Agriculture

ISSUES

Yield and environment don't necessarily go hand in hand

Agricultural practices vary a lot. Industrialised countries practice heavily mechanised and subsidized intensive farming Intensive mechanised farming also exists in emerging countries and in the 19 industrialised Cairns Group countries, but it is not subsidized and to a varying extent utilizes agricultural inputs (pesticides, fertilisers) In developing countries, farming is also slowly becoming mechanised ; but it does not use many agricultural inputs and in some countries, such as India, it may be subsidized, For major producers (wheat, rice, coffee, etc.), this very much depends on the fluctuation of world prices. In mountainous regions and in semi-arid areas, animal husbandry conducted responsibly presents many advantages such as : upgrading of a poor biomass which cannot be used for other activities ; production of high quality goods ; good landscape management and creation of jobs and thus income for the farmers

NEWS

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NORWAY - OSLO - La banque de semences végétales de l'archipel arctique du Svalbard, surnommée l'"Arche de Noé verte", a franchi...

FRANCE - STRASBOURG - Les élus Verts du Parlement européen ont dénoncé mardi à Strasbourg la "précipitation" du président de la...

FRANCE - BREST - Des associations de défense de l'environnement du Finistère ont déposé mardi une nouvelle plainte contre X au...

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DEBATES

Africa’s Urban Farmers

Juliet Torome

Even though Wangari lives in Kenya’s capital, she is able to reap hundreds of dollars a year in profit from cash crops grown with...

Fighting Biopiracy

The bean for which Proctor was granted a patent is a...

A Big Chance for Small Farmers

During 2002-2006, I led the United Nations Millennium...

INITIATIVE

Le temps n’est pas que de l’argent, c’est aussi du miel…

Depuis dix ans environ, les abeilles disparaissent par milliers. Ce phénomène baptisé en 2006 « syndrome d'effondrement des colonies » (Colony Collapse Disorder, ou CCD) se répand rapidement dans le monde. Certains disent que si l’abeille...

VIDEOS

16/02/2010	Depuis que les abeilles ont disparu au Sichuan, les hommes répandent à la...	03/02/2010	Coline Serreau dresse dans « Solutions locales pour désordre global », son...
08/01/2010	Face à la prolifération des algues vertes en Bretagne, des agriculteurs...	08/01/2010	DIRT! The Movie, tells the amazing and little known story of the...

GREEN TIPS

Farmers have a say/ their say

The organisation Radios Rurales Internationales, which is based in Ottawa is a local radio network installed...

INDICATORS

Pesticide use
Degraded soils
Undernourishment
Arable land

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