by Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Falls Church, Virginia (December 27, 2012) — The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) has agreed to administer a litigation fund to be used to help finance the Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s lawsuit against the United States National Park Service. Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) is a family-owned, environmentally sustainable oyster farm on the shores […]
The strength to feed the world
Growing more food faster requires sacrificing our future and produces only an illusion of abundance.
By Amanda Kimble-Evans
Rodale Institute
Organic farmers and gardeners already witness every year the bountiful harvests possible when growing food in concert with nature. And anyone who supports their local organic growers at farmers’ markets can see […]
by Tom Philpott
Grist
Quote: “The problem is, the conventional wisdom is wrong — or, at the very least, much more contested than its champions let on. The Economist insisted that international development agencies had embraced Big Ag as the solution to the globe’s food problem, but that simply isn’t true.”
Read the Full Article Here: http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-10-debunking-myth-that-only-industrial-agriculture-can-feed-world
by Livable Future
I’ve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways.
One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system was reported to have […]
by Nick Saltmarsh
Foresight, the Government’s futures thinktank, today published the final report of its Global Food and Farming Futures project to explore the increasing pressures on the global food system between now and 2050.
The report argues for fundamental change to the global food system and beyond, highlighting the decisions that policy makers need to take today, and in […]
by Nidhi Prakash
The key to alleviating world hunger, poverty and combating climate change may lie in fresh, small-scale approaches to agriculture, according to a report from the Worldwatch Institute.
The US-based institute’s annual State of the World report, published yesterday, calls for a move away from industrial agriculture and discusses small-scale initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa that work towards […]
