Update on Sustainable and Organic Agriculture in the US
Throughout March, farmers, ranchers, and advocates of sustainable agriculture flew to DC from around the country to discuss the benefits of sustainable agriculture with Senators and Representative of their...
Reports of Dangers of Industrial Meat Industry Should Concern India
In case you missed it, the World Health Organization recently released a controversial report concluding that consumption of processed and red meats leads is linked to increased rates of...
Agricultural Minister Singh’s Comments Reveal a History of Neglect of Small Farmers
Social media is abuzz over Indian Agricultural Minister Radha Mohan Singh’s recent comments concerning farmer’s suicides. In a written statement to Parliament, Singh cited a report by the National...
Dalits in Today’s India: 2015
All of the papers in the recently published collection of essays titled Life as a Dalit: Views from the Bottom on Caste and India (edited by Subhadra Mitra Channa...
Dr. Mencher on US-India trade disagreement: “India is Right”
In a letter to India Abroad published last week, Dr. Mencher argues that “India is Right”, even though the mainstream press appears overwhelmingly in support of the United States...
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...
“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...
Kroul Farms, Farming the Family Way
Between 2002 and 2007, the total number of farms in the United States increased by 4 percent, the first increase in the number of farms since 1935. A growing...
A farmer’s story
It’s often hard to visualize what a land grab looks like, especially when few of us have traveled to the places where they are taking place. This year, La...