Things To Read

by Natasha Chart · 2009-01-10 06:11:00 UTC
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Sheep grazing, Thuringia, Germany; René EhrhardtFor your intellectual nutrition ...

  • This holistic management proposal for the world's rangelands suggests that managed grazing and herd culling could restore plant communities to arid and desertifying regions, and significantly increase the amount of both carbon and water held in the soil.

  • The Knox Co. Farm Bureau says ethanol wasn't responsible for food price increases, it was the high fuel costs. I've heard conflicting stories about this, and I'm inclined to believe that raw grain prices had more effect in developing nations than the US, but the editorial makes a good point about how little of our food dollars make it to farmers - most of the cost of our food goes to the processors and distributors.

  • Soil compaction can affect crop yields for years, a new, long-term study reveals, but there are many techniques growers can use to avoid it.

  • An organic farm is blooming in a Kenyan slum under the care of its formerly unemployed farmers. The produce is apparently popular in a city that's been gripped by both civil unrest and food shortages.

  • The Ethicurean highlights some top food news stories.

  • Check out the Pesticide Action Network's latest documentation of the atrocities, including more information on the study linking genetically modified corn with infertility.

  • And this isn't about food, as such, but it's always a good time to complain about the corporate greedheads who steal from you because they can through their creative billing scams. The agribusiness giants aren't unique in being cruel and fiendish tormentors of humankind, after all. They're just going with the flow and enjoying the government complicity.

How's your Saturday going?

(Photo credit: René Ehrhardt on Flickr.)

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