To mark World Food Day 2016, the United Nations is highlighting the close links between climate change, sustainable agriculture, and food and nutrition security.
A message of hope: how farmers can reverse global climate change.
America’s farmers, we are told, must double their production of meat products and grains to “feed the world.” Otherwise, people will go hungry.
After decades of degenerative and soil eroding practices introduced by the green revolution, African farmers are turning to Agroecology to regenerate soils and feed their communities.
The team at Climate Foundation India proposes to make biochar out of paddy straw and wheat residue as an alternative to farmers burning crop residue in open fires. Creating biochar from crop residue greatly reduces pollution and enriches the soil by putting carbon back into it.
Food is becoming unhealthy and poisoned with chemicals, while diets are becoming less diverse.
Upstream forests, wetlands and other “natural infrastructure” play a critical role in supplying clean water downstream.
Waste water, pesticide run-off and pollution threatens people across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Regulation, data and business action are needed.
Southern California was ready to burn. El Niño rains that topped off reservoirs in the north of the state barely drizzled down south, leaving the region in a worst-in-centuries drought.
In 1981, Bill Mollison, the co-founder of permaculture, won the Right Livelihood Award. This is his acceptance speech. It explains his motivations, how he began the global permaculture movement from nothing and his determination to find solutions amid ecological collapse.