Blog for People, Food and Nature

January 4, 2013

A Future for Agriculture?

As last year came to a close, Oxfam International held a series of online blog discussions on the Future of Agriculture. Over the course of two weeks, professionals from the agricultural development field wrote and commented on various topics from policy to production to indigenous knowledge. The culminating piece, by Roger Thurow of the Chicago […] ...
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January 2, 2013

Water Water Everywhere

Happy New Year! As 2013 gets underway we have one more retrospective on the year past. 2012 saw water issues crop up repeatedly. Droughts, flooding, and storms brought the extremes of water availability into focus, and the dependency of agriculture on the resource made it a key sector. Several case studies from landscapes worldwide highlighted […] ...
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