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Perennial Crops to Save Civilization; Food, Farming, Climate; Queensland Tells Growers Use Harmful Chemicals
Perennial crops may save human civilization. A 79-year-old man in the central U.S. small town of Salina, Kansas, has worked on the solution to global soil erosion for some 40 years. His method is crazy — replacing annual crops with perennial ones.
Food, Farming and Climate Change: It’s Bigger than Everything Else. Recreating a political economy that fosters and safeguards small-scale farmers is critical to addressing not only climate change but hunger and inequality as well.
Queensland accused of directing growers to use chemical known to harm waterways. As the banana industry faces its biggest ever biosecurity threat, there are concerns about the chemical that banana growers have been directed to use to decontaminate vehicles and farm machinery.
