90% of global farm subsidies damage people and planet, says UN Almost half a trillion dollars of support a year harms people’s health, the climate and drives inequality The biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, such as beef and milk, received the biggest subsidies. Photograph: Greg Kahn/The Guardian Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Tue 14 Sep […]
THE UNEXPECTED BENEFITS OF CARBON FARMING
Regenerative organic agriculture goes beyond sustainable to improve soil health, animal welfare, and social fairness in farm systems. Importantly, regenerative practices also have huge potential to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store that carbon in the soil where it belongs. In this Tedx talk, regenerative organic farmer Gillian Flies explains the carbon cycle, and […]
Wheat in heat: the ‘crazy idea’ that could combat food insecurity
Durum wheat varieties can withstand 40C heat along the Senegal River basin, and could produce 600,000 tonnes of food. In the northern Senegalese village of Ndiayene Pendao, close to the border with Mauritania, Fatouma Sow is pulling weeds. Her team of female farmers tread carefully among the tall, ripening plants as they prepare to harvest the […]
Eat some crickets and help the world
You’re going to be eating crickets, so just get over it. The UN expects the global population to grow by 2 billion people in the next 30 years, reaching 9.8 billion by 2050 — likely doubling the world’s demand for meat. That’s where munching a bunch of beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, mealworms and other bugs comes in. Insects grow […]
The Uninhabitable Earth
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of […]
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