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Small Scale Farming: Simple, Successful, Sustainable

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Small Scale Farming: Simple, Successful, Sustainable

Sugeno-san is a philosopher. His love affair with the land is poetry. “These trees are planted by our ancestors. These ‘tambos’ — the orderly descending terraces of rice paddy fields — are blessings from our communal mountains and forests. We smallholder farmers are the guardians of this Earth. It is our ancestral connection with their spirits. We pay our respects by respecting the land.” I realise that this deep and profound link between our planet and our humanity is being shattered by our human greed and ever-rising consumption.  Read more…

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Global Agricultural Water Use and Outlook

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Global Agricultural Water Use and Outlook

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Source: United Nations FAO

 

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Comienza hoy el juicio por la ‘Ley Tito Kayak’ – En 2011 arrestaron a seis por objetar los aerogeneradores

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Comienza hoy el juicio por la ‘Ley Tito Kayak’

En 2011 arrestaron a seis por objetar los aerogeneradores

Frente de Rescate Agricola

 

Crisis Alimentaria en Puerto Rico/ Arrestad@s Santa Isabel

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Crisis Alimentaria en Puerto Rico/ Arrestad@s Santa Isabel

How Climate Change is Destroying the Earth – Infographic by LEARNSTUFF.COM

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Climate-Change

Is Global Warming Real?

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I gave this homework assignment to my Agroclimatology class today.  Perhaps you would like to try it?

Homework Problem:  Do you believe that global warming is real?

Please read the articles and watch the YouTube video at the following links and provide me with a 1 page argument either for or against man-made global warming. (If you are not in my class, you don’t have to submit the 1 page argument, however, you may want to leave a comment below.)

Climate Change: ‘Hoax’ Or Crime Of The Century?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/

Most Used Climate Myths and what the science says….
http://www.skepticalscience.com/

TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege – David Roberts – Climate Change is Simple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A7ktYbVwr90

Why 2013 will be a year of crisis

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Why 2013 will be a year of crisis

  • David Frum: The drought in the U.S., Russia and Australia is driving up food prices
  • He says sharp rises in prices have long been tied to unrest among the world’s poor
  • High prices have been cited as a cause of last year’s upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia, he says
  • Frum: The winner of November election in U.S. will have to deal with the consequences

 

Marcha este jueves en el RUM por la seguridad alimentaria – Jueves 30 de agosto a la hora universal

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Rechazan Proceso Judicial Injusto

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Rechazan Proceso Judicial Injusto

Las 6 personas arrestadas el 15 de diciembre de 2011, en la Reserva Agrícola de Santa Isabel, por defender la soberanía alimentaria de Puerto Rico, han decidido renunciar al proceso de Vista Preliminar (VP) por considerarlo un proceso que se ha llevado de una forma amañada y pro forma. La decisión tomada la expresarán en ……(leer más)

http://frapuertorico.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/rechazan-proceso-judicial-injusto/