http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aSrBO4_qPzo Thatcher: the ‘Iron Lady’, ‘the first woman Prime-Minister’, ‘the discordant politician’. As I sit here watching the funeral of the first and, as yet, the only woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom I thought it would be interesting to look into her own environmental agenda. Margaret Thatcher was one of the most divisiveContinueContinue reading “Margaret Thatcher: the Environmentalist?”
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Next generation interested in food?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=F7Id9caYw-Y In the UK and US we are constantly told in the press that we fail in what should be an obligation to educate children about food production, manufacture, cooking and consumption. Even if you don’t fully agree with what 11 year old Birke Baehr says in this TEDx lecture you have to admire hisContinueContinue reading “Next generation interested in food?”
Livestock Management: the solution to preventing desertification?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gzfWGDCi9qc Allan Savory directs some strong words towards the scientific community in this short lecture. He raises some highly important issues and one in particular that is relevant to a theme I am trying to raise awareness of through this blog: never discount an option for the sake of it. We must sometimes think outsideContinueContinue reading “Livestock Management: the solution to preventing desertification?”
Jonathan Foley’s ‘Other Inconvenient Truth’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uJhgGbRA6Hk Jonathan Foley sets out the problems that world agriculture will face over the coming decades. Thank you to Janina’s ‘Food (policy) for thought’ blog for directing me to this lecture. http://foodpolicyforthought.wordpress.com/about/
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