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The Future of Agriculture
It’s pretty clear what the world needs in terms of future agriculture and future food production. Whether we’ll actually get there is quite a different question, because right now we’re on exactly the wrong track. ...
Moratorium On Important Agriculture Lands,Hilo Waste Incinerator ...
It deeply perplexes me why the Hawaii Legislature is trying to pass legislation that would place a moritorium on developing important agriculture lands. Especially since the moratorium would only cover lands classified with A or B soils ...
Urban agriculture in New York and in Italy
The New Yorker features urban agriculture in New York Local. The Italian radio channel Rai Radio Tre discusses urban agriculture in Italy and elsewhere here (in Italian).
Mimos, Oracle team up on sensor grid for agriculture industry
Mimos Bhd and Oracle Corporation Malaysia are collaborating to develop and deploy a sensor grid pilot project for the agriculture industry under KnowledgeGRID Malaysia, a Mimos initiative. The sensor-based grid technology is currently ...
AGRICULTURE: House, Senate leadership step in to broker farm bill deal
House and Senate leaders are stepping into the ongoing debate on farm bill funding, with the hopes of breaking the stalemate on the pricetag for the bill as early as…
Reaching the poorest of the poor in Nigerian Agriculture
Today I had a heated Net-Map session with a group of Nigerian visitors to IFPRI, who are all involved in the Fadama II project (funded by World Bank), that aims at improving the lives of the poorest of the poor in Nigeria, ...
First agriculture breakfast for community ag leaders is March 12
The Coles County Farm Bureau, U of I Extension in Coles County, and Soil and Water Conservation Department have teamed up to bring agriculture leaders together to so they can mingle and discuss their current issues, events, ...
Cistern Care
This is a good time to clean your cistern, say DEH officials.
What is Biodynamic agriculture and who is Rudolf Steiner?
At the request of these farmers, Steiner delivered a series of 8 lectures on agriculture in Silesia, Germany in 1924. The basis of the lectures spoke of composting, utilising 'on-farm' manures as fertilisers, extensive crop rotations ...
Regional agriculture and water conference aims to ‘maximize ...
CAIRO: The fifth session of the Agriculture and Land and Water Use Commission (ALAWUC) for the Near East got underway yesterday at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Cairo.A branch of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), ...