By Michael Fox

The officers and soldiers stepped from their cars. They were armed, masked and wearing brown camouflage uniforms. There were no words. They began to fire. Rubber bullets. Tear gas. The residents screamed, forced from their homes, running through the red dirt streets of their communities ( Read more... )

A story of Nikolai Vavilov and the survival of his seed bank* back during the Siege of Leningrad

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* aka The Institute of Plant Industry, Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry or All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry (in Russian: Всероссийский институт растениеводства им. Н. И. Вавилова)

by Ahmed Abdulkareem

Between March 2015 and March 2019, the Saudi-led Coalition launched at least 10,000 airstrikes in Yemen that struck farms, 800 that struck local food markets, and about 450 airstrikes that hit silos and other food storage facilities.HODEIDA, YEMEN - The country of Yemen, known in the medieval period as “Green Yemen,” is one of ( Read more... )

• After so many years of war, the main crop of Afghanistan's "gutted" economy is still, shockingly, opium.
• Australia becomes 2nd-highest grower of almonds because the top grower, California, recognises it uses too much water... so, crony-capitalism plus a "waters"-market + almonds and cotton kills the Murray-Darling
• Peter 'something you scrape off the ( Read more... )

An important point left until the end basically, California, previously the top producer of almonds, is cutting back on production because it has been recognised as being so ridiculously water-intensive to grow. Ah, Australia, always a few decades behind the rest of the world.

On 7am PodcastThe Murray-Darling Basin is being ruined by cronyism and ( Read more... )

This certainly looks to me like the government, made of those who make a point of courting, and being supported by, rural Australia, still have zero idea or, very probably, interest in supporting Australia's farmers. That said, maybe farmers should be considering to what they can change considering the likely continued increase in heat and drought ( Read more... )

The livestock industry is trashing the living world, and free-range, pasture-fed meat is the worst offender.

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It’s tragic missed opportunity. The new report on land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shies away from the big issues and fails properly to represent the science. As a result, it gives us few clues about how we ( Read more... )