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The Solution Is the Soil: How Organic Farming Can Feed the World and Save the Planet

2014-10-10 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecology: ne man, backed by many, marches on Washington to tell lawmakers and the world that 'there is hope right beneath our feet.` Just over a week ago, the executive director of the Rodale Institute, Mark 'Coach` Smallwood, set out from the group`s research farm in eastern Pennsylvania on a 160-mile journey to Washington, DC with a walking stick, a brimmed hat, and a simple but profound message: We can not only stop climate change. We can reverse it. When Smallwood makes his expected arrival in the...

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Barriers to Sustainable Farming Put Burden on Worlds Poor

2014-10-09 16:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The conflict between free trade and food rights came to the fore again at the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in September, when India did not back down from its stance that a permanent solution be found for food security issues before signing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). The TFA is designed to push free trade further, with heavy losses to Indias food security. The U.S. had challenged India at the WTOs Bali Ministerial in 2013, on the ground that the Food Security Act...

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Public Perception of UK Farming is Increasingly Positive

2014-10-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - More of the British public think positively about farmers and farming than last year according to a recent OnePoll survey commissioned by the National Farmers Union (NFU).

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FAO Urges Europe to Support Sustainable Farming

2014-10-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

EU - Speaking at an informal meeting of European Union agriculture ministers in Milan this week, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said European governments must help combat hunger and malnutrition on a global level, as failure to do so will only boost migration flows and stoke conflicts.

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Family farming to be central theme at 2014 edition of Slow Foods Salone del Gusto

2014-09-24 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Family farming in developing and developed countries and the role it plays for food security will be the central topic of Slow Foods Salone del Gusto, which focuses on sustainable agriculture and food biodiversity and will take place in Italy in October. The International Salone del Gusto-Terra Madre is an event organised by the Slow Food movement, which encourages consumers to support local and sustainable food productions. The event which has the support of the UNs Food and Agricultural...

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