Desertification
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Pseudo-grains for Lesotho – Permaculture Design for Disaster
Quinoa This year’s very dry autumn, winter and spring in Lesotho is ringing alarm bells throughout the country. The capital…
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Surviving Global Warming – Localized Food & Energy Systems in Nature’s Circular Economy
Record-breaking heat waves destroying harvests and worse predicted, localized food and energy systems urgently needed if we are to survive.…
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Chalback Reg-Op Lesotho
Chalback Reg-Op Lesotho is the story about a sustainable farming system suitable for Lesotho and other similar regions of southern…
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The Global Land Rush
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Between 2007 and mid-2008, world grain and soybean prices more than doubled. As…
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Paradigm Shift Urgently Needed In Agriculture – UN Agencies Call for an End to Industrial Agriculture & Food System
A rising chorus from UN agencies on how food security, poverty, gender inequality and climate change can all be addressed…
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The Atacama Desert, Chile: the Driest Desert on Earth – Five Reasons Why
Atacama desert As a definition, a desert is a hot area of land that gets very little rain — not…
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Paradise Lost
Many of us who have been paying attention to the state of the world over the last half century have…
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Humanitarian Vetiver Project, East Sumba, Indonesia
Lined up for free treatment I am a young Christian missionary doctor on the Island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia.…
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It’s a Forest, You Just Can’t See It
An aerial view of a goat farm in the desert outside Dubai, a landscape that would benefit from Tony Rinaudo’s…
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Grain Yields Starting to Plateau
Editor’s Note: As regular readers will know, I don’t agree 100% with everything I post to the site. The article…
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Endgame Strategy
Why the Revolution Must Start in America The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, the hunger…
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Food or Fuel?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute At the time of the Arab oil export embargo in the 1970s, the…
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