Source: boston.com Published: July 29, 2016 Making food more sustainable and helping farmers turn a profit are two of Indigo’s main goals. –Reuters Indigo is using microbes to make super healthy, hardy crops. By Justine Hofherr, Staff Writer Tyler McClendon,...
Source: wired.com Published: March 21, 2016 Getty Images Sarah Zhang Organics are in. Chemicals are out. With today’s food politics, the chemical fertilizers and pesticides that fantastically increased agricultural yields in the 20th century are looking…not so...
Source: jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com Published: November 9, 2016 In this post Nahuel Policelli discusses a recent paper by Timothy M. Bowles and colleagues ‘Ecological intensification and arbuscular mycorrhizas: a meta-analysis of tillage and cover crop effects‘...
Source: civileats.com Published: February 2, 2016 California lawmakers move toward paying farmers to adopt climate-smart practices. BY ARIANA REGUZZONI | Agroecology, Climate While El Niño rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken California, Governor Jerry...
Source: blogs.usda.gov Published: February 21, 2017 Posted by Jocelyn Benjamin, USDA-NRCS and Kate MacFarland, USDA National Agroforestry Center, on February 21, 2017 Much of the beauty in American agricultural landscapes is complemented by the trees in those...
Source: climatechangeconnection.org Published: April 17, 2017 Because some degree of climate change is now inevitable, sustainable agricultural practices are critical to climate change adaptation. A focus needs to be on the implementation of farming practices that...
Source: resilience.org Published: September 23, 2016 Photo credit: CC BY 2.5, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8433090 By Erika Styger, originally published by Patterns of Commoning When the rainy season came early to the highlands of Madagascar in 1983, the...
Source: sri.ciifad.cornell.edu Published: March 22, 2017 SRI-Rice ONLINE and its associated social networking sites are maintained by the SRI International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice) at Cornell University. SRI-Rice ONLINE contains the most comprehensive...
Source: fao.org Published: March 22, 2017 (Text comes from a pdf article) Mrs Tea Sarim is one of the participating farmers in a European Union funded multi-country (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and Thailand) project called “Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: March 31, 2017 By Cyrus Sutton Island Earth is the story of a young indigenous scientist’s journey through both sides of the GMO battle in Hawaii. Groomed to work for Monsanto, Cliff Kapono had a lot to consider over the past few...
