politicians and the Pope are not the only ones calling for action...
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A win for air quality in Paris summit, but climate-smart agriculture still lags
Aided by expanded farming in Asia, there's been a global increase in greenhouse gases from farming. asiandevelopmentbank/flickr, CC BY-NC-NDEnvironmental problems are usually multifaceted and complex....
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Disease may wipe out world's bananas – but here's how we might just save them
Vanatchanan / shutterstockCatastrophe is looming for the banana industry. A new strain has emerged of a soil-borne fungus known as “Panama disease” which can wipe out entire plantations – and it is...
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If the world's soils keep drying out that's bad news for microbes (and people)
The world's driest areas are tipped to get even drier, with potentially worrying implications for soil productivity. Author providedDeep beneath our feet, out of sight and out of mind, millions of tiny...
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Parasitic flies, zombified ants, predator beetles – insect drama on Mexican...
Azteca ants, unsung heroes of coffee pest control. Kate Mathis, CC BY-NDAnts are voracious predators and often very good at defending plants from herbivores. People have taken advantage of this quirk...
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We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided – so...
Mariano Villafane/Shutterstock.comAs the world races toward a projected 9 billion inhabitants, the failings of dominant food systems are impossible to deny. Current food production methods are...
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Why developing countries should boost the ways of small-scale farming
A diversity of seeds on sale in Nanyuki market, Kenya. K Dekeyser Industrial agriculture – farming that involves the intensive production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops – is one of the most...
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The future of food is ready for harvest
In this July 2011 photo, an Inuit fisherman pulls in a fish on a sea filled with floating ice. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)For more than 20 years, a movement has been building that recognizes the vital...
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The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know
Kletr/Shutterstock.comIt is widely agreed that today’s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen...
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How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
City Farm is a working sustainable farm that has operated in Chicago for over 30 years. Linda from Chicago/Wikimedia, CC BYDuring the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news...
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Pasha 16: Small-scale farming and agroecology
The intensive production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops, is environmentally damaging. This is because industrial farming can affect the soil, water and climate. The answer lies in promoting...
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Eight ways to halt a global food crisis
Stockr/Shutterstock.comThere are serious challenges to global food supply everywhere we look. Intensive use of fertilisers in the US Midwest is causing nutrients to run off into rivers and streams,...
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Taking back the hills: a tale of women rights and lands in the Catalan Pyrenees
Montse Barado, casa Armengol (Sorpe). In summer, once a week, cattle ranchers and shepherds climb to the communal lands to have a look at the animals and give them some salt. David Tarrasón i Cerdá, ,...
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Three ways farms of the future can feed the planet and heal it too
Nature and technology can combine to help farms of the future nourish the earth and its inhabitants.SimplyDay/ShutterstockIntensive agriculture may be nourishing most of the Earth’s inhabitants, but...
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Break agriculture's chemical monopolies to free our food
Keep looking - there's a new way of farming in there somewhere.Geoff Caddick/PA Current farming methods rely too much on expensive chemicals such as fertiliser and pesticides; agroecology combines the...
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How to feed nine billion people, and feed them well
We need more, but more of what? Perhaps not this.David Giles/PAResource-intensive agriculture, despite its productivity, nevertheless has failed to feed the world’s current population, never mind the...
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