editor’s note: In a recently disclosed Associated Press investigative report, Monsanto is being investigated for possible antitrust violations regarding its (seed) business licensing practices by the U.S. Department of Justice, and at least two state attorneys general. The video below was originally published in February, 2009; the written post has been updated to reflect new [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 4
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In Claire Hope Cummings very fine book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, she dedicates a chapter to corn, and her visit to a region of Mexico, the center of origin where ancient corn began. Centers of origin, as Cummings explains, are the few places on earth [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 3
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Claire Hope Cummings, in this third segment of interviews hones in upon the essential problems plaguing our agriculture system, she argues is a direct result of the industrialization of agriculture. “Our bodies are not machines”, Cummings reminds us, all the parts of a biological (agriculture) system must remain healthy if [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings
Permaculture: the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways. —National Sustainable Information Service (ATTRA)
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In this 4-part series, [...]
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Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— Part 2
“Before we go back to organic agriculture, somebody is going to have to decide what 50 million people we are going to let starve.” Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture under the Nixon Administration.
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Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow [...]
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Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— An Introduction
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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 [...]
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