farming

BBC – BBC World Service Programmes – Discovery, Feeding The World, Episode 2

31 March 2010

BBC – BBC World Service Programmes – Discovery, Feeding The World, Episode 2: “A drought resistant maize is needed urgently. Sue Broom travels to Kenya and Mozambique to investigate a new research project that is combining conventional crop breeding with genetically modified crops.”

From what I have been reading and listening to about permaculture things need [...]

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Dairy Farming in Iceland

12 March 2010

Shellfish could supplant tree-ring climate data : Nature News: “For example, in early Norse Iceland — part of the 2,000-year era spanned by the study — farmers were dependent on dairy farming and agriculture. ‘For a dairy culture, summer is by far the most important,’ he says. ‘A one-degree decrease in summer temperatures in Iceland [...]

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The Volokh Conspiracy – How Much Did Crop Diversity Decline in the 20th Century?

1 September 2009

The Volokh Conspiracy – How Much Did Crop Diversity Decline in the 20th Century?: “According to the conventional wisdom, the twentieth century was a disaster of monumental proportions for vegetable crop diversity. The conventional wisdom is wrong.”
That’s good, I am worried enough about of food supply.

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