Yes We Can – Feed 9 Billion With Organic Agriculture
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It is possible to feed more than 9 billion people with organic production methods with a small increase in the required crop acreage and with decreased greenhouse gas emission. But this assumes considerable reduction in food wastage and in the quantities of feed grown to animals. That is the conclusion in the paper Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture in Nature Communications by researchers from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Switzerland, the Institute of Environmental Decisions in Switzerland, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Italy, Institute of Social Ecology Vienna in Austria and the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences in the UK.
Citizens’ Enquiry finds rising rates of kidney failure, deaths in villages surrounding IREL’s monazite processing facility in Chatrapur Block, Ganjam District , Odisha, India
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Yes We Can – Feed 9 Billion With Organic Agriculture
by Gunnar Rundgren
It is possible to feed more than 9 billion people with organic production methods with a small increase in the required crop acreage and with decreased greenhouse gas emission. But this assumes considerable reduction in food wastage and in the quantities of feed grown to animals. That is the conclusion in the paper Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture in Nature Communications by researchers from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Switzerland, the Institute of Environmental Decisions in Switzerland, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Italy, Institute of Social Ecology Vienna in Austria and the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences in the UK.
Kidney Failure, Deaths In Villages Surrounding IREL’s Monazite Processing Facility In Odisha
Fact-Finding Report
Citizens’ Enquiry finds rising rates of kidney failure, deaths in villages surrounding IREL’s monazite processing facility in Chatrapur Block, Ganjam District , Odisha, India
Tell Ahed She Can Make Them Go Away, By Magic, And To Sing
by Rima Najjar
I wish Caryl Churchill would write a follow up to her play Seven Jewish Children and call it Seven Palestinian Children.
The Kids The World Forgot
by Ken Hannaford-Ricardi
I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient,theycan often be naïve and almost willfully gullible. They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids.
Shaping The Future
by Sally Dugman
Yes, there is a time when we can not have silence. To have it is to capitulate to our worst tendencies of either expression in indifference or worse, our tendencies to go along with a process of ruination. Accordingly I am dismayed and saddened that my town’s zoning board, when along with a deleterious plan to start building apartments buildings in my section of town (a section in which none of them live, presumably), destroy wetlands on which indigenous species live.
Petro-Islam: The Nexus Between Oil And Terrorism
by Nauman Sadiq
Inquisitive observers of the Middle Eastern politics would naturally wonder why do Western powers prop up the Gulf’s petro-monarchies, knowing fully well that they are the ones responsible for nurturing Islamic extremism? Does this not run counter to their professed goal of eliminating Islamic radicalism and terrorism?
Russia Supplies Military Essentials To Pakistan, Says Russian Minister
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov has said that his country was supplying military equipment to Pakistan. Morgulov’s statement came on Thursday (Jan 18) in a geo-political conference organized jointly by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and an Indian think-tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
Frightened Roses!
by Muhammad Muzaffar
Heart-rending images of ill-fated Zainab were shared on social media as a mark of solidarity and sympathy. The wound was still fresh and bleeding, when another similar spine-chilling news broke out. An eight year old girl, belonging to a poor nomadic community (Bakerwal) of Kathua district of Jammu province met the same fate. Asifa Bano was forcibly abducted, molested and killed, leaving her parents in the same shock and trauma as that of Zainab of pakistan.
Kasur’s Zainab And The Tragedy Beyond
by Basharat Shameem
The recent dastardly incidents of the rape and murder of Zainab in Kasur, Pakistan, Ayesha in Mardan, Pakistan, Asifa in Kathua, two young girls in Jind and Panipat in Harayana, and also the unabated rape incidents in other parts of India, have and must shock us all.
The Arithmetic of Protest
by Ra Sh
The pairs of feet that passed him by in a second
Equals 2 x 60x 60x24x 766 = 13,23,64,800, say 13 crores.
The 2011 census pegs the population of Kerala at 3.33 crores.
Which shows that Kerala trampled over him
four times in 766 days,
without seeing him.
That’s statistics for you.
Bhima Koregaon Incident And Rightwing Propaganda
by T Navin
Recently, there was violence in Maharashtra on 1st January 2018 as persons carrying saffron flags attacked people at Bhima Koregaon. In the violence a person died, many injured and vehicles were damaged. The propaganda by rightwing media is to attribute the violence to ‘instigating speeches’ by younger activists who had gathered.
Bhima-Koregaon And Continuing Atrocities Against Dalits And Minorities: Open Letter To Prime Minister Of India
This open letter by UK organisations listed at the end call on you, the Prime minster of India, to take action against the perpetrators of violence against Dalits. We also call on you to release the many thousands of Dalits falsely arrested and imprisoned since the peaceful remembrance of the 1818 battle at Bhima-Koregaon.
Kamal Haasan’s Dravidian Identity Project
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Kamal Haasan has called for strengthening a Pan Indian Dravidian identity and asked the chief ministers of all the South Indian States : Tamilnadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to have a join front so that they can have regional autonomy as well as act as a front against the north Indian Aryan dominance. Is it a right strategy?
Deconstructing The “Education – Industry Interface”
by Nivedita Dwivedi
With the instrumental value of education acquiring center-stage in today’s world, it is being increasingly and more and more vociferously argued that forging and fostering strong education-industry linkages is the need of the hour. Is it right?
Extrajudicial Murder Of Pashtun Exposes State Brutality In Pakistan
by Ali Mohsin
The murder of a Pashtun man in Karachi by the Sindh police last week has brought renewed attention to the brutal practices of Pakistan’s police and security forces.
Public Transport: Some Models
by Vidyadhar Date
Some suggestions to improve public transport
Until
by Richard Oxman
No matter whether one believes in God, I should think that everyone who’s been paying attention to our horrid societal and environmental momentum can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a personal physical ailment, the unnecessary extinction of a given species as a painful collective disfigurement, and the torture of other human beings as an abomination.
Cape Rape
by Valleria Ruselli
Africa has been raped directly for centuries. Now we witness what I call indirect rape… violation through neglect.
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