Posts Tagged ‘ecological farming’
Why Agroecology Needs Social Movements
Women in Nigeria grow and sell orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. Image by Sonii David/Community Eye Health via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) The 2nd East African Agroecology Conference was a three-day event, from March 25-28, and according to the organizers’ report, over 700 people participated. Alongside a range of side events, there were exhibitions showcasing everything from…
Read MoreRegenerative Agriculture: our best shot at cooling the planet?
It’s getting hot out there. For a stretch of 16 months running through August 2016, new global temperature records were set every month.[1] Ice cover in the Arctic sea hit a new low this past summer, at 525,000 square miles less than normal.[2] And apparently we’re not doing much to stop it: according to Professor…
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