In Indonesia the successful GGL/small holder farmer model feeding pineapple and other food processing wastes with multiple livestock options to allow full participation at all levels within the community is simply miraculous.
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A world analysis of the feed consumption of all livestock classes shows that the bulk of their diets are supplied by pasture, browse, food processing wastes and bi-products. Just 13% is supplied by grains that could be used for human food production.
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Crowdfunding can enable youth and women in agriculture to raise funds from multiple individuals through donations, presales/rewards, debt, or equity.
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The rapid rise of urban food markets across sub-Saharan Africa represents an unparalleled opportunity to drive development of African agriculture, according to conveners of the African Green Revolution Forum.
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By Tony Gleeson. We endlessly promote our ecological sustainability – through the ‘clean green’ mantra. Yet of all the features the green feature is the one least verified. It is the one least linked to particular products or producers. It is not traceable.
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Under the China Australia Free Trade agreement tariffs currently levied on Australian beef, offals, hides and live cattle will be eliminated over four to 10 years.
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A new initiative coming out of Melbourne, and reaching across the world, is the Open Food Network, – aiming to put some access to the food value chain back into the hands of farmers and link their products to consumers.
Read moreThe Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef’s “Draft Principles & Criteria for Global Sustainable Beef” has few additional features to offer the world’s beef consumers.
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For me the live export issue boils down to looking after livestock in a way which respects their natural behaviour and guarantees no cruelty take place from farm to slaughter in an abattoir.
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Nuffield Scholar Aaron Sanderson has injected some practical farming home truths into claims that Australia’s Top End can become a food bowl for Asia. His research found that in comparison with tropical agriculture in developing countries northern Australia has many drawbacks and small holders farmers are far more efficient at food production than they are generally given credit for.
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Food production in developing countries is going to increase significantly to help meet domestic demand and export countries will need to compete more strongly in their food value-added offers.
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By Carol Richards In his book, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan advises “don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise
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The emerging embodiment of malnutrition By Lauren Power The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as ‘a condition of abnormal
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By Patrick Francis While it is fashionable for most scientists, columnists and politicians to support the contention that the world’s
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– but outlook for higher beef consumption subdued By Lester R. Brown More than a quarter of all the meat
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By John Boulter According to the World Bank, China’s population in 2011 was 1.34 billion. This is expected to grow
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New look services critical for food production After decades of decline in public support for farmer extension services in developing
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New evidence points to robust but uneven productivity growth in global agriculture By Keith Fuglie and Sun Ling Wang Improving
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Despite US drought world corn production is second highest on record By Patrick Francis The claims regularly made by politicians
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Dr Olivier De Schutter, made a submission to the
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