Monthly Archives: April 2011

Increase food production and to mobilise funds to invest in agriculture (New Agriculturist)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=1999 Growing food and fuel crisis must be tackled urgently Two-thirds of developing countries are close to meeting key targets for tackling poverty and hunger but the poorest countries need urgent help, a newly released report from … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security

Opportunities of climate change (IIED)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets/blog/opportunities-climate-change?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28Due+South%3A+IIED+Blog%29 The opportunities of climate change Submitted by Rachel Godfrey Wood It’s not always a great idea to acknowledge that bad things can create opportunities – but they can. Bad things cause suffering and tragedy, but they … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change

Food security as a strategic priority (Sustaiçnable Development in Government)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://sd.defra.gov.uk/2011/04/food-security-as-a-strategic-priority-for-commissioning-and-use-of-evidence/ Food security as a strategic priority for commissioning and use of evidence In the last of his series of articles for SD Scene, Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for Defra, explains why food security is … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security

One Acre Fund: Innovative approaches to empower smallholder farmers

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.atdforum.org/spip.php?article440 One Acre Fund In just four years, One Acre Fund has gone from helping 40 families in Kenya to working with close to 30’000 in Kenya and Rwanda, doubling and tripling harvests on almost every field. … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, small-scale farming

Adverse environmental conditions affect yield more than crop pests and diseases (Science Daily)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110425173844.htm Understanding How Crops Deal With Stress — Yield’s Biggest Enemy ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2011) — Like people, plants experience stress. And also, like people, the response to that stress can determine success. People can exercise, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Desertification, drought, plant diseases

Open Source Ecology (Food for Freedom)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/open-source-ecology-permaculture-and-local-food-systems/ Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Food Systems By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech VIDEO : http://youtu.be/ZtfV5ZdexgE We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology – or what … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, permaculture

The loss of vast areas of rainforest in West Africa (African Agriculture)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/04/dwindling-west-african-rainforest.html Dwindling West African rainforest threatens food security by Joe DeCapua In West Africa, the Guinean Rainforest is rapidly disappearing. A new study says increased production of cocoa, cassava and oil palm has meant more land is … Continue reading →

Posted in deforestation, food / food security

Indoor farming: an answer to the world’s food problems ? (African Agriculture)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/04/future-farm-sunless-rainless-room.html Future farm: a sunless, rainless room indoors by Arthur Max Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security

Small-scale farmers increasingly at risk as land deals ignore local tenure rights (African Agriculture)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/04/small-scale-farmers-at-risk-from-global.html Small-scale farmers at risk from ‘global land grabbing’ by Jun Borras, Ian Scoones and David Hughes New research on the global rush for agricultural land shows small-scale farmers increasingly at risk as land deals ignore local … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, land grab

A farmer covered 130 hectares of the desert with trees (Google / CCTV)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://newscontent.cctv.com/20110426/103416.shtml Fighting desertification A farmer in Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region has spent ten years and over 6 million yuan in planting trees in a desert area of over 130 hectares to … Continue reading →

Posted in afforestation, Desertification