The retail giant last year unveiled an ambitious sustainability index for its suppliers, and now the company has announced that it plans to double the sales of fresh produce sourced from local farms in U.S. locations by the end of 2015.READ»
While no one advocates that we should stop producing food, when the finger-pointing over climate change begins, the ag industry often gets an unfair shake. If agriculture is so disproportionally bad for the planet, shouldn't ...READ»
"Late blight," related to the disease that caused gthe Irish potato famine in the 1840s, has been ravaging organic farms and gardens in my area of Western Massachusetts. Ironically, it's been traced to <a ...READ»
Yesterday, I wrote about the five most innovative Earth Day initiatives. But a two-week long green initiative from biotech company Bayer takes the crown for the strangest stunt this month. Bayer Healthcare has brought 1,450 sheep ...READ»
I grew up in New York City. I think I knew one family who had a garden, and they lived in a then-rural part of northern Yonkers. Even those others of my parents' friends who'd moved out to the suburbs got their veggies in the ...READ»
FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine
(12/13/2007)
A leader of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says he doesn't ...READ»
