Oct 07
Source: YouTube
Tags: agriculture, desert, Environment
Sep 09
Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years as 30 per cent of the country’s grain lies in waterlogged or sodden ground. Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is expected to give the go-ahead today for farmers to salvage what is left of their crops by using heavy machinery on wet fields.
European Union rules ban farmers from using combine harvesters on wet land to protect soil quality. Those who flout the ban can be prosecuted. The exemption is expected to last for about three weeks.
Tags: agriculture, crops, Environment, farmers, Food, Food Prices, Grain, U.K., wheat
Sep 05
· No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation
· Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says Castro
Friday September 5 2008
Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the impoverished Caribbean nation, said President Rene Preval. A fourth storm, Ike, was gathering force in the Atlantic and could strike next week.
More than 120 people have died, thousands are homeless and agriculture and transport networks have been washed away, prompting calls for emergency international aid.
“There are a lot of people who have been on top of the roofs of their homes over 24 hours now,” the interior minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, told Reuters. “They have no water, no food and we can’t even help them.”
Tags: agriculture, catastrophe, Chaos, Cuba, Disaster, Environment, flood, Food, Haiti, Storm, U.N., U.S., water
Aug 21
Wastewater is most commonly used to produce vegetables and cereals (especially rice), according to this and other IWMI reports, raising concerns about health risks for consumers, particularly of vegetables that are consumed uncooked.
As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) indicates that most of those studied (80 percent) are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture.
In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams.
Tags: agriculture, Burkina Faso, China, Environment, farmers, farmland, Food, Ghana, Health, India, rice, sewage, vegetables, Vietnam, water, WHO
Mar 14
PARIS (Reuters) - Prices of grain and milk-based food products have surged in France in recent months due to booming commodities prices, a French consumer group said in a report.
A monitoring of over 1,000 products between the end of November and early January in five supermarkets showed that yoghurt, milk and pasta had most suffered from the surge in many agricultural commodities that started last year.
“They’re not rising, they’ve caught fire,” monthly 60 Millions de Consommateurs said in its March report, circulated ahead of publication on Tuesday.
“Everywhere since the start of the year, spaghetti, yoghurt, camembert cheeses, have seen staggering rises in prices,” it said, stressing that the surge had hit all types of products, famous brands as well as supermarket own-brands. Continue reading »
Tags: agriculture, Commodities, Consumer Affairs, Food Prices, Inflation, Luc Chatel, Sybille de La Hamaide
