From the early 1960’s countries struggling with the challenge of maintaining their levels of food production against population growth embraced emergent technologies, technologies manufactured, for the most part, in developed countries from 1943 onwards.
The result? Swelling yields of basic food stuffs. Wheat yields, for example, grew from below 500kg per hectare to just under 3,000kg [...]

A British businessman wants to reintroduce once-native animals to his estate in the Scottish highlands.
Multimillionaire Paul Lister, son of the owner of the UK furniture store chain MFI, has already brought a pair of moose purchased from Sweden - he flew them back on a chartered plane. Hulda and Hercules are now free to explore [...]

On Thursday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva revealed that he will be creating another 3 protected reserves in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. 23 million hectares of the forest are currently protected by the government - a further 2.6 million will be included in the expansion proposals.
Lula stressed that the move is not an [...]

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The demonstration was estimated to be 10,000 strong and comprised of 20 tones of free fish being distributed outside the ministry for Spanish agriculture. This attempt to increase support for the plight of the fisherman left hundreds of boats harbored in ports across the coast as their crews travelled to [...]

A study by the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group has shown that organic milk is significantly more beneficial than the more popular non-organic milk we find on the shelves of our major supermarkets.
The study reveals that milk from conventional dairy farm cows is much lower in important anti-oxidants and vitamins than milk produced by cows which [...]

Spain, which is suffering its worst draught in 40 years, has resorted to importing drinking water from Marseilles, the Independent reported yesterday. The first water-carrying tanker unloaded 36 million litres of drinking water in Barcelona, where chronic shortages have forced the local government to import water from both domestic and international sources. In May this [...]

Brazil’s radical environment minister resigned yesterday after losing a series of battles to protect the rainforest. The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been more concerned in recent years with the economic development of the country. Marina Silva’s resignation high lights this fact and could be a set back for Brazil’s desire [...]