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Producers and consumers of organic foods from Iowa and surrounding states will gather at the ninth annual Iowa Organic Conference Friday, Dec. 4, and Saturday, Dec. 5.
Many grass-roots food groups have formed recently in the Bay Area with the goal of connecting people to one another, and to the producers who feed them.
As climate change accelerates, so too will hunger, poverty, and perhaps even social unrest.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet issued a declaration on climate change after an outdoor meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest, in a region where shrinking glaciers threaten rivers essential to development in China, India and Pakistan.
(Corrects date of Maldives meeting in seventh paragraph.) Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet met at the Mount Everest base camp to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
Thursday, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, chaired by Congressman Tim Holden of Pennsylvania, continued its review of climate change issues by examining the costs and benefits of agriculture offset proposals.
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
The fungus Ascochyta rabiei threatens chickpea crops the world over. But now this blight-causing pathogen could meet its match in Aureobasidium pullulans, a rival fungus that Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are investigating as a biocontrol agent.
Paula Hawkins, the feisty, self-described "housewife from Maitland" who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82.
Making art from things that would have otherwise ended up as trash supports one of Metro Justice's values --- and helps round out their Alternative Fair, which will run today and Saturday at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 South Winton Road.
STARKVILLE — Collaboration between a Mississippi State University (MSU) research agronomist and Georgia’s self-proclaimed “sodfather” may offer a viable grassy feedstock to capitalize on sustainable bioenergy production.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet met at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
Ah, the greens. They're not just treehuggers anymore. They've been browbeating us to recycle, eat soy, save energy, drive less, ride the bus, and a thousand other ways to "act local" for many years now.
Find out what some progressive companies are doing to keep employees healthy and productive while controlling their health care costs. The 2009 NHBR Health Care Forum, sponsored by MVP Health Care , addresses the new connections between nutrition, lifetime wellness and its positive impact on health care cost trends.
Impatience with the glacial pace of global free trade negotiations prompted calls this week for the Doha round to be smashed into smaller and more digestible mini-deals that could be agreed quickly.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat declined for a fourth straight day on concern global stockpiles will rise through the next season as demand lags behind production.
The ancient chestnut tree that cheered up Jewish teenager Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis is dying, but thanks to a planting campaign now under way its descendants will live on around the globe.
Budget cuts are forcing the Kansas Department of Agriculture to temporarily suspend safety and sanitation inspections of hotels across the state.
Budget cuts are forcing the Kansas Department of Agriculture to temporarily suspend safety and sanitation inspections of hotels across the state. Agriculture Secretary Josh Svaty (SWA-TEE) says Thursday that the suspensions are a result of Gov. Mark Parkinson'... Mark Parkinson - Kansas - United States - Kansas Department of Agriculture - United States Department of Agriculture
Ken Beck isn't much of a golf fan, but the 48-year-old corn farmer was a little relieved to have Tiger Woods' troubles to discuss.
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