No need to clear new land for solar power. Panels can coexist with agriculture, and even help it since many crops thrive in partial shade and/or benefit from water retention under the panels.
“Maize is grown by about 50% of farmers in Tanzania. Maize is also a sun loving plant. So the fact that we had an 11% yield increase in maize [under solar panel arrays] is a phenomenal result,” he said.
For those who might not know, following a week after the Russia-Ukraine wheat embargo, there are even bigger and ominous signs hinting at global food insecurity and the catastrophic agricultural crises coming our way.
India last week banned export on all non-basmati rice varieties.
I repeat: EXPORT BAN ON ALL non-basmati RICE varieties.
[Aside: export of basmati variety will continue, the demand for which is relatively small in India when compared to the nearly 15 major varieties of rice (it's home to at least a 1000 varieties) consumed by very large populations everyday(these are the ones which are now banned). Basmati is a "festive" and only occasionally consumed variety in India. It is largely exported to the richer nations, many of whom think it is the only variety of rice from India.]
Why is India banning rice now?
Answer: global warming.
What’s happening in India (and South Asia at large) should both terrify you and wake you up
Here’s more (facts? trivia? bothersome news? how the world actually works?).
Il a osé le dire: "Les smicards préfèrent des abonnements VOD à une alimentation plus saine", aurait déclaré Macron à un syndicaliste lors du rencontre à l'Elysée le 15 février. Une nouvelle insulte avant le Salon de l'agriculture qui illustre son mépris pour les précaires...
I'd like to get in touch with a current employee of the #Texas Department of #Agriculture, particularly if you are #trans or otherwise #LGBTQIA+. It's for a story, but you can be anonymous.
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United Farm Workers endorses Biden, says he's an 'authentic champion' for workers and their families
The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.
🔴 À eux seuls, quatre dirigeants de la FNSEA, dont deux Bretons, cumulent 50 mandats. De l'Anses au Cese en passant par les innombrables instances agricoles, ces cumulards défendent partout la ligne du syndicat productiviste. Avec succès !
Une enquête menée dans le cadre d'une collaboration européenne avec Lighthouse Reports.
17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide.
That’s long enough to wrap Earth 10x at the equator – and is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza COMBINED.
C'est pas facile de trouver les #paysannes#paysans, #agricultrices, #agriculteurs sur le fédiverse, du coup je propose d'essayer d'en tenir la liste ici (toot éditable sur demande)
Contrary to popular dogma, industrial agriculture cannot "feed the world." Below are seven key takeaways from a report comparing the industrial food chain to the smallholder peasant food web.
Peasants are the main or sole food providers to more than 70% of the world’s people, and peasants produce this food with often much less than 25% of the resources — including land, water, fossil fuels — used to get all of the world’s food to the table.
The industrial food chain uses at least 75% of the world’s agricultural resources and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but provides food to less than 30% of the world’s people.
For every $1 consumers pay to industrial food chain retailers, society pays another $2 for the industrial food chain’s health and environmental damages. The total bill for the industrial food chain's direct and indirect cost is 5 times governments’ annual military expenditure.
The industrial food chain lacks the agility to respond to climate change. Its research and development is not only distorted but also declining as it concentrates the global food market.
The peasant food web nurtures 9-100 times the biodiversity used by the industrial food chain, across plants, livestock, fish, and forests. Peasants have the knowledge, innovative energy and networks needed to respond to climate change; they have the operational scope and scale; and they are closest to the hungry and malnourished.
There is still much about our food systems that we don’t know we don’t know. Sometimes, the industrial food chain knows but isn’t telling. Other times, policymakers aren’t looking. Most often, we fail to consider the diverse knowledge systems in the peasant food web.
The bottom line: at least 3.9 billion people are either hungry or malnourished because the industrial food chain is too distorted, vastly too expensive, and — after 70 years of trying — just can’t scale up to feed the world.
Macron annule la participation des Soulèvements à son "grand débat" au Salon de l'agriculture... après des menaces de la FNSEA de boycotter l'évènement. "Difficile de se fâcher avec le premier syndicat agricole", le défend un proche. C'est qui le patron? Sur la politique agricole, pas Macron apparemment...
"It was in the countryside that both Mussolini and Hitler won their first mass following, and it was angry farmers who provided their first mass constituency.”
George Monbiot writes on the far right’s new agrarian populism, from Berlin to Nevada, and the moral forcefield surrounding farmers’ protests, defending them from criticism. #FarRight#Fascism#Populism#Farming#Agriculture#EUPol#USPol
Des procédures facilitées pour la construction de bâtiments d’élevage et de mégabassines ; des agriculteurs et agricultrices qui seront moins inquiétés en cas d’entorse au droit de l’environnement.
Telles sont les principales mesures votées par l’Assemblée nationale la nuit dernière, alors qu’elle terminait, de façon accélérée, l’examen de la loi d’orientation agricole...
C'est pas des informations joyeuses mais je vous décrypte ça dans @mediapart
It is now illegal in Kentucky to expose the illegal treatment or processing of animals.
When exposing crime is punished, you are governed by criminals.
To clear up some confusion, the red legislature passed this Ag-Gag law, the governor vetoed it, then the legislature overturned the veto, with a few dissenting votes - but not enough to stop the overturn. So the Ag-Gag law is now adopted.
#Agriculture uses 80% of #ColoradoRiver water annually, and alfalfa hay is responsible for over a third of that.
In 2020, 40% of #California's alfalfa was shrink-wrapped, containerized, and shipped overseas.
"A century-old legal doctrine compels farmers to use as much river water as they’re allotted, or else lose access to the unused portion in the future. That perverse incentive... means that wasteful irrigation methods have not gone out of fashion."
4h de retard, des hués, des violences... mais Macron s'est dit "satisfait" de sa visite au Salon de l'agriculture: "Il a battu son record de présence en restant 13h", se félicite un proche. Les médias en font une lecture différente: "Une journée houleuse" (LCI), "Le Chaos" (Le Figaro), "Un coup de com" (France 24), y compris à l'international où les images "d'une prise d'assaut" d'agriculteurs en colère font le tour du monde.