Agriculture World

Stewart Brand's Environmental Heresies: A maverick environmentalist advocates saving the planet via nuclear power, mass urbanization, genetically engineered food, and geoengineering.(Book review)
The Futurist; 1/1/2010; 1187 words; ...Green," he says. For example, urban farming and rooftop agriculture have their roots in squatter cities, where such practices...property law, which can prevent farmers in the developing world from taking full advantage of agricultural aid. Taking his...

Finding Beauty in a Broken World.(Book review)
Earth Island Journal; 1/1/2010; 1094 words; Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams 432...Finding Beauty in a Broken World is a meditation on the ecology...expansion of industrial animal agriculture, especially cattle. During...most pernicious enemies to agriculture." In economic terms the prairie...

Low-hanging fruit: can collecting leftover produce help us re-envision the world?(gleaning)
Earth Island Journal; 1/1/2010; 2417 words; ...Kirschenmann, Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. In the United States, a lot of...connected to their community, and discover a new way of seeing the world. One of the volunteers Small Potatoes Gleaning counts on is...

Variable temperatures leave insects with a frosty reception.
NewsRx Science; 12/27/2009; 669 words; ...interpreting and predicting climatic change effects in the natural world." Climate change in Ontario is expected to decrease the amount...and agricultural pests. Keywords: AT&T, Agricultural, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climatic Change, Conservation...

From farm to firm to fork.
Business Today More (New Delhi, India); 12/27/2009; 1381 words; ...ever, but also a period when agriculture output fluctuated most wildly...complete transformation of Indian agriculture in the next decade, and beyond...some of the burden of massive agriculture-related subsidies. It will...become the food factory of the world. To understand how much of...