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Food
Posts in this category are about Food. People are often dependent on distant, unhealthy food sources; this reduces ties to the local landscape, further eroding the stability of the food system. A main priority is protecting the ability of people to access food and other resources from nearby wildlands, provided that care is taken to maintain the health of these ecosystems. Enhancing regional food systems and drawing on the entire landscape will reconnect people with place and provide a nutritious diet.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
Organic Manifesto, by Rodale Chairman & CEO Maria Rodale, Released Today
Rodale Inc. today announced the release of Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe by Rodale Chairman & CEO Maria Rodale. Organic Manifesto cuts through the confusion and misinformation to ...
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(0)Frogs, foam and fuel: Solar energy converted to sugars
In natural photosynthesis, plants take in solar energy and carbon dioxide and then convert it to oxygen and sugars. The oxygen is released to the air and the sugars are dispersed throughout the plant -- like that sweet corn we look for in the summer. Unfortunately, the allocation of light energy into products we use is not as efficient as we would like. Now engineering researchers are doing something about that.
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Land Grab in Africa
In what The Guardian calls "the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era," enormous swaths of African land is being sold to foreign countries seeking agricultural lands to feed their growing populations.
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