Organic Beats Conventional Agriculture in the Tropics
This study demystifies the myth that organic agriculture needs more space to achieve comparable yields to conventional agriculture.
Remembering The Seeds Of Freedom
Seeds are a gift of nature, the result of centuries of labor by farmers worldwide who have conserved heirloom seeds and thousands of natural varieties. But over the past few decades, legislation restricting access to seeds helped diminish small farmers’ holdings and have established industrial agriculture as globally dominant.
Plants’ Ability to Slow Climate Change Depends on their Fungi
Scientists have discovered why only certain plants can take in extra carbon dioxide when levels rise and help to reduce global warming.
Soil Sequestration
Enhancing the amount of carbon stored in soils can have huge environmental benefits, bringing back nutrients to our soil, removing greenhouse gases from our atmosphere and making our agricultural lands healthier.
How the World’s Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change
Dark earth won’t solve all our climate problems, but combined with reducing fossil fuel use, it could make a huge difference while addressing many agriculture, food security and hunger issues.
John D. Liu Interview: “It is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems.”
"Working with degraded lands to bring the water back, to take dry dust and grow fertile soils, to restore vegetation and biodiversity, to eat healthy delicious food that is not contaminated is the future for the humanity and the Earth if it is to survive. This seems to be the way to engage people in restoration."
How to regenerate organic – privatize it
Organic is the easy route to compliance with the Paris agreement and it regenerates soil for future generations instead of stealing it from them for cheap food today.
Organic food is well worth paying for – for your health as well as nature
The way food is produced has a profound impact on its nutritional profile, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Not only is organic farming better for animal welfare, the environment and wildlife, writes Peter Melchett, but organic meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables all have tangible health benefits for the people who eat them.
Organic Farming Could Feed The World, If Only We Would Let It
When organic farming practices are compared to conventional practices using all four of those metrics, the FOE report argues, the organic practices hold an advantage considering their resilience to increasingly pressing agricultural challenges, including climate change and water scarcity.
There’s Nothing Average About This Year’s Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’
A more ecological approach to farming—mainly, finding ways to protect the soil all year, including perennial crops, agroforestry or cover crops—could be a highly effective strategy to reducing water pollution and ultimately the size of the dead zone.
Harvesting Liberty: Short film explores reintroduction of industrial hemp to US
The return of a historic crop, hemp, could engender not only a resurgence in local economies, but also in the cultivation of crops that are more sustainable for both the farmer and the land itself.
The developing world is awash in pesticides. Does it have to be?
Boosting yields by growing more food on the same area of land inevitably leads to more pesticide use. Of particular concern to many is pesticides’ toll on human health. However, research is showing that farmers can boost yields and eliminate pesticide use entirely.
A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil
Cuba, it turns out, is a rare oasis of organic and sustainable agriculture. For reasons of politics, geography and philosophy, the nation was forced to abandon much of its large-scale, chemical-based farming and replace it with a network of smaller farms and more natural methods.
The enormous threat to America’s last grasslands
North Dakota’s researchers are tallying the ecological cost of the state’s recent economic boom and warn that the ecosystem could be nearing a tipping point as corn and soybeans continue their march north into the last vast stretches of prairie pothole grassland in the eastern Dakotas — more than 90 percent of which is privately owned.
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