food security

In response to food security and cost inflation issues, the mayor of Mexico City launches a 'backyard agriculture' program for the city. Small scale kitchen gardening assumes a critical role in food supply.

The United Nations proclaimed May 22nd as the International Day for Biodiversity to increase awareness and understanding of biodiversity issues. This years’ theme focuses on agriculture. Due to agricultural expansion, population growth, and misuse of agricultural technologies, our Earth’s biodiversity and natural resources are increasingly suffering dramatic consequences.

A peer-reviewed study of pesticide levels in Mercer Island children, found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety of conventional foods from area groceries contained biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War II.

When the same children ate organic fruits, vegetables and juices, signs of pesticides were not found.

Here's a good rebuttal for anyone still running into the C02 - They Call It Pollution, We Call It Life crowd.

A favorite argument of global warming deniers is that the carbon dioxide causing global warming is harmless because its "just plant food". It turns out that like any other "food", too much will only cause harm.

From Plenty Magazine: Digging Deeper - One Milwaukee group promotes sustainability by encouraging folks to get their hands dirty.

Rethinking the monoculture ideas popular from the plantation era to the present, some South Eastern North Carolina counties are devising a plan to create a regional food system based on the needs of consumer counties and the assets of producer counties.