Food Shortages
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Dr. Vandana Shiva on Just Food
This is a good summary of what Vandana Shiva talks about lately. Even if you think you’ve heard it all…
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons…
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Field Notes From Amazonia
by Noah Sabich, Eco-Ola The placement of your feet on the wooden boards is essential; frequent use and infrequent maintenance…
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China’s Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Where was once pristine Amazon rainforest, soybean harvesters march across the landscape instead…
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Food MythBusters – Do We Really Need Industrial Agriculture to Feed the World? (video)
Further Reading: A Farm for the Future (BBC video) The Rodale Institute’s 30-Year Farming Systems Trial Report Biodiverse Systems are…
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Local Spotlight: But Don’t We Need Economic Growth to Lift the Poor Out of Poverty? (Ghana)
This article was originally published on the Post Growth Institute Website. Farmers planting nitrogen fixing trees on their farms As…
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Permaculture Forest Garden, Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria
Since 2011 the Adunni Susanne Wenger Foundation in Nigeria, in Cooperation with the German NGO SONED Brandenburg e.V., built up…
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Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Encroaching Gobi desert When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of…
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Line in the Sand (Video)
We often only begin to understand the importance of nutrient- and water-cycling when they don’t — when they don’t cycle,…
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Flow – For the Love of Water (Documentary)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmWdco0glEA As permaculturists, we have a great many solutions for the water crisis. From water harvesting to reed bed grey…
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The Edible City
I believe that we will need to produce food in our urban centres, because I can’t figure out how else…
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