After the recent article and post on Sudan’s food insecurity and humanitarian crisis, another article focused on agricultural solutions in Africa hit today. This article from The Conversation about the book, Decolonising African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation, by William G. Moseley. The UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in…
The symphony of articles surfacing on western culture’s preference for over-consumption continues with Grist this week. The article highlights a Netflix documentary that I will NOT plug here, and their focus (both Netflix and Grist) seems to be on the apparel industry. I see little difference between industries – so generalizable imho. Grist sets it…
Unless you live in bell jar, you have heard about the Garbage Patches floating in our oceans – huge collections of plastic garbage floating in the ocean like islands. A recent study I found on BlueSky discussed multi-year data collection on the North Pacific Garbage Patch. As the non-scientist X-tech guy, the data collection and…
When, save the last 100 years or so, has agriculture focused on a single product (plant, e.g., corn or soybeans, rice or peanuts, etc.)? Probably never intentionally – remember the oft cited ‘Three Sisters’ from Native American practices. According to Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D. Administrator, Agricultural Research Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture, “in agricultural parlance, ‘The…
