Kit Knightly On November 29th, the British Parliament’s cross-party Environmental Audit Committee published a new report on “Environmental change and food security”. The timing of the report is more than interesting, considering the UN’s COP28 summit published its own “Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action” (which the UK signed) just two …
Colin Todhunter Bayer, which profits from various environmentally harmful and disease-causing chemicals like glyphosate, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) “to develop resource-efficient, climate-resilient solutions for crops, varieties, crop protection, weed and mechanization”. The ICAR, an apex public sector institution, is responsible for co-ordinating agricultural education and research in India. …
Colin Todhunter MS Swaminathan, widely regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India, recently passed away (28 September) at the age of 98. An agronomist, agricultural scientist and plant geneticist, Swaminathan played a key role in introducing hybrid high yielding varieties of wheat and rice to India and in encouraging many farmers to adopt high-input, …
Henrik cover some of the latest news in this No-Go Zone August 16, 2023.
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Henrik cover some of the latest news in this No-Go Zone August 16, 2023.
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Colin Todhunter Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25 million. In 2023, the World Population Review website estimates Delhi’s population to be 32.9 million. In the December 2016 paper Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands, it was projected that by 2030, globally, …
In case you didn’t realise it, there is a war on British farmers, a war on farmers everywhere. We can argue about who is behind it, the World Economic Forum, the Illuminati, the Elders of Zion, or Xi Jinping, but there is no doubt it is happening, and unless we do something about it PDQ, […]
Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25 million. In 2023, the World Population Review website estimates Delhi’s population to be 32.9 million. In the December 2016 paper Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands, it was projected that by 2030, globally, urban areas […]
Colin Todhunter The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, …
