Food

The Pesticide Action Network reports from Penang on the threat to China's staple food.…

Doors of perception…

Wet and cool UK summer: people gloomy but garden prospers…

The rain was pouring down, no surprises there, as I made chutney onSaturday from our garden’s produce – courgettes that had swollen intomarrows, windfall apples of various types and shapes, a few carrots andonions, plus some sultanas and a bit of ginger and cinnamon…

As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on biomass…

Lies, food & the poor by *Eduardo Galeano*…

Gustava Esteva, one of Mexico's most distinguished economists andsenior civil servants during the 1970s, gave it all up to live thesimple life of a traditional peasant on three acres of land in thevillage of San Pablo Etla in Oaxaca, a province of mostly Indigenouspeoples in southern Mexico…

The scene was just as I remembered from many decades ago, when my grade5 teacher asked us to name one of the seven wonders of the world, and Istuck up my hand and blurted out the Scarboro bluffs. My wife Loriand good friend Harriet joined me for a trip down memory lane on CanadaDay when we went for a picnic in my old haunts…

It’s 8.30pm, and I have just returned from lunch…

The companies making a killing from the food crisis…