Posts Tagged ‘food prices’

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture, part 2 (video)

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture, part 2 (video)

Fred Kirschenmann, a leader in the sustainable food movement, completes his reflections upon the future of agriculture.

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— An Introduction

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— An Introduction

Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and a third-generation farmer (an organic farmer himself), offers some thoughtful reflections upon the future of agriculture. Kirschenmann points out that much of what made modern industrial agriculture possible, depended upon relatively mild and stable climate [...]

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture-Part 1

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture-Part 1

Cooking Up a Story: Food News Fred Kirschenmann steadfastly warns us, conventional agriculture, and its heavy dependence upon fossil fuels, and irrigated water, simply will not continue to offer a viable means for feeding the world. We have been drawing upon nature’s reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those [...]

The Fight Over the World’s Food Systems

Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, provides his analysis of recent riots relating to the disastrous rise in global food prices. In this video produced by Democracy Now, Mr. Patel offers his analysis of the recent riots taking place in developing countries most effected by “this [...]