John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath was written in 1939, and it realistically illustrates the socio-economic impact of the Great Depression and the mid-30s drought on a fictional family, the Joads. The Joads represented the thousands of farmers who suffered great financial loss due to the depression [...] 
Have trouble getting up early on Saturday morning to get to the farmers market? Yeah, me too. And while more supermarkets are featuring more selections of local food on their shelves and in their stalls, there’s nothing quite like that straight-from-the-farm produce. What’s a [...]
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Olive Heffernan
“Imagine farmers being able to determine what to plant and where based on drought forecasts three to five years out”, said Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, in Geneva last month.
Speaking to delegates at the World Climate Conference, Lubchenco was lending her voice to [...]
10:00 a.m.: Carol Browner mentions elements of legislation that would allow farmers to get income by selling credits for carbon banked in their fields through changes in agricultural practices. Some specialists in carbon sequestration through [...]
Myrto, our EU sustainable agriculture campaigner - tells us about the farmers who delivered 180,000 signatures to the EU Commission this month.
âPicture this: nature is like a piano, the music that nature plays with all its piano keys is the biodiversity, imagine now that GMOs [genetically manipulated organisms] [...]
