Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Agriculture is closely tied to hunger, health, economies, biodiversity, land 
justice, politics, and climate change. Grassroots organizations all over the 
world and some governments are rising to the demands of our time and pushing 
for fair, sustainable food production for all. For those who want to delve 
deeper into all these issues as they relate to agriculture, I've pulled 
together some of these sources. Just scratching the surface of course.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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National Geographic magazine "Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty" says:
   "Modern society has relieved us of the burden of growing, harvesting, even 
preparing our daily bread, in exchange for the burden of simply paying for 
it. Only when prices rise do we take notice. And the consequences of our 
inattention are profound."
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/cheap-food/bourne-text

Environmental Health Practitioner, Waste not want not, explores: "Where we 
get our food from, what we eat and how it gets from farm to plate is 
exercising policy makers and the debate is set to impact on health, food 
safety, the economy, climate change and sustainability."
http://www.cieh.org/ehp/ehp3.aspx?id=16966


http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/
http://www.cornucopia.org/
http://www.iatp.org/
http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/eatlocal/
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/local_food/
http://www.farmtotablenm.org/
http://www.acresusa.com/magazines/magazine.htm
http://www.fao.org/
http://sustainableagriculture.net/
http://www.postcarbon.org/report/41306-the-food-and-farming-transition-toward
http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/latest/2009/defra-0924.htm
http://www.srfood.org/
http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/
http://www.grain.org/front/
http://farmlandgrab.org/
http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/node/367
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/fair-food-miles
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g917718511
http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2009/we-can-feed-the-planet-and-save-the-world
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/?q=node/view/526
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/agriculture-and-climate-change
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/presslist.php/101/sdc-stop-decline-in-uk-food-production
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai781e/ai781e00.pdf
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6126
http://www.ippr.org/members/download.asp?f=%2Fecomm%2Ffiles%2Fjust%5Fdesserts%2Epdf
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/694/
http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/
http://www.farmandfoodproject.org/
http://www.lavidalocavore.org/