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Climate news and knowledge #14

Author Name: Will Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. This time there is talk of super dairies, sustainable woodland, investment in agriculture and yet more concern over future food prices.

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Jan 14 2011
The threat that dare not speak its name

Author Name: Claire Wyatt Climate change is everywhere, Peak Oil is rising on the political agenda, the fate of the economy is still uncertain, resource wars are looming and yet still very few people mention the elephant in the room that could be the root cause of it all; population.

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Jan 7 2011
The microscopic majority – we ignore them at our peril!

Author Name: Dr Christopher van der Gast Producing sufficient crops while ensuring our farming practices are sustainable is the big challenge for agriculture. But as well as studying and improving crop plants we also have to understand the microbial diversity beneath the surface that allows those plants...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Sep 17 2010

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