Agriculture

Women who are doing it for themselves...Right now the Radio New Internationalist team are revisiting some of the powerful and passionate people weve been hearing from this year. And weve found that its the women whove really starred…

With the Christmas parties and New Year feasting that's featuring in many millions of homes this week, the Radio New Internationalist team wants to get it's teeth into some of the interviews that we've done during 2007 about the food we're finding on our dinner tables: Angus Calder - a company director in search of more efficient agriculture - takes us through the problems that threaten our food supplies…

This program hits the airwaves at the start of Ramadan - the most significant month of the Islamic year: a month in which fasting features…

Cotton pickinFresh from an assignment in India, New Internationalist co-editor Richard Swift joins the radio team to pick the issues from the worlds cotton fields…

Peace of the actionProtecting a human rights campaigner as he lays bare the connections between a mayor and notorious paramilitary death squads…

For a while now, when asked about the NI magazine topic I’ll betackling next, I’ve had to say: ‘permaculture.’ Invariably asked whatthat is, I’ve had to say: ‘I have no idea.’ Extreme hairdressing? Thelifestyle of Siberia?So how come I am starting to put together a magazine aboutpermaculture? Here I enter Donald Rumsfeld territory…

No land for Zimbabwe’s women …

Canada sows sterile seeds …

From monoculture in Montana to the spreading Gobi desert in China, how our assault on the earth has eroded its thin skin of soil.…

Could the science of systems theory help us devise intelligent, self-organizing and truly networked democracies? Roy Madron and John Jopling investigate.…