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  • China : Scientists sound alarm as black soil erodes in NE
    29 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Scientists sound alarm as black soil erodes in NE
    Xinhua
    2007-08-27 16:48
    BEIJING - Chinese scientists are warning that the country’s northeast breadbasket regions are in danger of losing their fertility because of soil erosion and degeneration.
    "The northeast areas are the granary of the country. Soil erosion and degeneration will jeopardize the nation’s grain security," said Zhang Xudong, a soil expert with the Shenyang-based Institute of Applied Ecology under the Chinese (…)

  • Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country
    22 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ...while there is growing recognition that global warming is a problem, little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. In this new book, William Cline, a joint senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, provides the first ever estimates of the impact on agriculture by country, with a particular focus on social and economic implications in China, India, Brazil, and the poor countries of the (…)

  • Ready, aim, fire and rain
    16 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Pallavi Aiyar
    BEIJING - After weeks of watching the mercury soar, hardening the already cracked earth of their wilting orchards and farms, a group of farmers on the outskirts of Beijing gather in the Fragrant Hills that line the western fringe of China’s capital city. Unlike their ancestors, they do not assemble to perform a rain dance or gather in a temple to pray to the Lord Buddha to bring the rain.
    Instead, they grab rocket launchers and a 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun and begin (…)

  • ENVIRONMENT: Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground by Lester R. Brown
    8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ENVIRONMENT: Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground Analysis by Lester R. Brown*
    WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) - In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilisations had coped with soil erosion.
    He found that some had managed their land well, maintaining its fertility over long stretches of history, (…)

  • "The Nation That Destroys the Soil, Destroys Itself" Ethanolics Anonymous By DENNY HALDEMAN
    2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The Nation That Destroys the Soil, Destroys Itself" Ethanolics Anonymous
    By DENNY HALDEMAN
    http://www.counterpunch.org/haldeman06262007.html
    Once again, we find our political leadership united around a very bad idea, ethanol and other biofuels to help gain "energy independence," to "help farmers" and most importantly, to help citizens avoid the harsh reality of peak oil converging with unsustainable lifestyles. It is understandable that the politicians must pander to the corn growing (…)

  • The Great Biofuel Hoax By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Indypendent Posted on June 25, 2007, Printed on June
    26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Great Biofuel Hoax By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Indypendent Posted on June 25, 2007, Printed on June 26, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/54218/
    For an alternative viewpoint on corn-based ethanol, read "David Morris’s Give Ethanol a Chance: The Case for Corn-Based Fuel."
    Biofuels invoke an image of renewable abundance that allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the United Nations and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present fuel from corn, sugarcane, soy and (…)

  • CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food (IPS)
    15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:09 GMT
    CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food
    Patricia Grogg
    HAVANA, Mar 6 (IPS) - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning to move forward together on biofuels production, but they will rely on producing alcohol from sugarcane, in order to spare food crops. Official Cuban sources described the cooperative alcohol programme between the two countries as part of their "joint efforts" to protect the (…)

  • Mysterious killer wipes out nation’s honeybees
    3 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mysterious killer wipes out nation’s honeybees
    Loss of pollination could have devastating impact on U.S. food
    May 3, 2007
    BY SETH BORENSTEIN
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    BELTSVILLE, Md. — Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate.
    Honeybees don’t just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops Americans have.
    Among them: apples, (…)

  • POLITICIANS MAKING FOOLS OF US ALL: THE CASE OF ETHANOL AS MOTOR FUEL
    25 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 24, 2007
    POLITICIANS MAKING FOOLS OF US ALL The Case of Ethanol as Motor Fuel
    John Chuckman
    Ethanol has always been a poor choice as a fuel, but the scientific and economic considerations behind that statement don’t stop politicians from claiming otherwise.
    American use of ethanol blended into gasoline actually represents a hidden subsidy to corn farmers, a subsidy on top of other subsidies, because American corn production itself has long been subsidized. The American program, (…)

  • Official: H5N1 may be in human food chain
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    James Sturcke and agencies Friday February 9, 2007 Guardian Unlimited
    The Food Standards Agency confirmed today that it was investigating the possibility that turkey meat contaminated by bird flu at a Bernard Matthews poultry farm has entered the human food chain.
    The government’s chief scientist, Sir David King, said the agency would be considering ordering supermarkets to remove packaged turkey from shelves after it emerged that Bernard Matthews had been transporting turkey meat from (…)