Deforestation
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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Drowning in Money
The hidden and remarkable story of why devastating floods keep happening. by George Monbiot We all know what’s gone wrong,…
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My Story, in Contribution to Our Story of Hope (Zimbabwe)
by Mugove Walter Nyika I grew up with my grandparents in a village 200 km south of the capital Harare,…
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India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
Editor’s Note: As is often the case with the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), crucial solutions are largely missing from the…
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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UNCCD Land for Life Award Winners for 2013 (India, Mexico, Africa): Practical, Doable, Magic
Educating small-holder farmers in India Every year the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents awards and supportive prize-money…
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Ecology From the Air (video)
What are our forests really made of? From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high-powered lasers to…
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China and the Soybean Challenge
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Some 3,000 years ago, farmers in eastern China domesticated the soybean. In 1765,…
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Thinking Like a Forest
Why do conservation groups help to keep our wildlife in a state of extreme depletion? by George Monbiot I returned…
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Chalback Reg-Op Lesotho
Chalback Reg-Op Lesotho is the story about a sustainable farming system suitable for Lesotho and other similar regions of southern…
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Apple Turnover
Apple offers 21st Century technology – with 19th Century ethics. Bangka Island (Source) Are you excited by the launch of…
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The Global Land Rush
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Between 2007 and mid-2008, world grain and soybean prices more than doubled. As…
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