Coal not the development solution needed by India’s poor
The New York Times reported today that India plans to double its reliance on coal power over the next five years. The country already extracts 565 million tons of...
Climate Change: Looking for Solutions, Making Demands
Last weekend, almost 400,000 people marched in New York City to call on the leaders of the world’s nations to take action to mitigate global climate change. Demonstrators marched,...
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...
“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...
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,...
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...
Thinking About Crisis: Talking About Solutions
Since 2008, crisis has been constantly among us, and everywhere we go it is being proclaimed by all. Europe, the United States and others are facing continued economic crisis....
States Supporting Agroecology: UN Special Rapporteur Oliveir de Schutter’s report on the Right to Food
As Mark Hertsgaard’s Op-Ed in the New York Times Thursday, September 13th explained, the US House of Representatives is in legislative gridlock, failing to come to any agreement that...
Sustainable Agriculture
What we mean by sustainable agriculture is agriculture that is not dependent on inputs coming from a long distance, the use of inter-cropping, crop rotations and the mix of...