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Splicing Small Farms into Residential Development

Small farms are increasingly being integrated into new housing development proposals. One new project in Washington is betting on the growing popularity of local food to draw in homebuyers.
19 March 2010 - 5:00am
Crosscut

Land Grab in Africa

In what The Guardian calls "the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era," enormous swaths of African land is being sold to foreign countries seeking agricultural lands to feed their growing populations.
12 March 2010 - 1:00pm
The Guardian U.K.

Water Diversion Plan Irks Northern Californians

A plan to divert water from Northern California to the state's agricultural heart in the drought-stricken Central Valley has residents and officials on the offensive.
13 February 2010 - 1:00pm
San Francisco Chronicle
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How We Eat May Be Biggest Impact of Urbanization on Nature

This post from The Nature Conservancy examines the impact of urbanization on nature and finds that our rising food needs will be one of the most important implications.
3 February 2010 - 8:00am
The Nature Conservancy

Fish: the Future of Urban Farming

Cityscape Farms has developed a new technique for farming fish along with vegetables in combined urban food systems that allows them to farm in developed areas.
29 January 2010 - 10:00am
Good

The Nitty Gritty of Urban Agriculture

A university in British Columbia is opening a "biological pest control laboratory" to develop strategies for small and urban farms to control pests through microbe- and insect-based systems.
26 January 2010 - 7:00am
The Vancouver Sun

Small Farming: It Takes A Village

Local food and small farming are part of a growing food trend in the U.S. But, as Steph Larsen writes, the trend is going to need more infrastructure down the supply chain to sustain itself
7 January 2010 - 9:00am
Grist

NASA Says Agriculture Is Draining Groundwater in California

NASA satellite imagery reveals that two of California's main groundwater sources are being rapidly depleted by agriculture and exurban development.
6 January 2010 - 8:00am
The Christian Science Monitor

The Planetizen News Brief - 12/31/09


4:31 minutes (4.14 MB)

Population growth slows in the U.S., air quality rules challenge density in California, and farmers look at Detroit as a new agricultural center -- all on this week's Planetizen News Brief, airing weekly on "Smart City". Read, listen or download.

31 December 2009 - 5:00am
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Ag Secretary Concerned Over Farms-to-Forests Conversion

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered the revision of a forecasting model related to congressional climate legislation that makes the conversion of farmland to forests more lucrative than producing food.
30 December 2009 - 8:00am
The Washington Times
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A Farm Future for Detroit?

Agricultural investors are buying up abandoned and empty land in Detroit -- making a big wager on the future of the city as a farm town.
30 December 2009 - 7:00am
Los Angeles Times

Thirsting in America's Fruit Basket

To protect the endangered Delta Smelt fish, pumping of water from California's Sacramento Delta has been drastically cut back. Add in the state's three-year-long drought, and the result is a major problem for the state's people and farmers.
28 October 2009 - 5:00am
The Economist

The Real Inconvenient Truth: Global Land Use

Global warming is a problem, says climate scientist Jonathan Foley, but it's not the only one. The other major problem facing the global environment is a pattern of land use for agriculture that is grossly unsustainable.
23 October 2009 - 9:00am
Yale Environment 360

California Legislators Pushing For Resolution to Water Crisis

Legislators in California are forming a special session to try to tackle the state's crippling water woes. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping they can hammer out a deal within the week.
15 October 2009 - 7:00am
The New York Times

Watching Where the Water Goes

Monitoring how much water is diverted from rivers and pumped from wells is notoriously difficult. But now, researchers have developed a new way to track usage.
15 September 2009 - 8:00am
The Washington Post

Is the Local Food Movement Misguided?

Eating local is in vogue, as the environmental impacts of industrialized agriculture surface. But is eating local really the right response? One author says maybe not.
6 September 2009 - 9:00am
Forbes
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Heart of California's Agriculture on Life-Support

Water restrictions on farms in the state have atrophied jobs in the fertile Central Valley, giving communities some of the highest rates of unemployment in the state. As jobs dry up, the need for aid is surpassing what's there to give.
3 September 2009 - 9:00am
The Wall Street Journal

Inside Havana's Urban Farms

This video from the BBC looks inside some of the 200 urban farms that provide vegetables for Havana and the rest of Cuba.
29 August 2009 - 5:00am
BBC

Measuring Environmental Impacts With the 'Water Footprint'

A Dutch hydrological engineer has developed a new way to measure the environmental impact of humans: the "water footprint".
28 August 2009 - 7:00am
Der Spiegel

Toilet to Tap to Farm

Farmers in the Monterey Bay area of California have been feeding their artichoke plants with recycled urban wastewater. And they've been doing it safely for years.
27 August 2009 - 5:00am
Miller-McCune
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