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Factory farming is passing far bigger costs – and risks – on to all of us.
Needless to say, many of us in the region feel as though we are being used as lab rats in an experiment that could devastate African farming families’ capacity to feed themselves and their communities.
Having been sold on gene drives as a possible magic bullet, farming organizations such as the California Cherry Board and the US Citrus Research Board are collaborating with Agragene Inc., the world’s first agricultural gene-drive company.
Some gene-drive proponents have argued that GDOs could be compatible with agro-ecological approaches such as organic farming.
The benefits of information and communications technologies can be found in every area of human activity: better farming using GPS and micro-dosing of fertilizers; precision manufacturing; buildings that know how to economize on energy use; and, of course, the transformative, distance-erasing power of the Internet.
Rural policy in the EU is too often reduced to income guarantees for the farming community.
Competition must be encouraged, as more rural entrepreneurship will strengthen the farming community, with fewer farmers but better farms.
They could make a real contribution to cleaner, more productive, and efficient farming and land use, while addressing social needs.
New digital technologies have been playing an important role in transforming large-scale farming in Latin America and elsewhere.
While some scientists believe that the Anthropocene actually began when humans started farming and domesticating animals, others (including me) consider it to be a more recent development.
In return, these relationships have facilitated the exchange of information and goods, diversified diets, strengthened farming techniques, and guarded against hunger.
With a formal claim to the land they are farming, women are also more likely to invest in the fertility of the soil, contributing to more productive and sustainable land-use patterns.
In an essay he wrote for In Defense of Animals , a book I edited that appeared in 2006, he wrote, “No realistic level of guerilla attacks of the kind carried out by the Animal Liberation Front could have hurt the battery farming industry as much as the new Austrian law does.”
According to a study – cited in the World Bank report – by MIT’s Tavneet Suri and Georgetown University’s William Jack, mobile accounts have enabled 185,000 Kenyan women to leave farming and start more remunerative small businesses and retail activities.
He previously served not only as minister of economics and finance, but also of agriculture – a critically important qualification, given that the vast majority of the developing countries’ poor depend on farming.
In the short term, Palestine needs more water to provide employment and income from farming; in the longer term, educational, cultural, and political changes are needed in order to develop a capacity to adapt.
For example, fish farming is one of the main drivers of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia.
Uganda’s Smart ProtectionismKAMPALA – On a balmy afternoon, I met Dr. Gilbert Bukenya at his home on the shores of Lake Victoria, where we talked about the future of farming in Uganda.
“By farming smarter,” he said, “Ugandans not only can grow more, they can earn more money.”
Subsistence farming of traditional food grains, fruits, and vegetables is giving way to cash crops and monocultures dependent on high-priced inputs that small farmers cannot afford and water that they can’t provide.
First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their votes – something that few, if any, urban consumers do.
On top of this, farming is presented as analogous to the military.
Farming, fishing, and forestry now account for less that 2% of the total economy and less than 4% of the workforce.
“Last resort” antibiotics should never be used as growth promoters in livestock farming, but achieving this will require significant changes to current practices.
Beyond endangering lives, more frequent and stronger storms could cost many billions of dollars, owing to infrastructure damage and lost revenues from farming, fisheries, and tourism.
Innovations in biotechnology and farming methods are needed to deal with disease, pests, and drought.
Likewise, food-related research and development should focus on facilitating the production of nutrient-rich foods and the diversification of farming systems.
As consumers, we have the power – and the moral obligation – to refuse to support farming methods that are cruel to animals and bad for us.
When sea levels rise, those island-state inhabitants, living just a meter or two above sea level, will be the first to be driven off their land, followed by tens of millions of people farming small plots in fertile delta regions in Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, and Egypt.
Indeed, it seems that, like farming or democracy, state capitalism has been independently invented many times in world history.
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