Permaculture Research Digest

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Showing posts with label industrial agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industrial agriculture. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 August 2016

Call for sustainable ag. research funding

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Scientists call for increased federal investment in sustainable agriculture Based on a new analysis of federal funding from the US Dep...
Thursday, 16 June 2016

Africa needs climate-proof agriculture (report)

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SET FOR SUCCESS: CLIMATE PROOFING THE MALABO DECLARATION (2016) Montpelier Panel, June 2016 By the year 2050 the impacts of clima...
Wednesday, 15 June 2016

More support for diverse agroecological systems (report)

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From uniformity to diversity:A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture   to diversified agroecological systems    A report from the I...
Monday, 16 May 2016

Agricultural investment data worldwide (report)

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Agricultural Investment Data - Landscape Analysis: Executive summary Investments in agriculture are critical to reducing poverty and im...
Monday, 12 May 2014

Uk agriculture facts website (online)

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UK Agriculture  This web site about agriculture and farming was established in 1999 in an attempt to help widen understanding about the...
Wednesday, 16 April 2014

UN Special Rapporteur advocates agroecology (report)

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter   Final report: The transformative potential of the right...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

The Campaign for Real Farming (online)

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Campaign for real farming website 'The Agrarian Renaissance needs new kinds of farms – polycultural, low-input, skills intensive; and...

Scaling up agroecolgy (report)

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Scaling-up agroecological approaches: what, why and how?  The objectives of this paper are: •To contribute to ongoing debates on agroe...

Introduction to soil health principles (video)

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'The Soil is naked, hungry and running a fever!' Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the National Resource Conservation...

Trees help farmers manage drought (report)

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Managing the drought: A review of the evidence of the benefits of native trees species for shelter on the water regime of pasture and ara...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

Environmental impact of conventional vs. organic (#journal)

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Environmental Impact of Different Agricultural Management Practices: Conventional vs. Organic Agriculture This paper carries out a comp...

Organic yields average 80% of conventional (#journal)

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The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture A key issue in the debate on the contribution of organic agriculture t...
Friday, 17 January 2014

Food production beyond scarcity thinking (#journal)

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Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame...

Global land grabbing special issue (#journal)

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Special Issue: JPS Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: on methods Seven articles which offer a wide range of perspectives on global la...

The global food system analysed (book)

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Food Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of the world’s population gains a livelih...