This recent article on Ozy.com discusses a growing number of both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that are finding new ways for farmers to make money, and in the process to renew the land they use. In a Zambian valley 61,000 small scale farmers are paid 20% over the market price in return for not killing certain animals. …
Category archives: Food
New ways of growing food
Four stories about new, more sustainable models for farming, from four countries across Europe:
Agroforestry is crucial to the food production challenge
The IPCC’s latest report says that that climate change has “already affected agriculture, human health, ecosystems on land and in the oceans, water supplies, and some people’s livelihoods.” In agriculture the solution lies in complexity, which promises a resilience to extremes which fragile monocrop systems can’t match. Farmers know that producing many different crops protects them from …
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Climate change and human survival
Even the British Medical Journal is talking about climate change. “The IPCC has already concluded that it is ‘virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system’ and … its new report outlines the future threats of… increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of …
The food challenge
An interesting interview here with Brussels-based agriculture expert, Patrick Worms. “Ensuring food security for the 10 or 11 billion people that will soon live on a planet buffeted by climate change,” he says, “is a challenge which no single technological breakthrough will be able to meet on its own. We’re going to need everything.” For …