My question is “how can farmers make a difference?” POTENTIALLY agriculture could repair global warming by catching and sequestering warmth, light and carbon dioxide. However, the cultural belief is our only choice is to bare more and more soil, plow, erode, and wage war with chemicals to feed the world’s increasing billions. A few people, such …. more
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‘You eat 30 kilos of soil every day …’ – Julian Cribb
Julian Cribb FTSE EVERY meal you eat now costs the planet 10 kilos of topsoil author and science writer Julian Cribb will tell New Zealand and Australian soil scientists meeting in Queenstown, NZ on December 15, 2016. “Ten kilos of topsoil, 800 litres of water, 1.3 litres of diesel, 0.3g of pesticide and 3.5 kilos of …. more
A legacy of lessons – a 40 year retrospective
By Hugh Lovel RECENTLY I found myself greeted as an elder, a survivor of an era of transition in agriculture where many of the old hands and articulate voices are falling by the wayside. Over the past 40 years things have truly changed in eco farming. When I embraced the land my goal was growing …. more
Assessing the glyphosate spin
By Graeme Sait THE internet is pregnant with the potential to deliver us from apathy and misinformation. With the promise of an unlimited, uncensored smorgasbord of information, we should no longer live like mushrooms, fed dung in the dark. It seems that enlightenment is now within the grasp of everyone, but . . . Although …. more
GM contamination judgement day
STEVE Marsh’s loss in the Marsh v Baxter case today by a 2 to 1 vote of the judges just confirms that the Barnett government sold out organic and GM-free farmers. Common law and the courts can’t deliver a fair remedy to family farmers for GM contamination of organic and GM-free farms. “Monsanto and the …. more
GMOs in Kenya: A red herring for agricultural development policy
KENYAN MPs are calling to lift the national ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) only two years after then President Kibaki sanctioned restrictions on their production and importation. The potential of GM products as a food security solution is unclear, however, and serves as a headline grabbing distraction from the raft of structural problems that compound risks to …. more
