Agriculture
Yogic farming: Hippy culture or the answer to global famine and land degradation?
Yogic farming is said to increase yields and boost the quality of the crops being grown across India – could it be an effective solution to land degradation and rising demand for food?
Rio+20 Business Focus: Yogic agriculture reaps benefits in India
Tasamin Ramsey of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University explains what ‘Yogic farming’ is and how it is reaping rewards for communities in India.
Rio+20 Business Focus: IUCN join with Nokia to unleash power of farmer’s co-ops in China
Lap Li from IUCN China explains how the group have been working with phone company Nokia to help support farmers’ cooperatives and connect remote farmers to agricultural markets.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Starbucks initiative in Mexico aims to make coffee greener
As part of our Rio+20 series focused on business and sustainable development we examine the role Climate Smart Agriculture will play in ensuring sustainable development.
Green Olympics: London offers a local alternative to the carbon intensive food system
As Hackney based Growing Communities gets ready to support a second round to fruit and veg box start-ups across the UK, RTCC visits one of the projects first successes to learn more about community growing.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Kenya, Madagascar and Cameroon focus on preserving life-giving African cherry tree
How the conservation and sustainable use of Prunus africana is improving the lives of small-scale farmers in Africa.
Bonn 2012: UNCCD calls for agriculture to be central to Rio+20
Talking to RTCC at the Bonn Climate Talks, UNCCD’s Sergio Bonilla calls for agriculture, land and soil to be central to talks both under the UNFCCC and at Rio this June.
UK Drought – What will it mean?
As 17 more counties are considered to be in drought conditions in the UK, RTCC takes a look at the causes of the drought and what it could mean for you.
New study recommends seven steps to sustainable farming
New report outlines seven measures that will enable world to feed population of 9 billion by 2050 while reducing agricultural carbon emissions
Photo of the week #11: Land management in Vietnam
This week’s photo of the week looks at the threat to agricultural production from climate change in Vietnam.
UN Water Report: Climate change to exacerbate water stress
New report highlights acute water shortages developing world could face as climate changes over next three decades.
New Horn of Africa drought warning
Experts say region set for more misery after worst drought in six decades hit last year.
Meet the techno-greens
While many of the goals and good intentions of the green movement have not changed, technology has allowed the methods to advance significantly, writes Dr Darren Hughes.
Mapping water footprints across the globe
New research, mapping global flows of water consumption, aims to highlight the global approach needed when adapting sustainable national water footprints.
Tea crops next in the firing line for climate change
UN food agency formulates strategy to protect supply of crop
Is climate change the real ticking time bomb in North Korea?
Already crippled by food and energy shortages, Kim Jong-un will also inherit increasing pressure from climate change on the country’s food supply.
Feeding the world by 2050 will mean limiting demand
Demand must be tackled as well as supply to feed the growing population living in a resource strapped world in 2050, the Soil Association’s Policy Director told the Environmental Audit Committee.
Off the menu: The climate change food crises
Climate change will threaten a number of crops including coffee, chocolate and rice, according to a number of agricultural research institutes