The Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will be conducting an in-person training to capacitate its country data […]
Industrial agriculture is devastating our land, water, and air, and is now threatening the sustainability of the biosphere. Its massive chemical and biological inputs cause widespread environmental havoc as well as human disease and death. Its monoculturing reduces the diversity of our plants and animals. Its habitat destruction endangers wildlife. Its factory farming practices cause untold animal suffering. Its centralized corporate ownership destroys farm communities around the world, leading to mass poverty and hunger. The industrial agriculture system is clearly unsustainable. It has truly become a fatal harvest.
The $250,000 World Food Prize, considered by many the Nobel Prize of food and agriculture, was awarded today to an Indian scientist credited with launching a "blue revolution" (a rapid increase in fish production) in the developing world. Modadugu Gupta has spent 30 years creating a cheap and ecologically sustainable system of small-scale fish-farming using abandoned ditches and seasonally flooded fields and water holes smaller than the average swimming pool.
One of the important recent concepts in agricultural development has been the concern for sustainability. This concern originated with the high tech, high input and high yielding systems of the developed world and its meaning and appropriateness to the developing world. The presentation represents some reflections on the application of sustainability to the developing countries of Asia. Sustainable agriculture is defined as agriculture that balances the need for essential agricultural commodities such as food, fibre, etc. with the necessity of protecting the physical environment and public health, the foundation of agriculture.
As Geneva is busy with talks, Hong Kong is preparing for a major resistance against unfair trade rules. The Chinese government has geared up to handle over 10,000 demonstrators from all over the world likely to converge on Hong Kong. It is in constant dialogue with the Hong Kong People’s Alliance (HKPA) on the WTO. It is identifying possible sites that can be used to stage public protests.
Over 60 participants consisting of members and staff of farmers’ organizations (FOs), agricultural cooperatives, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the […]
Land conflict issues in the Philippines, especially the problem of overlapping claims on land tenure, have greatly affected smallholder farmers, […]
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