Intensive Farming

High steaks: the new craze for old cow

Edit The Guardian 20 Jun 2016

British steak obsessives are currently raving about Basque beef. Reared to an ancient 18 years old, this is beef’s equivalent of mutton with an extraordinary flavour to match. By now, you probably think you know where you are with steak ... Twitter ... That a region with only one native cattle breed, Pirenaica, has continued – in the face of global intensive farming – to cultivate such a specialist product, is testament to that obsessiion out....

On Day to Combat Desertification, UN calls for action to restore land resources (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016

In another message to mark the Day, Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), underscored that desertification is a threat to both arid and non-arid regions, where land over-exploitation, including intensive farming, forest exploitation for fuel and timber and overgrazing have turned fertile soils into sterile land....

On Day to Combat Desertification, UN calls for action to restore land resources

Edit United Nations 17 Jun 2016

In another message to mark the Day, Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), underscored that desertification is a threat to both arid and non-arid regions, where land over-exploitation, including intensive farming, forest exploitation for fuel and timber and overgrazing have turned fertile soils into sterile land....

Claim bigger hen house will cut smell

Edit Otago Daily Times 14 Jun 2016

A Roxburgh poultry farm's plans to expand and modernise its operation will improve bird health and cut flies and odour, its owner says ... Its current shed holds 12,000 hens ... "The best bird health makes me money through production.'' ... Resource consent is required as the site is located 900m from Roxburgh, whereas the district plan requires intensive farming to be at least 2km from urban areas ... ....

Brexit endangers Britain’s bees says Friends of the Earth (Friends of the Earth Trust/Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jun 2016

Some rare bee species are becoming more dependent on sites protected by EU laws because they struggle to survive in the surrounding intensively farmed countryside ... · On 30 May Farming Minister George Eustice said Brexit would free UK from 'spirit-crushing' green directives....

How the ‘animal internet’ sheds light on the secrets of migration

Edit The Observer 12 Jun 2016

Aristotle thought the mysterious silver eel emerged from the earth fully formed ... “Technology is driving a revolution ... He points to overgrazing and desertification in Africa’s Sahel, which is harming populations of songbirds; the slaughter of birds passing over the Mediterranean; the loss of elk migratory routes to development in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem; and threats to African wildlife as intensive farming spreads ... ....

‘Pristine’ landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years due to human activity (University of Oxford)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016

(Source. University of Oxford) ... An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of years ... Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World ... (noodl....

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Kenya Port Authority at Lamu Island, Kenya, 29 March 2009

The race to become East Africa's biggest port

Edit BBC News 07 Jun 2016

Kenya and Tanzania have long competed to have the most important port in East Africa and their rivalry is about to become more intense as they compete for the region's business, writes Neil Ford ... Both ports will be larger than any other port in sub-Saharan Africa if completed as planned. They will also be at the centre of much bigger developments, with industrial zones being laid out and intensive farming being proposed ... ....

'Pristine' landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years (University of Oxford)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016

(Source. University of Oxford). An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years details how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of years ... Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World ... (noodl. 33979806) ....

‘Pristine’ landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years due to human activity (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016

(Source. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV). June 06, 2016 ... Humans have had an impact on ecological systems for several thousands years - for example through hunting, agriculture ... [more] ... Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World ... (noodl....

A switch to ecological farming will benefit health and environment – report

Edit The Guardian 02 Jun 2016

A new approach to farming is needed to safeguard human health and avoid rising air and water pollution, high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, a group of 20 leading agronomists, health, nutrition and social scientists concluded ... But it argues that food supplies would not be greatly affected by a change to a more diverse farming system ... The panel identifies three disastrous consequences of intensive farming....

EU referendum: Farmers split on the future

Edit BBC News 01 Jun 2016

In 2014, the most recent year with confirmed figures, UK farms received £3.19bn ... Mark Williams runs a farm perched on steep slopes near Welshpool in Wales with a spectacular view over the Severn Valley ... On his hill farm, Mark Williams has an answer to that ... About 24,000 farm workers have come from the rest of the EU and at harvest-time the most labour-intensive farms - cultivating fruit and veg - require far more....

Port Botany may fit the bill for superliners

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 Jun 2016

LETTERS ... Botany Bay is a cultural, beach-side and recreational attraction in its own right ... Provided agreement can be reached with one of the container companies, and with a realistic shuttle service to and from the CBD, this may be a viable alternative ... I am sure the declining consumption of milk is very concerning for the dairy industry but what concerns me most is the inherent cruelty of intensive farming practices ... Abbott and Albo ... ....

What intensive farming means -- for the animals and for the environment. (BBC Countryfile)

Biointensive mini-farming: grow more food in less space

Intensive Dairy Farming - Is this the way to do it? (BBC Countryfile)

Live Fast Die Young - the life of a meat chicken

SPIN Small Plot Intensive Farming class at Habitat for Humanity Kinship Urban Farm

Anti Intensive Farming

The Market Gardener with Jean-Martin Fortier, Part 3 Bio-Intensive Farming

FARMER TO FARMER: Bio-Intensive tools and soil w/ Jodi Roebuck