Musings on sustainable food systems, agriculture vs. agroecology, and more!
Chances are, you would be hard-pressed to place nations such as Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, Palau, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Tuvalu on a map. However, these eight tiny Pacific island-states might be decisive in protecting one of the last remaining healthy tuna fisheries in the world, as this article reports.
In the end, the strongest economic argument for an aggressive response to climate change is not the much trumpeted windfall of green jobs. Its the fact that the economy won’t function very well in a world full of droughts, hurricanes and heat waves. David Leonhardt on the need for decisive political action to tackle climate … Continue reading In the end, the…
A friend of mine sent me a link to this paper titled “Ready-to-use food-allocation policy to reduce the effects of childhood undernutrition in developing countries” – originally more as a “look at what weird things get published” link, but as I read through the abstract, it got me thinking…
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. Masanobu Fukoaka