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This new vertical farm is trying to make vegetables taste so good, you won't want to eat anything else. 
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Farmers in New Mexico will be allowed to grow hemp beginning next year, setting the stage for a new industr
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The country's largest agricultural water district, Westlands, maintains that California has plenty of water. It's just mismanaged.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is the consequence of directed efforts to fight environmental regulations via methods demonizing those seeking to make sure we have a healthy, long-term life-support system that perpetuates the remnants of the ecosystems that have thrived in California for many thousands of years.
Very sad state of affairs. The fact people seek to stoke political wars rather than seeking true solutions that are sustainable and just is pathetic.
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Just four commodities—beef, soy, palm oil, and wood products—drive the majority of global deforestation. And consumers can help stop it.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
As I was getting a ride home from the car repair shop today, the shuttle had an interesting radio show on. It was a discussion with a person of a particular political persuasion saying how "doom and gloom" and "naysayers" get too much press and are a part of the problem with the world these days. While we can of course swerve too far down the "world is ending" path, simply saying that key drivers of degradation are not happening is a childish or cynical ploy. But one example of the challenges we face is this brief overview of drivers of forest conversion to human-dominated landscapes. While I generally do not like these "info graphics," in cases such as the dork on the radio, these might be the right level of tone and complexity.
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Tags: food, economic, food production, agribusiness, agriculture, unit 5 agriculture,
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Reporters in 14 newsrooms across the Midwest teamed up with InsideClimate News to explore local solutions to climate change.
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ST. HELENA, Calif. — The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) nonprofit trade association announced today it has reached an important sustainability milestone: 50 percent of its eligible members (those who own a …
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The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.
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This well-researched article totally ignores issues of nutrition, soil health, water supply, food justice, etc. This is an interesting read to be sure, but at times most closely tracks with big Pharma and the Monsanto-esque approach to food production that is firmly in the driver seat of our food policy these days. Biotech approaches are truly impressive and are clearly part of the mix now and in the future. But there are many more layers of the onion here than "simple" technofixes and whiz-bang things that appear to "solve" the hard choices and difficult decisions that are necessitated by a world of perhaps 9 billion very hungry humans.
Thanks to Rachel Langley for flagging this piece.
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It’s a curious vision of sustainable agriculture, though, that sees overcoming resistance to agrochemicals as progress. Should we really be enabling farmers to spray more glyphosate into their fields when the World Health Organization has found the chemical to be a “probable” carcinogen and when it’s been associated with collapsing populations of monarch butterflies? And using gene drives to snuff out wild organisms because they carry diseases or nibble on crops could have serious unintended consequences, such as destabilizing food webs and facilitating invasions by other species.
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It’s a curious vision of sustainable agriculture, though, that sees overcoming resistance to agrochemicals as progress. Should we really be enabling farmers to spray more glyphosate into their fields when the World Health Organization has found the chemical to be a “probable” carcinogen and when it’s been associated with collapsing populations of monarch butterflies? And using gene drives to snuff out wild organisms because they carry diseases or nibble on crops could have serious unintended consequences, such as destabilizing food webs and facilitating invasions by other species.
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