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===== The Powerful Potential Of Tiny Conservation Plots ===== | |||
[https://www.noemamag.com/the-powerful-potential-of-tiny-conservation-plots/?utm_source=noemalinkedin&utm_medium=noemasocial by JOANNA THOMPSON 27/8/24 NOEMA] | |||
For a few seconds, it’s like a scene from a movie: A gentle breeze rustles rows of garlic and carrot plants, tickling my shins. Early summer sun streams through the canopy overhead, leaves throw shade across the nearby squash. | |||
===== Eleven children worked on Iowa pork plant’s ‘kill floor’, US labor officials say ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/child-labor-iowa-pork-plant by Jessica Glenza 3/12/24 The Guardian] | |||
Nearly a dozen children were working shifts cleaning meat processing equipment used at an Iowa pork plant’s so-called kill floor over a four-year period, the US Department of Labor announced. | |||
=====Organic farming is rarely enough===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10519 by Natasha Gilbert 25/4/12 nature] | |||
Conventional agriculture gives higher yields under most conditions. | |||
=====Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97695-5 by Stefanie Christmann 14/9/21 scientific reports] | |||
Low- and middle-income countries cannot afford reward-based land sparing for wildflower strips to combat pollinator decline. Two small-grant projects assessed, if an opportunity-cost saving land-sharing approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators, can provide a method-inherent incentive to motivate farmers to protect pollinators without external rewards. | |||
=====Aquaculture Critical for Feeding the World in a Changing Climate===== | =====Aquaculture Critical for Feeding the World in a Changing Climate===== | ||
[https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/aquaculture-food-world-changing-climate/ by Robert Jones 25/1/22 The Conservancy] | [https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/aquaculture-food-world-changing-climate/ by Robert Jones 25/1/22 The Conservancy] | ||
