Read more about the article Making biodiverse agriculture part of a food-secure future
Varieties of indigenous potatoes growing in a single farm in Khadarshnong area, Meghalaya. photo NESFAS/ Annelier Bernhart

Making biodiverse agriculture part of a food-secure future

Is biodiverse agriculture an anachronism? Or is it a vital part of a food-secure future? Given the need to feed an estimated 2.4 billion more people by the year 2050,…

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Slow Food for Africa

10,000 Food Gardens to Cultivate the Future We made our dream of creating a thousand food gardens in Africa a reality. But the Slow Food network isn’t stopping there. Now…

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Read more about the article Policies and pollinators: How the feds deepen the precipitous decline of monarchs
Monarch butterfly by Vera Kratochvil http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=7126&picture=monarch-butterfly

Policies and pollinators: How the feds deepen the precipitous decline of monarchs

Krista Langlois The numbers are in from Mexico, and they ain’t pretty. Every fall, monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles from the Great Plains to their winter grounds in central…

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International Year of Family Farming 2014

The 2014 International Year of Family Farming (2014 IYFF) is a worldwide celebration, declared by the United Nations General Assembly, that aims to stimulate active policies for sustainable development of…

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