Farmers and Forests
June 12, 2008
With grain prices rising as steeply as oil prices, farmers around the world are hoping to cash in while commodities are selling high. One of the world’s breadbasket countries, Brazil, is also
Category: Agriculture
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Patents and Plants
May 23, 2008
The current global food crisis — created by the confluence of climate change, high oil prices, and more people able to afford more food — has both corporations and academia scrambling to
The Return of Family Farms?
May 19, 2008
Food security continues to make headlines around the globe. In the past several weeks, I have written several posts on the subject of food and a growing crisis over rising prices. The
Globalization, Food, and Resilience
May 6, 2008
Anthony Faiola, writing for the Washington Post, discusses why globalization hasn’t fulfilled the hope that it would end world food shortages and the devastation such shortages bring [“Where Every Meal Is a
Cultivating the Right Biofuel
May 2, 2008
The news has been filled lately with reports of food shortages and rising prices. There have been reports of food hording, even in the United States. In response, places like Costco and
Rising Food Prices take the World’s Stage
April 18, 2008
The nasty word “inflation” is starting to be heard in more press reports than it has in a long, long time. Oil was the original culprit that nudged inflation onto to the
The Seeds of Resilience
March 13, 2008
Back in June 2006, I wrote a post that discussed, in part, the fact that work had begun on a huge vault on the Norwegian island of Svalbard to house seeds from
Food as Medicine
February 14, 2008
Finding easy and inexpensive ways to provide prophylactic medications to people (especially children) in developing countries remains a goal for those involved with global health issues. Preventing diseases is much cheaper than
Search for Oil Alternatives Pushes Food Prices Higher
January 28, 2008
In several posts I’ve written about bio-diesel, I’ve mentioned the fact that diverting food crops into sources of bio-diesel has been causing food prices to rise. Keith Bradsher, writing in the New
Fertilizing to End Famine
January 9, 2008
One of the continuing debates in the environmental world is about the use of fertilizer. Some environmentalists lament that fertilizers are actually killing the land they are supposed to enrich and that
