Indian State of Kerala Starts 10-Year Conversion to All-Organic Farming
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The southern Indian state of Kerala has officially announced a new farming policy which aims to covert all agriculture in the state to organic methods over the next ten years. In the first phase 30,000 hectares converted, The Hindu Business Line reports, and then proceeds in a “phased and compact manner.”…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Urban Farming is Still a Great Idea
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Urban farming is not a new idea but it is a great one. Good guest blogger Stacey Murphy explains how decentralized urban farming might be the future of food in the United States….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Do Vertical Farms Make Sense?
SoA Architects- the future of farming?
Philip Proefrock and TreeHugger emeritus Hank Green are no fun at a party, if it is a party like the one designers and bloggers like us have been having on the subject of vertical farms for the last five years. From Mike’s first post in 2005 (showing SoA Architectes iconic tower) to Romses Architects <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/romses-architects-verti…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Warming Arctic Will Impact the World Beyond Current Predictions (Video)
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A report from the World Wildlife Fund has determined that the melting of the Arctic will impact other areas of the globe far more than we’ve been expecting so far. In its Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications Report, WWF says that the effects of the warming of the Arctic will be worse than previously prediced on everything from farming to forestry worldwide. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Hydroponic Ferris Wheel Optimizes Growth: The OmegaGarden (Video)
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When I wrote about marijuana as a possible gateway to farming, I noted that much of the hydroponic supply market seems to be marketed toward, shall we say, recreational growers of certain herbs – and often not very subtly. But as we’ve seen, hydroponics also has applications in everything from rooftop agriculture to <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/aqua…Read the full story on TreeHugger
World’s Farms Have More Tree Cover Than Believed: World Agroforestry Centre
Agroforestry plot in Ethiopia. Photo: Trees for the Future via flickr.
The World Agroforestry Centre has just released a new report showing that while farming and deforestation are often linked together — particularly when talking about the developing world — in fact about half of all the farms in the world have “significant” forest cover:…Read the full story on TreeHugger