You can help to preserve and maintain marine life – see a simple list of things to do in buying seafood …
Agriculture Articles
How biochar fertilization works…and practical techniques from Nepal
Biochar captures and releases nutrients (eg nitrogen and phosphorus) slowly into the soil to improve crop yields over an entire growing season and beyond – find out why …
Fisheries
Oceans are under a great threat by many factors including overfishing, climate change, maritime traffic, pollution and …
Declining fish catches
Soooo many boats chasing sooooo few fish …
The inglorious outcome should be clear …
Pesticides: Benefits and drawbacks; Possibilities for control; EU policies
This article reports on the serious defects of pesticides: risks to human health, loss of biodiversity, destruction of pollinators, and the inefficiency of aerial spraying.
Measures to make livestock production sustainable
Livestock are responsible for 11.8% GHG emissions measured in CO2 equivalent, according to FAO (2006),...
Livestock, Environment & Learnings
Livestock consume about 1/3 of global crop production, 4/5 of the world’s agricultural land is used for grazing or feed and fodder. However meat supplies only 15% of the total energy and 30% protein in the global human diet. We can do better than this.
Cowspiracy’s Facts
Facts on cows, greenhouse gases, CO2, methane… From Cowspiracy
Vanishing honey bees
Where have all the bees gone ? Why ? What to do about it ? A video by Emma Bryce on TED.
Waste less food
Almost 4 billions tonnes of food is produced each year. A third is wasted. What to do ?