Monthly Archives: October 2010

Desperate need of agricultural practices that are climate friendly (UPI)

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/10/29/FAO-Climate-friendly-ag-sector-needed/UPI-40701288354523/ FAO: Climate-friendly ag sector needed ROME, Oct. 29 (UPI) — The international community is in desperate need of agricultural practices that are climate friendly, a United Nations’ food agency report concluded. Alexander Mueller, the assistant director … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, urban agriculture/farming

Urban Gardening Is Hip (Food Voices / Food for Freedom)

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

Read at : http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/food-voices-urban-gardening-is-hip/ Food Voices: Urban Gardening Is Hip By Andrianna Natsoulas https://www.whyhunger.org/news-and-alerts/why-reporter/1129-food-voices-urban-gardening-is-hip.html First installment in a series. In 2008, William Gardener started gardening in his backyard in Detroit, Michigan. He now has a total of 1.4 acres. At … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, urban agriculture/farming

Food security: the future for urban farming is today in Japan (City Farmer News)

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/30/japan-todays-picture-of-the-day/ Japan Today’s picture of the day Linked by Michael Levenston An employee harvests vegetables grown under Hybrid Electrode Fluroescent Lamps (HEFL) inside an office of Pasona Group, an employment and staffing company in Tokyo. Vegetables, fruits … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, urban agriculture/farming

Qatar : commitment to drought mitigation, combating desertification and land degradation (Google / Gulf Times)

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=395545&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 Quatar will take steps to ensure food security Qatar has renewed its call and commitment to drought mitigation and to combating desertification and land degradation. As a member of “World Alliance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, drought, food / food security, land / land degradation

The Gulf is growing more and more dependent on imported food (Green Prophet)

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/gulf-imported-food/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 A Growing Gulf Dependent on Imported Food adam gonn – the media line Skyscrapers (even rotating!) and dreams of vertical farms, but not a greenhouse to be seen. The Gulf is growing more and more dependent … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security

From Belgian pumpkin seeds (“Seeds for Food”-action) to juicy pumpkins in Mali (Marc PILLE / Willem Van Cotthem)

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

My good friend Marc PILLE took some of the seeds, collected through the action “Seeds for Food”, to his development project in Mali (West Africa). Here are some photos of the successes booked with pumpkin seeds from Belgium:

Posted in family gardens, Gardening / Horticulture, vegetables

How can agriculture be transformed to achieve food security and climate change goals? (FAO)

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Read at : http://faoclimatechange.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/feeding-the-world-in-a-changing-climate/ Feeding the world in a changing climate How can agriculture be transformed to achieve food security and climate change goals? This is the main question that will be posed during the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Climate / climate change, FAO, food / food security

THREElittleSTEPS (PSFK)

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/threelittlesteps-eliminating-waste-from-the-environment-three-steps-a-time-using-the-power-of-facebook-to-eliminate-waste-from-the-environment.html Using The Power Of Facebook To Eliminate Waste From The Environment THREElittleSTEPS is a brilliantly-conceptualized green project that leverages Facebook’s reach to clean the environment. The project invites people to join its movement of picking up … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology - environment, pollution

Helping small-scale farmers to improve farming practices and create financial incentives to take better care of the soil (La Vida Locavore)

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4150/improving-the-harvest-from-the-soil-to-the-market Improving the Harvest, From the Soil to the Market “Farmers are seeing that they can do this on the small level and it’s making them think and act bigger. Now they are improving things all on … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security, Soil

France : INRA is stopping all development of GM crops (Food Freedom)

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Read at : http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/french-ag-research-center-quits-gm-foods-due-to-public-rejection-hostility/ French Ag Research Center quits GM foods due to public rejection, hostility And innovative low-tech sustainable agroecological approaches continue to push up crop yields on poor farms across the world By GM Watch INRA – the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security, GMO