Agriculture

Agriculture (literally meaning "the tillage of a field") has long been thought to be the impetus for civilization and societies as we know them today.

Because man was able to conquer the animal and plant kingdoms via agriculture, tribes were able to stay in one place and settle into communities and tribes as opposed to being "hunter-gatherer" societies that roamed the earth up until about 10,000 years ago.


Agriculture has been marked by developments and innovations that have launched it into what it is today. Farming, irrigation, crop rotation, animal transportation, plows, pesticides, fertilizers, and biotechnology have all done their part in refining and improving the way agriculture is practiced and how it benefits the human family. In recent years, ethanol, methane, and the pellet mill have all been introduced as a way to cleanly and safely recycle agriculture residue into clean, reusable energy.

But not all of the farming advances have been good. Destruction and depletion of the environment, animal cruelty in the form of intensive pig and chicken farming, and selective breeding have been the cause of heavy protesting and lobbying in Washington D.C.

Bloggers speaking about agriculture can be found at sites like agricultureresources and capitalpress.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Agriculture”

• African Agriculture Development Meeting Opens in Abuja

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The 5th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership Platform Meeting opened on Monday in Abuja with more than 50 African countries and donor agencies in attendance. The meeting is being held in preparation of the three-day World Summit on Food Security in Rome (16-18 November) where ...
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• Nitrogen Loss Threatens Desert Plant Life (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091106145308.htmNitrogen Loss Threatens Desert Plant Life, Study ShowsScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2009) — As the climate gets warmer, arid soils lose nitrogen as gas, reports a new Cornell study. That could lead to deserts with even less plant life than ...
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• FAO and EU : Seed and fertilizer to Pakistani farmers (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsPAKISTANI FARMERS GET HELP TO BOOST PRODUCTION FROM UN, EUROPEAN UNIONNew York, Nov  9 2009 10:05AMThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (<”http://www.fao.org/”>FAO) and the European Union (EU) have partnered to provide seed and fertilizer to almost 100,000 farmers in rural ...
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• Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and ...
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• Lessons in Oil for Groundwater Conservation?

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  An Oregon State University professor sees the oil industry as a potential model for making groundwater resources last.
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• Embracing Cooking and My Camera

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  I moved into a new apartment last weekend and with all the positive energy that comes from being in a new space I made a resolution to eat less processed food and to cook more.  It is SO easy to eat out here in New York City (and anywhere really) and all too often I get lazy and eat food that is processed and that I ...
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• The Effects of Population Growth on Land Use

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 512
  In an article in Yale University’s Environment 360 , Jonathan Foley, Director of the Institute of the Environment , University of Minnesota, argues that the global community now faces a “crisis in land use and agriculture that could undermine the health, security, and sustainability of our civilization.” ...
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• Mayawati urges centre to resolve sugarcane farmers’s woes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday urged the central government to resolve the woes of the state’s 4.9 million sugarcane farmers, who are staging demonstrations in many parts of the state for higher prices.Addressing a press conference on her behalf, Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar ...
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• Debate: Modern Pork Production and H1N1

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  A debate over the connection between large-scale concentrated animal feeding operations and the spread of the H1N1 virus is spilling into the mainstream.
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• More farmers skirting EPA regulations on GM corn

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Greenwire : Farmers growing genetically engineered corn are increasingly not complying with federal rules intended to maintain the corn’s resistance to insects, according to a report released yesterday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. As many as 25 percent of farmers growing pesticide -freighted Bt ...
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• Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  The Brazilian government will soon hold its first wind-only energy auction, as the nation tries to diversify its energy portfolio beyond hydropower.
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• The Hazards of Meat-Eating Hit the Mainstream Media

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 127
  I’ve been vegan for twenty years. As I learned about the plight of animals in modern agriculture from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation , John Robbins’ Diet for a New America and numerous undercover films that showed the conditions under which the great majority of animals are raised for food, I knew I ...
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• Cairo’s black cloud

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 130
  Image via Wikipedia Rice, a staple of the Egyptian diet, is normally grown on some 486,000 hectares of Egypt’s 3.2 million hectares of agricultural land. This year, farmers grew rice on an additional 162,000 hectares of land. Agriculture experts say that 0.404 hectares (one acre) of rice produces two tons of ...
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• More farmers skirting EPA regulations on GM corn

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 434
  Greenwire : Farmers growing genetically engineered corn are increasingly not complying with federal rules intended to maintain the corn’s resistance to insects, according to a report released yesterday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. As many as 25 percent of farmers growing pesticide -freighted ...
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• Debate: Modern Pork Production and H1N1

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A debate over the connection between large-scale concentrated animal feeding operations and the spread of the H1N1 virus is spilling into the mainstream.
  9 hours ago

• Property rights, prior appropriation & public trust

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 598
  In the course of writing this post , Michael Hanemann and I debated the nature and importance of property rights. Michael said: "Priority in appropriative water rights is rhetoric, not a functioning legal rule; it is a convenient myth that makes small children and economists happy." He sent along a few documents ...
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• HPCL Biofuels Job vacancy Nov09

  
  ?????? ????? - Government Jobs India - Sarkari Naukri — Authority: 141
  Published by Manisha for sarkari-naukri.blogspot.com HPCL Biofuels Limited  (A wholly owned subsidiary company of HPCL) Mumbai Refinery, P.O. Box. No. 18820, B.D. Patil Marg, Mahul, Mumbai - 400074 HPCL Biofuels Limited requires the following personnel especially working in Sugar Industry and having ...
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• The Netherlands Donates $23.5 Million For Safe Water In Sudan

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  The Dutch Government has given $23.5 million to UNICEF in Sudan which will be used to provide safe water and improved sanitation for hundreds of thousands of people across the country. "This very generous contribution by the Dutch Government will have a real impact on saving lives," said Hilde Johnson UNICEFs ...
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• Pattern-based Worship: The loop vs. the line.

  
  Sound and Silence — Authority: 108
  One of the major features of the modern era, from which we are currently emerging, is linearity.  This is propped up by the “myth of progress” wherein all history moves towards the future through Greek conceptions of time – telos (purpose) and chronos (linear time) – expressed though our systemising of ...
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• The Key To Future Food Security

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  "We will need nothing less than a Blue Revolution, if we are to achieve food security and avert a serious water crisis in the future said Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General of the Sri Lanka - based International Water Management Institute.
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