Slowing biodiversity loss is more than a desire, it is an imperative if we are to feed everyone well. The problem is that the ideas to slow extinction rates often involve a compromise with food production and...
If the trend of the last 100 years continues, by 2050, three, out of four people will live in urban areas. This urban growth might not be a good thing.
Imagine for a moment that you are in the mind and physically fit body of your ancestor somewhere on the African savanna 70,000 years ago. What happens next?
Historians and anyone with half an eye on the past know that the world changed when abundant coal made industrial energy cheap, then natural gas for lighting, and again when oil replaced coal as the primary energy for...
Do you eat when you're hungry? And when you're hungry, do you choose what you would like to eat or what you should eat or grab what happens to be in the fridge?
Farming was a circular family affair before the arrival of big agriculture with its input heavy production of mostly monoculture crops on fields the size of suburbs. And before that, everyone was close to nature. Will...
It is many a splendid thing when a future King of England and the world's most famous natural historian come together to launch a prize for innovation.
Growth is what we are sold as the only way to make our lives better. Here we utter blasphemy with two additional letters.
I get knocked down, but I get up again. So goes the song, and so too our food production systems. At least, we hope they do.
Mark
