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Brazil's agricultural miracle: How to feed the world

Posted on: 8 Sep, 2010

The emerging conventional wisdom about world farming is gloomy. There is an alternative, reports The Economist.

I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly

Posted on: 7 Sep, 2010

The ethical case against eating animal produce once seemed clear. But a new book is an abattoir for dodgy arguments, writes George Monbiot in The Guardian.

Who dares question the industrial food system over GM salmon?

Posted on: 7 Sep, 2010

Genetically modified salmon is deemed safe for human consumption – despite higher levels of a suspected carcinogen, reports The Guardian.

BP spill: White House says oil has gone, but Gulf's fishermen are not so sure

Posted on: 6 Sep, 2010

Counsellors and lawyers are busier than seafarers in Louisiana, as some experts warn that fishing industry will never recover, reports The Guardian.

Council gears up for food waste scheme

Posted on: 4 Sep, 2010

Refuse teams in Bath are preparing to launch food waste collections in the city. The weekly collections will begin next month and see around 72,000 households benefitting from the service, reports The Bath Chronicle.

New solutions to an old problem

Posted on: 4 Sep, 2010

When it comes to trash, Austria–the land of skiing, Mozart and The Sound of Music–is the world leader in the amount it diverts from landfills. Metro Vancouver wants to be right up there with them by 2015, when it plans to divert at least 70 per cent of the region’s garbage through recycling programs, reports New Westminster News Leader.

Fairground leftovers tested in waste-to-energy project

Posted on: 3 Sep, 2010

Which waste is the best to convert to energy - animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground food favorites? That's what a Midwest scientist and a group of researchers are exploring at the Minnesota State Fair, reports Reuters.