The Secrets Behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership
You may or may not have heard that negotiations are currently underway in Ottawa, Canada to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a free-trade agreement between 12...
Solar Power in India! Who Will Benefit?
India’s National Solar Mission was launched in 2010 with the goal of adding 20,000 Mega-Watts of grid connected solar power by 2022. The National Solar Mission supports small and...
Getting the Most Out of the Sun: Agrovoltaic farming, Agroforestry, and the Third World
A group of researchers in Montpelier, France have developed a new system of farming called agrovoltaic agriculture. This system makes it possible to use the sunlight shining onto fields...
Assessing 50 Years of Agrarian Transition in India
Excerpts from the Inaugural Address of Second Chance Foundation Director Dr. Joan Mencher to the International Seminar on Agrarian Transition in India, January 28th 2014. “When I first started...
Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture: structural adjustment by another name
The World Bank has once again come under close scrutiny due to a report and campaign launched by the Oakland Institute. The Campaign is called Our Land; Our Business...
China and the Global Meat Complex
Recently, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy released a set of reports titled Global Meat Complex: The China Series. The series consists of four reports, each describing a...
“GMOs and the Pesticide Treadmill”
In a recent webinar hosted by , Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, a senior scientist and director of the Grassroots Science Program at Pesticide Action Network, told us all about the ecological...
Film “Cesar’s Last Fast” spotlights the struggle to protect US farm workers
In a segment on today’s edition of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman spoke with Richard Ray Perez, the co-director of a new film about Cesar Chavez’s last political fast. Cesar...
SRI/SCI featured on the Food Tank blog!
Today, the folks over at Food Tank posted a short piece about the System of Crop Intensification (SRI/SCI), a set of agricultural principles and practices used by small farmers...
The Flawed Science Behind GM Crops
The debate over the safety of foods made from Genetically Modified (GM) crops has been raging bitterly since GM crops were first introduced in the early 1990s. As expected,...