agriculture

Vandana Shiva says what needs to be said - always so eloquent and right on.

Quoted: Four hundred billion dollars in subsidies combined with the forced removal of import restriction is a ready-made recipe for farmer suicide.

Quoted: academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays.

Quoted: Many a professor dreams of revolution. But Norman T. Uphoff, working in a leafy corner of the Cornell University campus, is leading an inconspicuous one centered on solving the global food crisis. The secret, he says, is a new way of growing rice.

Originally developed by a French Jesuit priest based in Madagascar.

Quoted: India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the U.S., but it must buy some foods on international markets, exacerbating a global food crisis.

I found this totally helpful for Chicago Community Supported Agriculture programs. There's a freaking awesome meat CSA whose web address isn't listed (it's http://www.cedarvalleysustainable.com/id11.html ).

Great photos and commentary on architecture, infrastructure, and even agriculture in Mumbai's Dharavi settlement.

Interesting article on meat eating.

Quoted: Got vegetables? The days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may be on the way out.

Boom, it's another "pollanation event" ... this hilarious joke will be understood upon reading the article.

Quoted: What sustainability is really about.

Quoted: Malawi’s agricultural turnaround has implications for fighting hunger across Africa.