Wired by Danielle Venton Source: Texas A & M AgriLife Research California’s Central Valley farmers have a problem. Agriculture accounts for about 80 percent of the state’s water consumption, and in the midst of a historic drought, it is the largest potential source of water savings. Farmers want to be good stewards of the land by… Read more »
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Only Agroecology Can Tackle the Global Food and Health Crisis
Ecologist by Dr. Julia Wright Source: WESSA The recently published Global Nutrition Report shows almost all countries face high levels of malnutrition and diet-based ill-health, writes Julia Wright. This reveals deep problems with the dominant industrial model of food production, and the need for new agroecological approaches to feeding the world. The current global food crisis… Read more »
Invader Batters Rural America, Shrugging Off Herbicides
New York Times By Michael Wines WHEATFIELD, Ind. — The Terminator — that relentless, seemingly indestructible villain of the 1980s action movie — is back. And he is living amid the soybeans at Harper Brothers Farms. About 100 miles northwest of Indianapolis, amid 8,000 lush acres farmed by Dave Harper, his brother Mike and their… Read more »
Robo-Calls Bother Organic Farmers During Spring Planting:
Latest Push for Check-off by Powerful Organic Lobby Group The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has launched the next phase of its push for an organic check-off program. The industry lobby group, funded by the likes of General Mills, WhiteWave, Organic Valley and Smucker’s, has been working the phone lines, robo-calling thousands of organic farmers across… Read more »
Scientists Frustrated by Factory Farms: Scientific Evidence of their Non-Sustainability Mounts
Pulse by Jim Lundstrom A factory dairy near Phoenix, AZ Professor Robert Lawrence is in a select company of researchers. “I think the only other group of scientists who probably are more frustrated than we are are the climate scientists,” Lawrence said in a recent telephone call. Lawrence is director of the Johns Hopkins Center… Read more »
Horizon “Organic” Factory Farm Accused of Improprieties, Again
Selective Enforcement by USDA Alleged — Kid Glove Treatment for Dean Foods/WhiteWave In an open letter published today and addressed to USDA National Organic Program chief Miles McEvoy, The Cornucopia Institute accused the regulatory agency of abdicating its enforcement responsibilities. Cornucopia, an organic industry watchdog, charged that the USDA had allowed Dean Foods and its… Read more »
10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
Huffington Post By Lester R. Brown October 16 is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition and poverty. With falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is… Read more »
Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected
New York Times By Stephen Castle and Doreen Carvajal GREAT DALBY, England — Invisible from the roadway, hidden deep in the lush English countryside, Moscow Farm is an unlikely base for an international organized crime gang churning out a dangerous brew of fake vodka. But a quarter of a mile off a one-lane road here,… Read more »
Pesticide Poisoning Our Children Was Out, Now Maybe Back In
Cornucopia’s Take: After five years of study, the EPA found that the commonly used pesticide chlorpyrifos is likely causing lasting harm to our children, in utero. With President Trump’s planned regulatory cuts, it is unclear whether chlorpyrifos manufacturers, Dow Chemical, may be able to override science and continue to peddle their lucrative toxic chemical. Protect… Read more »
UN/WHO Panel in Conflict of Interest Row over Glyphosate Cancer Risk
The Guardian by Arthur Neslen Source: 401kcalculator Chairman of UN’s joint meeting on pesticide residues co-runs scientific institute which received donation from Monsanto, which uses glyphosate A UN panel that on Tuesday ruled that glyphosate was probably not carcinogenic to humans has now become embroiled in a bitter row about potential conflicts of interests. It… Read more »
