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Tag Archives: food
Greener Revolution
How do we feed more people? The answer in the 1960s was the so-called “green revolution” – a pretty name for industrial agriculture: more chemical fertilizers and pesticides on certain mono-crops to max out yields. It worked: developing countries went … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, fao, food, save and grow, smallholder farmers, sustainable crop production intensification
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Eat Your Park?
This NYT story may be a quirky diversion about a few people foraging for edible plants in parks…or a harbinger of what could become general as we head into an uncertain food future. It reminds me of the Tragedy of … Continue reading
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Tagged commons, edible landscaping, food, new york times, public parks, tragegy of the commons
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Quinoa All Get Some?
Quinoa is not a grain after all, I learned from reading this NY Times piece. It’s a chenopod. Now you know. It’s also delicious, and packed with nutrients. No wonder it’s getting the star treatment from good food fans around … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, farm, food, international development, organic, quinoa
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High Cost of Food = Chaos
More voices are making the connection between the failure of the global agribusiness-run food system and global unrest. This is from Al Jazeera English. Remember when CNN rode its live coverage of the U.S. military campaign Desert Storm to become … Continue reading
Food plus Banks equals Hunger
Three years ago it was a puzzle when the food price crisis starved millions. It was a time of record harvests; the world never had so much food. Turns out speculators — the same banks, hedge funds and capitalist investors … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, farm, food, hedge funds, hunger, politics, speculators, urban farming
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Fight for Urban Farm
Is it a yard or farm? That’s the question being asked near Nanaimo and throughout British Columbia as a 2.5 acre organic farm has been given 90 days to shut down because…it’s a farm, when it’s supposed a yard. The … Continue reading
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Tagged dirk becker, food, lantzville, nanaimo, urban agriculture, urban farming
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Go Green Interview
The VanGoGreen site has posted an author interview with me for the urban agriculture series I did on a Tyee fellowship. Questions are from Robert Oimet, the ace sound/vid man who put together CBC3. Check out the VanGoGreen site here. … Continue reading