Philanthropist Howard Buffett Could the next green revolution be brown? Philanthropist Howard Buffett, who has joined Microsoft founder Bill Gatesin pouring money into agriculture development, used an appearance at the World Food Prize symposium on Wednesday to call for a “brown revolution” that would involve boosting food production through improving the soil. And the theme [...]
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Should the next green revolution be brown?
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Greater focus needed on carbon sequestration in the world’s soil
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon market, Clean Seed Capital, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The world’s soils have the potential to store about 3000 megatonnes of carbon per year by the end of the 21st century, according to a new study. It suggests that restoring carbon to cropland and peat soils through practices such as afforestation and no-till farming could help solve global problems of food insecurity and climate [...]
Conserving and Rebuilding Soils
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earth Policy Institute on October 6, 2010 By Lester R. Brown The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the “loss of protective vegetation.” Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover that the world is quickly losing soil accumulated over long stretches of geological time [...]
The Global Battle to Conserve and Rebuild Soil
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the “loss of protective vegetation.” Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover that the world is quickly losing soil accumulated over long stretches of geological time (see “Civilization’s Foundation Eroding“). Preserving the biological productivity of highly erodible [...]
Fifty Years of Service to Agriculture
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was 1956, and Bob Klein was a young teenage farm boy growing up on the High Plains near David City, Nebraska. It was a prolonged drought, and Klein can still recall seeing dust clouds from his second story window. “When I grew up, seeing those dust storms and those crops that amounted to nothing [...]
Healthier Soils Needs To Be The Aim
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The health of the soil is improved by limiting disturbances, Ray Archuleta, NRCS researcher, told attendees of a training event on no-till and cover crops in Greensburg, Ind. Cover crops are important not only for providing cover and protection to the topsoil, but also for creating diversity that creates a support network to hold soil [...]
Hundreds attend no-till conference
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
learning about the benefits of no-till farming. Speakers at the conference, which was hosted by No Till on The Plains, included Jill Clapperton, Francis Yeatman, Paul Jasa, Kristine Nichols and Kenneth Miller, who are all involved in some aspect of farming. Presenters came as far away as South Africa. The event featured a morning of [...]
Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, investment, No Till Farming, Sustainable on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The miracle of the cerrado IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in this part of the cerrado (Brazil’s savannah). Native shrubs later reclaimed some of it. Now every field tells the story [...]
Adapting agriculture to mitigate climate change
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, August 23, 2010 From droughts in Mexico to floods in Pakistan and deadly heat in the US, extreme weather events are increasing due to global warming. Experts have stated concern that these could lead to instability in global agriculture markets and even conflicts over food, similar to those seen in 2007 and 2008. In [...]
UN launches decade-long drive to combat desertification
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, investment, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
16 August 2010 – The United Nations today unveiled a decade-long push to raise awareness and mobilize action to fight desertification, which threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in 100 countries. Desertification is defined as the degradation of drylands, which comprise more than 40 per cent of the world’s land surface [...]
