Touch the Soil News #1295 (Feature photo – The Rural People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) The Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the other side of the world in Africa. Its 92 million people are hanging on to an emerging economy that is compromised by its…
Touch the Soil News #1294 (Feature photo – Junk Food – Public Domain) While we all know that healthier diets are linked to better physical health, a new study takes a look at the links to mental and psychological well-being. Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) takes a look at a new study that finds links to junk…
Touch the Soil News #1293 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Goldlocki) While controlled indoor vertical agriculture is not a new concept, it has reached the imagination of several Russian entrepreneurs that want to build automated vertical greenhouses for locations around the world. The plan is to not only provide…
Touch the Soil News #1292 (Feature photo – Soybeans – Public Domain) The largest U.S. soybean customer is China. The trade wars constricted that trade to a point where U.S. soybean stockpiles began growing, prices declined and Midwest farm bankruptcies began rising. With recent trade tensions going down with China, soybean sales to China have…
Touch the Soil News #1291 (Feature photo – A Field of GMO Corn – Public Domain) Now that GMO labeling has finally reached the food products on the shelves, the new labels are not forthcoming in their full disclosures. Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us some of the early news about reactions to the new GMO…
Touch the Soil News #1290 (Feature photo – The World’s Nations Supporting the FAO – By Alinor at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18346607) According to the latest report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the future of food is not a system prone to compromise eco-systems, food security, land,…
Touch the Soil News #1289 (Feature photo – Tilapia – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) AgFunder News recently highlighted a new startup called BioFishency. BioFishency builds water treatment appliances that eliminate ammonia buildup and oxygenate the water. This substantially reduces the amount of water needed to farm fish. It improves the health of fish and potentially…
Touch the Soil News #1288 (Feature photo – Chickens – CCA SA 2.0) A throwback to 2009, the film called Mad City Chickens is a good reminder of how people can change the food system – one home at a time. Now the full movie is available online for the first time. It is lighthearted…
Touch the Soil News #1287 (Feature photo – Local Farmers – Public Domain) An interesting article showed up in the U.S. News and World Report about growing food in cities. It is one of the most in-depth articles about food security for cities ever to hit mainstream media. What makes cities important is that there…
Touch the Soil News #1286 (Feature photo – Farmland Grabbing Injustices – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Wild news about foreign corporations having 999 year leases on farmland that may have been taken illegally to violence against former peasant owners are not going away. In fact, activism is growing with increased illumination of wrongdoing by local…
