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March 14, 2011

Long Island Organic Farmers Promote LI Small Farm Summit

LongIslandPress.com By Missy Yates In an unprecedented partnership that demonstrates the growing power of Long Island’s local food movement, three organizations representing the diversity of ...

March 10, 2011

Organic Grazing War — an Economic Overview

In the 1980s, farmers and others on the organic food chain worried about free-riders using unsustainable methods, while touting their produce as ‘natural’ or ‘organic’ ...

March 10, 2011

Wendell Berry Receives Humanities Medal from Obama

Courier-Journal Written by James R. Carroll WASHINGTON — Kentucky author Wendell Berry was honored at the White House Wednesday for his writings and conservation advocacy, ...

March 9, 2011

Maine Town Passes Landmark Local Food Ordinance

Sedgwick becomes first town in Maine to adopt protections Food For Maine’s Future SEDGWICK, MAINE – On Saturday, March 5, residents of a small coastal ...

March 8, 2011

Eco-Farming Can Double Food Production in 10 Years, Says New UN Report

SRFood.org GENEVA – Small-scale farmers can double food production within 10 years in critical regions by using ecological methods, a new UN report* shows. Based ...

March 8, 2011

U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World’s Food Production

SlashFood by Clare Leschin-Hoar The United Nations released a whopper of a report today. In the midst of soaring global food and oil prices, the ...

March 7, 2011

Proposed Budget Cuts Make Organic Farmers Wary

Santa Cruz Sentinel By JENNIFER PITTMAN WATSONVILLE — For Jennifer Robinson, the new owner of a seven-acre pinot noir vineyard in Watsonville, federal budget proposals ...

March 7, 2011

Cancer Rise and Sperm Quality Fall ‘Due To Chemicals’

BBC News Sperm quality significantly deteriorated and testicular cancers increased over recent years, a Finnish study says. The study in the International Journal of Andrology ...

March 1, 2011

USDA Approved Monsanto Alfalfa Despite Warnings of New Pathogen Discovered in Genetically Engineered Crops

Truthout by: Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t | Report Just two weeks before the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) fully ...

February 28, 2011

California’s Food System. Where Is It Headed?

Roots of Change Michael Dimock Roots of Change (ROC) president, Michael Dimock, had the pleasure to interview one of the leading figures in the food ...

February 28, 2011

Texas Landowners Stuck on Wrong Side of Border Fence

In and around Brownsville, Rio Grande farm and pastureland — even some homes — end up on the ‘Mexican’ side of the Homeland Security Department’s ...

February 21, 2011

EU to Vote on Admitting GM Food

Wall Street Journal By Caroline Henshaw LONDON—After years of political wrangling by European Union policy makers, rising food prices may be putting genetically modified, or ...