The world can't afford to keep wasting soil
- Late last year, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the state of the world's soil and water resources. The bottomline: 25 per cent of the...
View ArticleA Quiet Push to Grow Crops Under Cover of Trees
HELENA, Mont. — On a forested hill in the mountains north of Montana’s capital, beneath a canopy of pine and spruce, Marc and Gloria Flora have planted more than 300 smaller trees, from apple and pear...
View ArticleAnalysis: Prices drive soy farming into Brazil cattle country
NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil (Reuters) - Farmers like Endrigo Dalcin are so keen to plant Brazil's biggest-ever soybean crop that they are tearing down the fences around once-sacred territory: pastures that...
View ArticleTo feed the world and save the planet, eat less meat! (and 4 more necessities)
Editor's Note: Stewart Patrick is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Weak...
View ArticleFeeding the World Through Smarter Agriculture
How can we meet the world's increasing demands for food, water and energy without degrading the natural systems we depend on for survival? Last week, I had the privilege of addressing this question at...
View ArticleFeeding the Planet Without Destroying It
Climate change is the environmental problem that obsesses us, the one that's the focus of high-flying international summits and hardcore national politics. But it's not the only environmental problem...
View ArticleU researcher offers ideas to feed world without ruining planet
How do you feed 9 billion people without destroying the planet? Transform the global food system in the next 40 years by using crops to feed people instead of fattening livestock and producing fuel;...
View ArticleResearcher offers ideas to feed world without ruining planet
How do you feed 9 billion people without destroying the planet? Transform the global food system in the next 40 years by using crops to feed people instead of fattening livestock and producing fuel;...
View ArticleEthanol Investigation: The Secret, Dirty Cost Of Obama's Green Power Push
CORYDON, Iowa -- CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump...
View ArticleThe dirty cost of President Obama's green power push
By DINA CAPPIELLO and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the...
View ArticleThe secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push
Posted on November 12, 2013 at 12:44 pm by Associated Press in Barack Obama, biofuel, Biofuels Share this: CommentsEmailPrint0 Ethanol's environmental damage Share this gallery: 1 of 19 Share this...
View Article>The secret environmental cost of US ethanol policy
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into...
View ArticleThe secret environmental cost of US ethanol policy
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) -- The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into...
View ArticleThe secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into...
View Article>The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into...
View ArticleThe secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push
CORYDON, Iowa — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the...
View ArticleNew Report Offers Menu of Solutions to Close the Global Food Gap (UNEP -...
(Source: UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme) Actions Needed to Improve Food Production and Consumption to Close the Projected 70 Percent Gap by 2050 JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON? New research...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Cheap Meat
Nothing changes — whatever familiar measures are announced after every food scandal, once the politicians, manufacturers and retailers have made their claims and counterclaims, and after we’ve gone...
View ArticleHigh crop prices turn more grassland into cropland
When cattle producer Jason Zahn aims his pickup across the gravel roads of North Dakota, he doesn't see as many native grasses dancing along the prairie. Instead, he sees more and more black. He sees...
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