Food Shortages
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Will this Type of Agriculture Feed Your Grandchildren?
You know that a system of agriculture is truly sustainable when the harvest occurs—increasingly abundantly—as a by-product of ecosystem regeneration.…
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Understanding Urban Agriculture – Part 3, Calculating the Food Production Potential of a City
It has been well said that we do not see things as they are, but as we are ourselves. Every…
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Understanding Urban Agriculture – Part 2, Productivity, Potential and Possibilities
This is part two of a series of articles Angelo is writing, for part one please visit: https://www.permaculturenews.org/2016/10/05/understanding-urban-agriculture-part-1-present-state-historical-context/ People who…
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Climate Change: A Threat to Food Security and National Stability
Climate change is all over the planet. We are witnessing what the world has never witnessed. Changes in the climatic…
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Cities – Food Free Zones? The Creation of the Urban Food Desert
Have you ever wondered why our modern cities are intentionally designed to be food-free? All living things normally live in…
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Syrian War Compels To Open The Doomsday Seed Vault For First Withdrawal
Researchers from ICARDA, have requested for the backup seeds deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, to restart…
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Report: Will GM Crops Feed the World?
by Canadian Biotechnology Action Network The Claim: We need GM crops to feed the world Full Report (550kb PDF) Supporters…
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World Bank and UN Carbon Offset Scheme ‘Complicit’ in Genocidal Land Grabs – NGOs
Editor’s Note: On Monday The Independent published an article titled "Britain has only 100 harvests left in its farm soil…
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Beware the Corporate Takeover of Seed Under Many Guises
New and existing legislations and treaties are increasingly restricting people’s food rights and eroding agricultural biodiversity in favour of a…
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Life in a ‘Degrowth’ Economy, and Why You Might Actually Enjoy It
by Samuel Alexander, originally published on The Conversation Time to get off the economic growth train? Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock What does…
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Expanding Farmlands with Reduced Cropping
According to a new research findings, over the next 100 years due to climate change, land suitable for agriculture is…
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UN: Only Small Farmers and Agroecology Can Feed the World
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using ‘agroecological’ methods, according to the UN’s…
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