We know that soil carbon is essential for food production from sifting through the science and from our practical experience working with soils from Nairobi to Narrabri. Here is a summary of that logic.
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Mark
Comment | Feeding everyone well means dealing with an elephant
If the world's farmers grow enough food to feed everyone well, why are 800 million people hungry, a billion obese, and 2 billion people with nutrient deficiency?
Producer or keeper. Pastoralists chasing the dollar and the sheep
Humans could only live in certain parts of the world because we domesticated animals, our partners in global expansion and world domination. When we got there, we also had an eye for profit.
Remember, not everyone is wealthy
A great fortune is bestowed on those born into a time of plenty. We are blessed with wealth that can distort our worldview. Sometimes another one is required.
The right to life
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights set an agenda for the common achievement of all peoples, a worthy aspiration that should be at the front of everyone's mind. Here we ask what it means for food.
Intensifying land use has consequences for humanity
Agriculture is essential to humanity. We cannot live in cities or choose not to grow food for ourselves without it. But the current version of agriculture has serious consequences.
The technobabble is out of hand
Plough through the policy technobabble to get to the interesting bit…
Why do we believe what Sir David says?
Sir David Attenborough is a living legend, a UK national treasure. His documentaries inspired generations from the comfort of their armchairs and we believed everything he said.
How to avoid the classic blah, blah, blah
Infuriation, that feeling of extreme anger and impatience, can get the better of anyone. We suffer from it almost daily but find ways around some of it…
Obsession with top down
Sometimes you read a well-meaning research article and all is well until, boom, it hits you. The authors are from somewhere beyond the Orion nebula, over 1,300 light years away. Here is evidence that the aliens have...
