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A Green Agenda for Our Food System 2013.04.24해당카페글 미리보기
diet, resulting in massive public health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. It promotes monoculture crops rather than diversified sustainable farming. The subsides overwhelming goes to corporate agribusiness...
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How Our Health Depends on Biodiversity 2013.05.31해당카페글 미리보기
360 contributor Jack Hitt, Pollan talked about how his research led him on a journey that ranged from the monoculture fields of U.S. commodity agriculture to the bacterial world inside the human body. And he noted the fundamental...
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A War on Want: Taking back control of our food system 2011.08.26해당카페글 미리보기
a wide variety of crops, as smallholders had done for centuries, the Green Revolution promoted the spread of monoculture farming. This, in turn, exacerbated the concentration of land in the hands of fewer and fewer landowners. As farmers...
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Global Land Grab 2011.08.25해당카페글 미리보기
key perk for investors. If history is any guide, eventually—but not before great profits can be extracted—industrial monoculture agriculture will deplete soil and water; the perpetual chemical inputs including fertilizers, pesticides...
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Eight ways Monsanto fails at sustainable agriculture 2012.02.14해당카페글 미리보기
up in non-GE crops. And when this happens, sustainable farmers—and their customers—pay a high price. Expanding Monoculture Monsanto’s emphasis on limited varieties of a few commodity crops contributes to reduced biodiversity and, as a...
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Industrial agriculture causes hunger 2012.08.30해당카페글 미리보기
that can be globally traded as a commodity. The focus on “yield” of individual commodities creates what I call a “monoculture of the mind”. The promotion of so-called high-yield crops leads to the destruction of biodiversity...
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Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba 2013.03.20해당카페글 미리보기
for self-sufficiency, resistance to neocolonialist development projects, innovations in agroecology, alternatives to monoculture, and a more environmentally sustainable society. Instead of turning towards austerity measures and making...
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Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coin 2012.07.02해당카페글 미리보기
facing a new hunger crisis because of land grabbing, forced evictions and water diversion to create large-scale monoculture plantations of palm oil trees and sugar cane for biofuel. In one such case in March last year, Guatemalan police...
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Stuffed and Starved round two: Raj Patel talks about our crazy global food system 2012.07.03해당카페글 미리보기
specious on many levels: it ignores distribution, it misrepresents what GM can do and distorts the conversation towards a monoculture rather than a diversified polyculture that we need for the future. S: The Zapatistas offer one of the...
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Food sovereignty has a woman’s face 2012.05.14해당카페글 미리보기
the eviction from their lands and consequent profiting by national and transnational companies from large-scale monoculture production for global export, and the open-air mega-mining projects that threaten our water resources, are all...