If re-written with a vision to embrace solutions to lower greenhouse gas emissions, abate carbon dioxide, use nature to address the Climate and Biodiversity emergencies, and encourage local food production, the Romsey Structure Plan would provide a blue print for sustainable development within town boundaries across the shire and give resident families the life styles they move to the shire to experience.
Read MoreBy James Nason Scientists from around the world gathered in Dublin in October 2022 to examine negative claims regularly levelled
Read MoreTo feed and nourish the whole world, we will need to significantly increase the productivity of small-scale livestock systems.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreCrowdfunding can enable youth and women in agriculture to raise funds from multiple individuals through donations, presales/rewards, debt, or equity.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBy 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.
Read MoreUnder 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreNuffield 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.
Read MoreFood 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.
Read MoreBy Carol Richards In his book, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan advises “don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise
Read MoreThe emerging embodiment of malnutrition By Lauren Power The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as ‘a condition of abnormal
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis While it is fashionable for most scientists, columnists and politicians to support the contention that the world’s
Read More– but outlook for higher beef consumption subdued By Lester R. Brown More than a quarter of all the meat
Read MoreBy John Boulter According to the World Bank, China’s population in 2011 was 1.34 billion. This is expected to grow
Read MoreNew look services critical for food production After decades of decline in public support for farmer extension services in developing
Read MoreNew evidence points to robust but uneven productivity growth in global agriculture By Keith Fuglie and Sun Ling Wang Improving
Read MoreDespite US drought world corn production is second highest on record By Patrick Francis The claims regularly made by politicians
Read MoreThe United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Dr Olivier De Schutter, made a submission to the
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