All posts in Agriculture & Food

Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
December 9, 2009, 1 Comment

Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters ...

Wednesday Night #1429
July 22, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1429

Montreal matters Beryl has produced a Manifesto – “A Freer, Fairer, Richer Montreal” – in pamphl ...

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009
July 14, 2009, Comments Off on G8 Summit July 8-10 2009

 The Road to Italy’s 2009 G8 Summit – all major meetings since the G8 Summit of 2008 Kimon Valaskakis write ...

Wednesday Night #1427
July 8, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1427

Science and ethics The announcement that British scientists claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory from emb ...

Jeff Rubin: Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
June 15, 2009, 2 Comments

A peak at oil reserves (The Economist) ACCORDING to BP, an oil company, the world has enough oil reserves to meet demand ...

Chatham House Food Supply Project
April 22, 2009, Comments Off on Chatham House Food Supply Project

Thinking About the Future of Food The Chatham House Food Supply Scenarios * Demand for food is increasing because the gl ...

Russia
January 19, 2009, 1 Comment

Ukraine gas dispute exposes political fault lines In its failed head-to-head showdown with Russia over a natural gas pay ...

A critique of the Food Mile Perspective
October 30, 2008, Comments Off on A critique of the Food Mile Perspective

We are delighted to hear from former (because they moved to Toronto) Wednesday Nighters Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shi ...

Climate Change & social justice
August 8, 2008, Comments Off on Climate Change & social justice

August 7 2008 Hypocrites Unite! At least we have some ideals to fall short of. George Monbiot The environment is inseper ...

Moscow to seize grain export controls
July 31, 2008, Comments Off on Moscow to seize grain export controls

July 31, 2008 (FT) Russia plans to form a state grain trading company to control up to half of the country’s cereal ex ...