Full Coverage: Agriculture

29.11.2006 Governments have not given ample priority to agriculture, the lifeblood of the rural areas where over 70 percent of the world’s hungry people live.

29.11.2006 Getachew and Ingida are seasoned farmers in the fertile area of Debre Zeit in rural Ethiopia who have shared their views on the hardship of feeding growing families.

29.11.2006 The Slow Food Movement encourages a return to traditional recipes and more direct links between producers and consumers.

29.11.2006 As more and more Americans become familiar with the amount of artificial ingredients, pesticides, genetically modified organisms, and chemical preservatives that exist in processed foods, they are increasingly turning toward organic products.

29.11.2006 Take a closer look at what's in the food we eat.

29.11.2006 From organizing small farmers to locally sourcing food aid, there are plenty of innovative projects being implemented around the world to minimize hunger and poverty.

29.11.2006 Make responsible food choices, support family farmers around the world, volunteer, host a film screening, and more!

29.11.2006 OneWorlders weigh in from Kenya, Chile, India, North Carolina, Nigeria, and beyond.
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29.11.2006 Food should give life, cleanse the body, and uplift the spirit. What you put on your table is both a political statement and a mirror of who you really are.

29.11.2006 The simple choice to eat locally produced food can have important consequences for the environment, our health, and economies worldwide.

29.11.2006 Farmers helping their brothers, so that they can help themselves to find solutions and not be dependent on the technician or on the bank. That is Campesino a Campesino.

29.11.2006 Among the priorities of many environmentalists is to shorten the distance from farm to table.

29.11.2006 The first commodity exchange opened in Chicago 150 years ago to help farmers ensure a stable demand for their crop. Facing similar issues, Ethiopia is now looking into developing a similar system--based on its own needs.

29.11.2006 In Ethiopia, like in many countries in transition, there is a deep mistrust of traders. But without them, how would the country achieve its goal of commercializing agriculture?

29.11.2006 Commercializing agriculture—and creating a “new farmer” as the government aims to do—is no easy task, especially in a country where both the roads and telecommunications structures are among the weakest in the world.

29.11.2006 From seed breeding to GMOs, do new technologies hold the solution to world hunger? Or are they a pandora's box?

29.11.2006 Are economies of scale needed to feed a global population of over 6 billion people at a relatively low cost?

29.11.2006 Smallholder farms are both durable and integral to combating rural poverty.

29.11.2006 A growing number are choosing more organic and locally produced products, eschewing the hidden costs in the conventional food system.

29.11.2006 Changing lives depends most on listening to people and understanding what motivates them.