Quoted: Across the countryside of this nation on the heel of the Arabian Peninsula, the pumps and drills roar. Wildcatters bore as much as 1,000 feet into the earth and draw out the valuable liquid. They pump it into tankers and haul it away to sell to the highest bidder.

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.

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.

Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill...

Quoted: If the eaters make themselves heard, we might end up with something that looks less like a farm bill and more like the food bill a poorly fed America so badly needs.

Duh.

Quoted: A withering new internal report has found that the World Bank has long neglected African agriculture, one of the most important sectors in addressing chronic poverty.

“Here’s your most important client, Africa, with its most important sector, agriculture, relevant to the most important goal — people feeding their families — and the bank has been caught with two decades of neglect,”

Quoted: an approach to designing human settlements, in particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies...Exemplary permaculture designs evolve over time, and can become extremely complex mosaics of conventional and inventive cultural systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.

Quoted: Archaeologists at the University of Colorado, excavating this summer at a buried Maya village in El Salvador, reported yesterday the discovery of remains of a field of cultivated manioc that grew 1,400 years ago. They said this was the earliest evidence for cultivation of the carbohydrate-rich tuber in the Americas.

wow, that's really cool! what an awesome discovery.