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1 Nov 2011 3 minute read

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Kibera's vertical farms

Slum dwellers are using urban agriculture as a buffer to market shocks, report Danielle Nierenberg and...

1 Nov 2011 2 minute read

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Meet the food speculators

Who is making a profit from food?

Why the G20 must wake up to food speculation

14 Oct 2011 3 minute read

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Why the G20 must wake up to food speculation

As protestors gear up to occupy financial centres across the globe, Deborah Doane calls on world leaders to...

NI Japan Lecture Meeting 2 Lets talk about seeds and exchange traditional varieties

13 Jul 2011 1 minute read

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NI Japan Lecture Meeting 2 Lets talk about seeds and exchange traditional varieties

NI Japan -Exploring Sustainable Society and Lifestyle- Lecture Meeting Series

ＮＩジャパン＜持続可能な社会と暮らし方を探る講演会＞その2

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1 Jul 2011 12 minute read

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Where now for biofuels?

Can fuel crops ever be sustainable? Danny Chivers gives us the lowdown.

1 Jul 2011 4 minute read

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Biofuels - the good, the bad and the ugly

From wood to algae, biofuels have been around for years. But they're not necessarily all they're cracked up to be. Danny...

1 Mar 2011 2 minute read

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Honeybees get a helping hand

‘Barefoot beekeepers’ adopt an alternative approach to safeguarding the threatened bee population.

14 Feb 2011 2 minute read

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A rosier Valentine's for Ugandan flower workers

Trade unions improve conditions for African flower workers

1 Sep 2010 8 minute read

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Seed savers

The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world....

1 Sep 2010 6 minute read

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Crops of truth

Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge...

1 Sep 2010 6 minute read

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Surviving climate change

In many African societies seed preservation was once an almost sacred duty. Isaiah Esipisu explains why it is becoming vital...

2 Dec 2009 2 minute read

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The eye sees, but the hand can't reach

Palestinian proverb reflects bitter truth for olive farmers

1 Dec 2009 13 minute read

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How Toronto Found Its Food Groove

Today’s food movement grew up alongside the anti-globalization movements of the past 20 years, so thinking and acting locally...

27 Oct 2009 1 minute read

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Where have all the bees gone?

ハチがいないと人類は滅亡！？

21 Sep 2009 4 minute read

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Time for an alternative to cheap food

The false economies of food production are damaging to the environment, animals and humans.

21 Sep 2009 5 minute read

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Norman Borlaug: another subjective obituary

Called the 'Father of the Green Revolution', Norman Borlaug died on 12 September. Paul H Johnson argues that the glowing...

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