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Steph: On my 2nd to last day picking olives I was in Qaryut again with the same family I had spent a week with (Salimon and Aziz who I wrote about in a previous post). In the morning the border police and army once again pulled their jeeps and trucks up to the settlement entry road and stood by, supposedly "protecting" us from confrontations with settlers. Within an hour 2 settler men showed up and one came down into the grove and yelled at us, "Go away, you're stealing! This is God's land! Go away!" The Palestinians continued to pick olives while the international and Israeli volunteers walked between them and him and said "No, you go away, you're tresspassing." His friend who had joined the soldiers and police up the hill called for him to come back, and he left. I watched them all talk and joke for a bit, before I returned to picking. Within 20 minutes the army decided that we were no longer allowed to pick olives so close to the settlement (we had picked closer in the days before), and forced us to leave. We negotiated for a bit and in that time were able to get a few more trees done, but eventually had to move further down the hill, out of their view. It's clear from our experience over the previous week that had the settlers not shown up to cause a problem, we wouldn't have had to leave. Here the army works for the illegal settlers, and their commitment to May's High Court ruling guarranteeing Palestinians the right to access their land and be free from violence, is merely minimal if at all enforced.


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Sharefa Khaled is a farmer from Jause village near Kalkelia city aqnd she has some hens and ducks which she use them to produce the eggs and she sale it by use her donkey in the village and the people like to by her eggs because it has a good quality and to help her because she lives alone in her house and no body look after her and she is very happy with her job and she says that it's better than sitting at home and ask the people for money!


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The Aspelunds began thinking about transitioning their farm over to organic farming primarily for environmental reasons. As they learned more about organics and became involved in local feedlot issues, they added livestock. They raise their livestock free-range and humanely. Choosing a combination of livestock and trees to raise on their farm, Nancy says, "I hoped to raise awareness in our area of sustainable agriculture, too, and maybe show what it is all about...


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زينب خليل عبد الله مزارعة من قرية بيت فوريك تملك أرضا مزروعة بأشجار التين من النوع الخضاري و اللذي يلاحظ من إسمه أنه أخضر اللون بالإضافة لصغر حجم ثماره و حلاوة طعمها بالمقارنة مع أنواع التين الأخرى حيث تبيع إنتاجها بالتوصية حيث يقوم الناس بطلب كميات معينة من إنتاجها في موسم التين وهو بين أشهر مايو و أغسطس حيث تتوجه إلى أرضها في الصباح و تقوم بعملية القطاف و فق المطلوب وذلك أنها لو قطفت ثمارا بدون طلب قد لا يشتريها أحد و هي ستتلف حتما في هذه الحالة لذا هي باقية على هذه الطريقة منذ سنين و هي تقول ان شجرة الزيتون شجرة مباركة و معطاءة لكن بقدر ما تقدمه لها من العناية ايضا


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Panama is facing a major challenge in the Panama Canal Watershed. Next to the backdrop of gigantic, modern cargo ships transiting the Canal, lies an area of extreme poverty, where much of the population scrapes a meager living off small farms. The contrast between the modern, prosperous Panama and the underprivileged, poor one underscores the country’s dual economy.

Like many people in the Canal Watershed, Yadira Martinez and her family live in a shack with earthen floors and a thatched roof. They are often unable to meet basic needs, such as adequate nutrition. USAID’s sustainable agriculture programs are reaching out to people like Yadira to teach them more effective agricultural techniques. The first thing she mentioned about the program’s impact was that better crop yields are helping her daughters, who were underweight, overcome undernourishment. “My daughters showed significant weight gain at their last visit to the doctor,” said the 21-year old mother, with visible relief. Her mother, Beatriz Rodriguez, said, “We did not have money to buy tomatoes, green beans, corn, and the like. So we survived without them. Now, Yadira plants and harvests these crops.” Yadira also sells part of her harvests to neighbors who value organically grown crops.


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Harbe Ayesh 40 years old is a sweets maker from Nablus and he make a special kind of sweets that you can't fined it but just in his shop in the old city of Nablus it's a popular sweet called halawa wa zalabyia it's a special kind of bread makes with the olives oil and the coconut which cooked with a lot of sugar and it's a cheap sweet and the people comes to Nablus specially to eat it and he make it since he was 10 years old by helping his father to prepare it and sale for the people and he says that it's one of our culture as the people of Nablus from thousands of years and we must keep it and I will teach my sons this job be said there main jobs after they finish the universities and I am sure that they will keep it after me!


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محمد علي عبد الجبار من قرية عزون و البالغ من العمر (36) عاما يملك أرضا مزروعة بالباذنجان و البطاطا و هما من أهم أنواع الخضار اللتي تنمو في فلسطين بالإضافة إلى الطماطم
و يبيع محمد منتوجاته في مدينة نابلس عبر نقلها بواسطة شاحنة كبيرة تضع حمولتها في مكان يدعى حسبة الخضار في نابلس حيث يشتريها التجار الكبار و يوزعونها بدورهم على المحلات التجارية و الباعة المتنقلين حيث تصل إلى المواطنين بأسعار مناسبة و في متناول الجميع


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صديقه محمود قاسم 44 عاما من قرية بيت فوريك القريبة من نابلس وهي مزارعة زوجة مزارع حيث تمتلك و زوجها حسين أرضا مزروعة بالتين و الصبر حيث تساعد زوجها في الكثير من الأعمال كمساعدته في دهن التين بزيت الزيتون و كذلك في جني ثمار التين و الصبر و تعبئتها لأخذها و بيعها في سوق المدينة بسعر مرتفع عنه في القرية و ذلك لإمتلاك المزارعين في تلك المنطقة محاصيل متشابهة وخاصة التين و الزيتون أما في المدينة فهم يفتقرون هذه المحاصيل اللتي يفضلونها لطعمها الحلو و كذلك لفوائدها العظيمة فشجرة التين شجرة مباركة حيث أقسم بها الله عز وجل و سميت سورة التين و الزيتون بإسمها لكنهم يعانون الأمرين عند المرور بحاجز بيت فوريك العسكري الجاثم على صدر القرية منذ بداية إنتفاضة الأقصى المباركة لكنهم رغم ذلك صامدون حتى لو وضعوا ألف حاجزعلى الطريق


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East of Adin Ranch owners Ken and Kirsten Thompson raise grass-fed American Buffalo (bison) on their ranch located in northeast California. They apply a holistic, stress-free approach to management. Bison graze native range grasses in the spring while winter hay is growing, harvested, and stored. Summer finds bison grazing partly irrigated, partly natural fields along spring-fed streams.


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News article copied from September 10, 2002 of "LIETUVIU BALSAS" (The Voice of the Lithuanians).

Part of the American group at the First Field Day of Auksuciai Farm, in front of recently constructed storage barn (gift of Alexander Wessey-Vasiliauskas).


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From the local harvest website:
Earthly Edibles is a new CSA in Northeast Texas. Depending on upcoming membership will determine delivery into the Dallas Metro Atea.


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شادي محسن مزارع من قرية قوسين القريبة من مدينة نابلس متزوج ولدية خمس أبناء , يملك حقل يقوم بزرعه ببعض الخضروات كالجزر والبطاطا ويساعده في أعمال الحرث والقطف أولاده الذين كما قال لنا شادي انه قد رباهم على حب الأرض فتراهم يحرصون عليها كأولادهم , لكن يقول لنا شادي في بعض الأحيان نتعرص لمضايقات من قبل المستوطين ,لكن بمساعده بعض المتطوعين الأجانب فاننا نحاول أبعادهم عن اراضينا والحيال دون تخريب محصولنا وأرضنا


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While RecipeSource may be one of the newest recipe sites on the Internet, we're also one of the oldest. Our collection was started in 1993 by Jennifer Snider when she discovered the wonders of Usenet newsgroups & Internet mailing lists as a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She started saving recipes posted to those sources and soon amassed thousands of recipes. When her friends found out about the collection, we encouraged her to put them on the web, and she agreed, provided we helped her. After several months of hard work, the recipes first appeared on the web in 1995 as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes. From our start with around 10,000 recipes we've grown the collection to 7 times that size, and had our pages accessed millions of times from around the world. Thanks to our popularity, we've outgrown our original home, so we've moved the collection here to RecipeSource.com, where we hope it will continue to grow, while providing better response time and a better search engine than our old site.

The current RecipeSource Team is:

- Jennifer Snider Coopersmith
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- Elaine Chao

Please remember these are all volunteers, donating their spare time to the project.


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Elizabeth Parnell didn't even discover her passion for goat cheese until she traveled to Europe in the late 1980s. Up until then she had been an administrative assistant, raised two children and begun a career as a real estate broker.


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Maher Abu- Saleh is a father of five sons and two daughters, he work as a farmer. Abu- Saleh many olive and lemon lands, he love his lands too much. He never use chemical fertilizers, he only use natural ones, because he believes that chemicals do decrease the production of the crops. Two of his sons are students in the university, and the rest are in the school. He says always "land is our nationality".


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You can almost taste the resourcefulness and creative problem solving here at Village Acres, nestled among the green Allegheny hills of Mifflintown, Pennsylvania. Roy Brubaker, the owner and manager of the farm, is the one behind many of these ideas. But he’s not alone. This year there are 11 people helping with the farm, including the Brubaker family and six interns. Together they market 30 acres of produce, employ a wide variety of chemical-free agricultural techniques, and eat three meals a day together.


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We have both a retail and wholesale market for the worms in organic gardening, composting and bait. Our worms are kept in king-size wooden bins. Each holds about 100,000 of the critters. At any one time we have literally millions of worms, actively churning out rich sweet compost.

Who buys our worms? Home gardeners, fishermen, nurseries and bait distributors are our best customers. We even sell to state agencies and schools. The state uses the worms for vermicomposting, and schools use them for various educational projects.


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Sam believes that CSA farming is the model for the future, especially in areas that are rapidly suburbanizing. As the large conventional farms are lost to development, Sam feels that if agriculture is to survive in the area, it will be in the form of small, diversified farms that are ecologically responsible, use direct marketing, and operate with the support of their communities.


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I wanted to study Agricultural science - I wanted to feed the world.

I subsequently worked for seven years in remote parts of Africa and Madagascar. The success of the biological control project that I worked on in Madagascar is documented in 'Reclaiming lost provinces: A century of weed biological control in Queensland' (Queensland Dept of Natural Resources and Mines, 2005).

During the 1990s, I published in Australian and international scientific journals and completed a PhD.

During the 1990s, I published over a dozen scientific papers in International and Australian scientific journals and 2 book chapters including on weed biological control, insect and plant taxonomy, insect behavior and ecological risk-management

With the sugar industry I wrote the first commodity specific code of practice endorsed under the Queensland Environment Protection Act 1994 and coordinated development of the sugar industry’s first best management practice manual.

More recently I have written and published several critical reviews on environmental issues including the state of the Murray-Darling river system, Australian agriculture, Environmentalism in Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef.

Over the last two years as a columnist for NSW rural weekly The Land, and more recently e-journal On Line Opinion, and as an occasional opinion writer for the Age, Herald Sun, Courier Mail and The Australian I have had over 60 pieces published on environmental and food-related issues including global warming, bushfires, cyclones, salinity and whaling. I also write for the IPA Review and have published in Quadrant magazine.

I have always been fascinated by the natural environment and how the environment can be sustainably farmed and harvested for food. I am also interested in wild lands and wildlife and how they can be best protected.

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Leslie Radford, "The Winter Harvest of the South Central Farmers", December 20, 2006:

The afternoon is more of the same, albeit a little faster--the carrot tops are easier to spot among the unwanted grasses, and the ground is softer. Stefanie and her father slowly overtake me one row over. Stefanie confides with a mischievous grin that she plans on being a councilmember and unseating Perry. But her dad and I can only look at each other, silent across the language barrier. "Aqui estamos," he offers. "Y no nos vamos," I finish the Farmers' now famous chant. We begin a litany of Farm chants until they move out of range. A couple of rows over, four-year-old Sandra practices her numbers. "Eight, nine, ten," she concludes. "Eleven," I add. She looks up, surprised, and then giggles and launches into a count to twenty for me. Her mom looks up and beams.


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From his website: Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, a New York Times bestseller. His previous books are: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (2001); A Place of My Own (1997); and Second Nature (1991). A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper's Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2004); Best American Essays (1990 and 2003) and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer, and their son, Isaac. To contact him, email: inquiries@michaelpollan.com.


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The Ioergers’ land has been in their family for over 150 years, with Lowell, Janet and crew farming it for the past twenty-five. Many able-bodied Ioergers work together to keep this farm rolling. While everyone pitches in wherever help is needed, each family member has a specialty.


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Bill and Mary Beaman and their youngest son, Jeff, shown here, run Beamans' Grazier Farms near Lenox, Iowa. They want to provide the option of local identify-preserved meats in the supermarket and restaurants. The Beaman’s farm is one of 42 small family farms from Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin that comprise Wholesome Harvest.


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Mohammad Daragme is a farmer from Salfeet, he is 69 years old, and he own many large lands of olives in his village. He faced many problems from Israeli soldiers. He has children and he depends on the production of the land to feed them.

I asked him about if he grows other kinds of plants, he said “I have a big land near my house; I had grew lemon trees and many kinds of vegetables every year".

Then I asked him if he use chemicals with his trees and he told me "I use it because it increases the production".

And when I asked him about if he care about the new ways of agriculture, he said “when I want any help or directions I will consult Salfeert's agriculture committee".

After that I asked him who buy is crops? he answered me" my family consume a little of the crop then I sell the rest to the market".

And about if his family enjoys his work as a farmer, he said “yes my family helps me and they love the land as I do, it means for us the nationality and the home. These lands were related to my father in the past, so I will not leave it for the enemy. the land is my wife , my son , my life"

finally I asked I’m I f he want to add any thing , e said " I want to say it is not important to have a tree , the most important is how to take care of it".


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At White Haven Farm in Chebanse, Illinois, farmer Ryan Wolfe raises grass: horseshoe grass, rye grass, white and red clover, sorghum and sudangrass. Why raise grass in a state known for its millions of acres of corn and soybeans? Ryan's grass feeds a healthy herd of 105 milking cows and about 100 young stock.


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A visit to O'Toole Herb Farm is like stepping onto an oasis of serenity and fragrance. From the main herb garden ringed by large native trees to the rocking chairs on the front porch of their airy retail shop, visitors are invited to slow down their pace a bit, sort through the unique selection of plants and gifts, and enjoy the fanciful flight of butterflies.


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Hedgehog Hill is a small farm
nestled in the foothills of Western Maine. We offer a large variety of plants, as well as herbs and everlastings. In the shop, there are several rooms filled with herbal wreaths, tables with
dried flower arrangements,
decorated baskets, bouquets,
and swags. A delectable selection of herbal teas, jams and jellies,
herbal vinegars and honeys,
and culinary herbs will tickle your palate.


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Hassan Al Afurri from Zawata village is a lorry driver who use his lorry to help the farmers to move there products from there lands to the markets and some times to move the died trees and some grasses and by that he get his money and the farmers like to use him because he do his work good! And he is funny too and the people like to hear his jokes and he like his lorry and his work too much!


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Bill, who is the certification chairman for the Florida Organic Growers, began raising fruit and vegetables organically on this land in 1978. Since that time, his garden has been swallowed up by the city of Sarasota. Yet he says, "I don't consider being in this location any more stressful than being in the country. It's all a state of mind."


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Prof. Patrick Lavelle (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; IRD) and Dr. Bikram K. Senapati (Sambalpur University, India) worked in collaboration with plantation managers from Parry Agro-Industries Ltd. In this effort, tea prunings, high quality organic matter, and vermicultured earthworms were applied in trenches between tea rows in order to evaluate effects on tea yields. Improvements in structural and biological properties of soils were expected to produce higher tea yields.

PatrickLavelle, BikramK.Senapati, DanBennack, GeorgeBrown, SallyBunning, MariangelaHungriaDaCunha


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سعيد خاروف مواطن من قرية زواتا القريبة من نابلس يملك متجر لبيع المخلالات في القرية حيث يقوم بإنتاجها منزلياً ثم يقوم ببيعها لسوق القرية والقرى المجاوره بالإضافة لسوق المدينة , يقول لنا سعيد أن هذه المنتجات تلقى رواجاً أكبر في المناسبات خصوصاً في شهر رمضان المبارك حيث يزداد الطلب عليها بشكل كبير مما يساعدني على القدره على توفير الأموال اللازمة لهذا الشهر المبارك حيث يستلزم مصاريف كثيره يجب تلبيتها للعائله


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This week is the beginning of October, which I associate with the frosty mornings, Macintosh apples, and fiery trees of Northern New England. Here in Maryland, where the leaves are still green, late summer flowers are in bloom, and afternoon temperatures at the farm rarely fall below 75 degrees, it's hard for me to remember the seasons are changing. There are a few weeks left of picking summer vegetables like tomatoes, peppers and basil. Fall crops like broccoli, kale and beets are coming along quickly, and it won't be long before lettuce and carrots grace our plates again.


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Our Company Pangea Tea Co. - Pink Tea Room represented by Mr. and Mrs. Krivلnek, has the pleasure to present a catalogue of tea bags that is intended to satisfy your needs within your trade network.

And now a few words about the company's history: The company was founded in 1992 by Mr. Krivلnek and his wife. Their business activities resulted in introducing high-quality brands of tea at reasonable prices into the Czech tea market. The company' philosophy is to satisfy all requirements of business partners. We are prepared to adjust the prices after mutual agreement (e.g. volume discounts etc.). Mr. Krivلnek is considered as a renowned specialist in the tea business. His knowledge of different brands of fine tea is so immense that several times in the past he was invited to give a talk on various TV features where his experience was highly appreciated. His tea room is a place of pinformal meetings at which talks and lectures on tea, based on Mr. Krivلnek's own travel experiences are regularly held. Mr. Krivلnek visited India, Sri Lanka and China where he established personal business contacts with the local tea companies. That is the reason why our company is able to offer top-quality brands of fine tea at great prices. In 1998 the company was awarded the highest degree of evaluation by the Gurmلn Journal.


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Vandana Shiva comes from a farming community and has written many books as an activist. She bases her teachings on Western reductionist science, broader science and vedic texts.

She has been connected with tea as a consumer and possibly her family were growers.

She has founded several orgs.

One is Navadanya and on its home page she says:

Message from the founder

Vandana ShivaOver the past three decades I have tried to be change I want to see.

When I found that dominant science and technology served the interests of powerful, I left academics to found the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, a participatory, public interest research organisation.

When I found global corporations wanted to patent seeds, crops or life forms, I started Navdanya to protect biodiversity, defend farmers' rights and promote organic farming.

Navdanya/RFSTE's journey over the past two decades has taken us into creating markets for farmers and promoting tasty, healthy, high quality food for consumers. We have connected the seed to the kitchen, biodiversity to gastronomy. And now we have joined hands with Slow Food to celebrate the quality and cultural diversity of our food.

The seed has inspired us to spread the message of sustainability through Bija Vidyapeeth, which I started with Satish Kumar as a sister institution of the Schumaker College in the UK.

My journey on the road to ecological sustainability started with the Chipko movement in the 1970s when women in the region of the Himalayas protected forests by hugging trees.

For me, ecology and feminism have been inseparable. And Diverse Women for Diversity is one expression of combining women's rights and nature's rights, celebrating our cultural diversity and biological diversity.

The defence of nature's rights and people's rights have come together for me in Earth Democracy - the democracy of all life on earth, a living democracy which supports and is supported by living culture and living economies.

I am happy you have visited us on the web. We look forward to your visit to our farm, our cafe, our school. Let us together build an earth family. Let us in our diversity create an earth democracy.

THE SITE ALSO MENTIONS traditional 9 crops including tea.


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To India's Finance Minister
An Open Letter

By Vandana Shiva

02 July, 2004


Dear Shri Chidambaram ji,

You have announced a "bail-out" package for Indian farmers, thousands of whom have taken their lives in distress and hopelessness, by asking the banks in the commercial, cooperative and public sector to increase their rural lending by 30% at Rs. 1,04,500 crore. Asking banks to lend more is not the same as increasing public investment in agricultural research and extension, rural infrastructure and irrigation as promised in the Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance.

Asking banks to give more loans to solve the problem of suicides caused by indebtedness is like asking a neighbour to turn on their taps to solve the problem of a leaking water storage tank in your backyard. Firstly, you can't force your neighbour to turn on his tap. Secondly, even he did, it won't fix the leak in your tank. Processes that create structural and systemic indebtedness are leaks in the farmers income and livelihood security. Unless these leaks are fixed, more flow of credit will not bail out the farmer and suicides and dispossession will continue. Farmers income is like water in the tank. The new economic policies based on the paradigm of trade liberalization and deregulation of commerce has created a double leak and drain in farmers income.

Why are farmers committing suicide?

Farmers suicides are a result of indebtedness, and debt is a result of rising costs of agricultural inputs and falling prices of agricultural produce. Both the rising costs of production and decline in farm prices are intended outcomes of trade liberalization and economic reform policies driven by agribusiness corporations. Farmers suicides are therefore an inevitable outcome of an agricultural policy which favours corporate welfare and ignores farmers welfare.

The farmers who have committed suicide were driven to their tragic end by a threefold crisis caused by trade liberalization and globalisation policies, deregulation of inputs, imports and prices and the inevitable consequence in deepening debt.

I. Deregulation of Inputs

Deregulation of the input sector, the entry of seed MNC's and the creation of seed monopolies has increased the costs of inputs and the risks of crop failure. In 2002, farmers of Bihar lost Rs. 400 crore due to the failure of Monsanto's hybrid corn. Farmers of Andhra Pradesh and other States ran into losses of Rs. 100 crore due to the failure of Bt. Cotton. Seed supplied at Rs. 300 / kg by public sector farms costs Rs. 1600 / kg when bought from Monsanto. Inspite of the high costs, Monsanto's Bt. Cotton performed miserably in the first commercial planting in 2002. The deregulation of the input sector has allowed seed MNC's into Indian agriculture for the first time. In India's history, our seed security and sovereignty was based on the time tested and adapted farmers varieties which accounted for 80% of the seed supply and the varieties bred and tested in the public sector seed farms for our diverse agro climatic zones, appropriate to the socio-economic, conditions of the peasants, MNC's greedy for quick profits have been selling untested, ill adapted, high cost seeds which need high cost chemicals and intensive irrigation. This is a sure recipe for a debt trap.

Your "package" for farmers offers no relief to the farmers distress linked to seed insecurity and more frequent occurrences of crop failure due to introduction of untested seeds in a deregulated market. Drought is only a partial explanation for indebtedness and crop failure. The deregulated seeds untested for India's diverse soil and climatic conditions and rising costs of inputs are a major cause for crop failure and farm debt. This is why farm suicides are occurring in irrigated and rainforest areas, they are taking place in Punjab and U.P, not just in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. They are reported from tea gardens and sugarcane belts, from potato agricultural export zones and the cotton belt areas growing "high value" commercial crops. Farm suicides cannot be blamed on nature and the rain. They cannot be stopped by asking states to assist banks for formulating new "bankable investment project" like plantation and horticulture. Bhagwan Singh a prosperous farmer from Agra took his life when potato prices crashed to Rs. 40-100/quintal while costs of production were Rs. 250-300/quintal. The government fail to regulate the procurement price announced at Rs. 195/quintal.

Even in plantation and horticultural corps farmers suicides have started. Every crop, every ecosystem is affected. The crisis calls for radical reform not business as usual.

Your proposal to support organic farming can help because organic agriculture reduces the drain of farmers incomes for toxic agrochemicals. But your announcement of Rs. 12,700 crore subsidy for urea and DAP undermines the incentive to farmers to go organic. Even organic producers need just and fare prices to survive, and even they need public investment in research and extension and input support for organic fertilizers and ecological pest control. Bank loans cannot be a substitute for public policy and public supportive role to public policy.

You offer no budget commitments to rebuild seed security, the first link in the farmers livelihood and income security. More credit will not fix this leak of farmers scare and hard earned incomes for unreliable, and costly seeds. It will just increase the debt burden, and farmers distress. This crisis will deepen when corporations extract even more resources from resource poor farmers for royalty patents as a result of the implementation of the TRIPS agreement of WTO. Given that corporations like Ricetec patented the Indian Basmati, and Monsanto has patented Indian wheat, without TRIPs reform the future drain of farmers incomes will make agriculture totally unviable for Indian peasantry.

II. Deregulation of Imports

The second leak in the farmers income is the collapse in farm prices due to deregulated of trade, especially after the removal of quantitative restrictions. Removal of quantitative restrictions has led to depression of domestic prices of farm products due to the artificial lowering of international prices because of $ 400 billion of subsidies in rich countries, which is leading to dumping and depression of domestic prices through global price signals reaching domestic markets unattenuated through QR's. The level of dumping has increased since 1995 when the W.T.O cam into force, even though the proclaimed aim of W.T.O is to "reduce distortions in trade." While the full cost of U.S wheat in 2001 was $ 6.24/bushel, its export price is $3.5/bushel. In the case of soya bean, the cost was $6.98/bushel, the export price was $4.93/bushel. For maize, the full coast was $3.47/bushel, export price was $2.28/bushel. In the case of cotton, the cost was $0.9313/bushel. and the export price was $0.3968/bushel, a dumping of 57%. The cost of production of rice was $18.66/bushel and it was sold internationally at $14.55/bushel. From 1995 to 2001 dumping jumped from 23% to 44% in the case of wheat, 9% to 29% in the case of soya beans, 11% to 33% in the case of maize, from 17% to 57% in the case of cotton. Removing of QR's implies making the Indian peasant vulnerable to the distortion of international prices. Annual looses of farmers cross Rs. 1.2 trillion / year. The non-procurement by government at MSP levels has also led to a fall in farm prices and hence a fall in farm incomes.

On the basis of the fall in the prices of agricultural commodities, the annual losses Indian farmers are bearing are :

Crops Per Year
Oilseeds Rs. 25,000 crore
Potato Rs. 5,000 crore
Sugarcane Rs. 1,500 crore
Wheat Rs. 21,000 crore
Rice Rs. 27,000 crore
Milk Rs. 34,000 crore
Tea Rs. 2,100 crore
Spice ad Plantation Crops in Kerala Rs. 100 crore
Total Rs. 1,15,800 crore

This loss in incomes is more than what you are asking banks to lend. If farmers have no incomes, how will they pay back their loans?

It is in light of this devastating impact that in a petition to the Prime Minister on August 26, 2003, given before Cancun meeting the Indian People's Campaign against W.T.O. demanded:

"An unprecedented agrarian distress is being experienced in the country. Anti-peasant anti-people policies of Government have engendered the crisis. Exposure of Indian agriculture to the notoriously volatile and highly distorted global agriculture market in aggravating the crisis. The WTO perspective on agriculture and the so-called international discipline that is evolving there on agriculture, are totally detrimental to peasants, the agricultural workers, the rural and urban poor. In the circumstances, we insist that the Government recognize the crisis situation in agriculture, put an end to their anti-people policies, and, in particular, firmly reclaim and assert out unqualified right to impose quantitative restrictions on imports to promote the development of our agriculture and to safeguard the livelihood of seventy percent of our population."

The CMP has made a commitment that "the UPA government will ensure that adequate protection is provided to all farmers from imports, particularly when international prices fall sharply". Since the international prices are below cots of production, it is necessary to bring back QR's to allow Indian farmers to survive and stop farm suicides.

III. Deepening Debt

Rising costs of production and falling prices of farm products, implies growing rural indebtedness. The withdrawal of government from rural investments and rural credit has implied that farmers are indebted to private moneylenders charging high interest rates. Rural branches of banks declined from 35,329 in 1992 to 32,481 in 2002. Agricultural credit was only 9.8% of total outstanding of scheduled commercial banks. While 43% borrowers are from rural centers, they account for only 13.4% of outstanding loans. This is the ultimate cause, which has driven farmers to take the drastic step of taking their lives. Farmers suicides are in fact the direct outcome of policies of globalisation and economic reform designed to expand the markets and profits of seed and agribusiness MNC's. Your instructions to banks to lend more to farmers are one element of the commitment in the Common Minimum Programme. Even this needs public investment without corresponding action on other commitments it will do nothing in terms of enhancing the farmers livelihood and income security in the context of rising costs of inputs and falling farm prices.

We expect a farmer centered budget from a government brought to power by the distress and discontent our farmers are experiencing as a direct result of trade liberalization and deregulation policies. We want to see reform, but farmer centered reform to prevent farmers suicides, protect farmers livelihood security and food sovereignty.

For this the economic policies of the new government will have to address the following :

Seed Sovereignty

1. Rebuilding seed security in public hands by reviving seed farms and starting community seed banks.

2. Regulate seed MNCs and hold them liable for crop failure, and false promises, and genetic contamination. Regulate seed prices - put ceiling on seed costs.

3. Exclude food staples from IPR regime - both patent laws and the plant variety legislation.

4. Prevent biopiracy and patenting of traditional varieties eg. Basmati by Ricetec, Wheat by Monsanto in both national and international law.

5. Shift subsidies to organic farming / low external input agriculture to reduce costs of production for farmers and conserve natural resources.

Livelihood And Income Security

1. Bring back QR's to defend farmers livelihoods in the context of dumping and artificially low international prices.

2. Ensure that both private and public procurement is governed and regulated by a Minimum Price, which guarantees peasants a just price fair wages and sustenance. Put a floor on procurement price.

Freedom From Debt

1. Increase rural credit through cooperative and public sector banks.

2. Regulate interest rates charged by private moneylenders, and make high interest rates illegal. Put ceiling on interest rates charged by private lenders.

3. When crops fail because of unreliable, untested seeds, the private company selling seed should pay compensation to farmers.

4. Write off debt of farmers based on high seed costs, unreliable seed supply and high interest rates.

These steps are necessary to stop the "leakage" of our rural economy. Many of these actions need public investment to rebuild seed sovereignty and food sovereignty. The withdrawal of the state from creating the context of livelihood security and income insecurity of farmers is the real cause of the farming crisis. To address the crisis fully, some actions are needed by other ministries. But you hold the key to public investment in agriculture. We hope your budget will reflect the mandate rural India gave you and the commitment the CMP of the UPA has made to the Indian farmers. Your budget will be a litmus test for the new governments commitment to take concrete steps to stop farmers suicides. If you fail the farmers, they will fail your government like they failed the last one. Do not betray the mandate given to you by India's farmers.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Vandana Shiva

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Tomorrow's Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva Thames & Hudson 2000
PREFACE

I was trained as a physicist and had imagined my life would be passed in the company of elementary particles. Instead, I have spent the last twenty-five years with forest species and crop varieties and with the farmers who have conserved the amazing diversity of plants and animals. In the past two decades I have been trying to understand why so many of our fellow creatures are being pushed to extinction, why more and more people are permanently hungry in spite of technologies that are supposed to increase food production, why farmers are being dispossessed and pushed into debt by economic models that are supposed to improve their incomes and create prosperity. Philosophically my training as a quantum physicist has been helpful in trying to address some of these complex issues. While the classical physics of Descartes and Newton presented the world as atomized, isolated, immutable entities, quantum theory reframed the world as constantly changing and inseparable systems in dynamic interaction, with indeterminate potentials rather than with unchanging properties with fixed outcomes. It is these qualities of inseparability and indeterminacy that guide my approach to natural systems and the human impact on the environment. I have looked at biodiversity in the inter-relationship between species, and between genetic structures and their context. Through the lens of biodiversity, the world looks different and demands a change in the dominant concepts of technology and trade. Such a shift is necessary for sustainability. I would, in fact, say that biodiversity is the indicator of sustainability - the more we can conserve it, the more sustainable our actions are - the more we destroy it, the more non-sustainably we are living.

What is the future of biodiversity? Uncertainty is another legacy of quantum theory. The future of biodiversity is as uncertain as the future of the human species and the future of society. There are many initiatives and processes underway for the conservation of biodiversity, from local actions to global treaties (such as the Convention on Biological Diversity signed at Rio at the Earth Summit in 1992). On the other hand, the destruction of biodiversity is simultaneously expanding and accelerating. The worldwide spread of industrial agriculture through the forces of globalization, including the trade liberalization rules of the World Trade Organization are leading to a rapid erosion of diversity. In 1992, the conservation of biodiversity was the dominant trend. By 1995, with the elevation of the trade rules of WTO above environmental treaties and national laws, the destruction of diversity had started to appear inevitable. In 1999, that inevitability was challenged with the protests at Seattle. Alternatives became possible to imagine globally, not just locally - alternatives that paid attention to the needs of people and our non-human kin, and were not preoccupied with trade and profits. But there is no certainty about which trend will shape our future and the future of biodiversity. Will greed win or will compassion survive? Only the future can tell.
INTRODUCTION
What is Biodiversity and Why is it Important?

Biodiversity means the diversity of life - the rich diversity of life forms on our beautiful planet. Biodiversity is the very fabric of life - it provides the conditions for life's emergence and maintenance, and the many different ways in which that life is expressed. Biological diversity and cultural diversity are intimately related and interdependent. Biodiversity is in fact the embodiment of centuries of cultural evolution, because humans have co-evolved with other species in the diverse ecosystems of the world. Biodiversity in its turn has shaped the world's diverse cultures. The erosion of biodiversity and the erosion of cultural diversity are related. Both have been threatened by the globalization of an industrial culture based on reductionist knowledge, mechanistic technologies and the commodification of resources.

Throughout the twentieth century it was considered that substitutes could be found for resources supplied by biodiversity: renewable sources of energy - wood and animal energy - could be replaced by fossil fuel; manure for growing food could be replaced by the products of fertilizer factories; and medicines could be made from synthetic molecules. But fossil fuels have given us climate change; agrichemicals have threatened species, undermined soil fertility and human health; and synthetic drugs have had fatal side effects.

People everywhere are looking for alternatives that will conserve our fellow beings and produce sustainable solutions for human health and nutrition. Biodiversity and cultural diversity hold the key to these sustainable alternatives. Around the world organic agriculture is again in favour and on the increase, and alternative medicine, inspired by Chinese, Indian and other indigenous knowledge systems is gaining popularity even in the West.

However, while the movement for the rejuvenation of bio-cultural diversity is growing, new threats are emerging. Economic globalization is rapidly expanding biological and social monocultures, pushing out the diversity that remains. New technologies, such as genetic engineering, are creating new risks of biopollution while increasing chemical pollution.

The destruction of biodiversity translates into the destruction of the diversity of the livelihoods of the large majority of Third World people who make their living as farmers, fishermen, craftspeople and healers. The diversity of life forms is also fast becoming the 'green oil' or raw material for the next industrial revolution based on the emerging biotechnologies. Industry is reorganizing itself as the 'life sciences' industry, changing property laws, environmental laws and trade policies to create markets for genetically engineered products and to establish monopolies in the vital sectors of food and medicine.

Different approaches to scientific knowledge raise fundamentally different problems and give fundamentally different answers to basic questions about the nature of biological organisms, their functions and values, their economic utility, and the impact of genetically engineered organisms on people's health and the environment. Reductionist biology is in conflict with relational biology. The reductionist approach is characterized by the assumption that organisms are mechanical constructs made of genes, their functions are determined by genes and life forms are 'gene machines' that can be redesigned to perform new functions. It provides the basis of genetic engineering and the patenting of life. If organisms are merely bundles of DNA, shuffling DNA around is like moving bricks around in house construction, or moving machine parts in automobiles.
The Erosion of Biodiversity

At the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Convention on Biological Diversity was drawn up. It provides a comprehensive definition of the term biological diversity, which it defines under Article a as: 'The variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part; this includes diversity within species, between species and ecosystems. Estimates of the number of species in existence vary from 3.6 million to 100 million, of which, to date, scientists have described an estimated 1.7 million. According to present counts, bacteria have 3,058 recognized species; vascular plants have 260,000; fungi have 70,000; viruses have 500,000; vertebrates have 45,000; and insects have 950,000.

All life forms have an intrinsic worth and a right to evolve freely on their own terms. Humankind is one among millions of other species. It does not have a right to push other species to extinction, or to manipulate them for greed, profit and power without concern for their well-being. Compassion for all living things has been the basis of most ancient faiths in the world, and is the basis of contemporary movements for animal welfare, for wilderness protection and for the conservation of biodiversity. Native Americans refer to other species as brothers and sisters. In India we think in terms of the Earth Family.

For agribusiness, the biotechnology industry and the technicians who serve them, however, other species have value only as sources of raw material and profit, and can be manipulated and engineered regardless of their welfare. For instance, cows are just udders for the maximization of milk production using recombinant bovine growth hormones (rBGH). Sheep are `mammalian bioreactors' for the production of pharmaceuticals in their mammary glands. Microbes and plants are sources of genes and provide substances which can be extracted, recombined with other organisms, patented, and bought and sold in global markets.

The ethical conflict between the intrinsic worth and the commercial value of all life forms has become a major issue in negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO), in the commercialization of genetic engineering of plants and animals, and in the patents taken out around the world on plants, animals and microorganisms. In Seattle where the WTO met for trade talks in 1999, in Washington at the World Bank meeting in April 2000, in Davos at the World Economic Forum, and in Millau at José Bové's trial for attacking McDonald's in July 2000, thousands of people took part in protests to call attention to the rights and the inherent value of other species.

Seeing other life forms as biological and genetic raw material is fraught with ecological risks. The smallest microbe plays a critical role in maintaining the ecological processes that create the conditions of life for all species, including, of course, our own. Our ignorance of the ecological functions of diverse forms of life is no excuse for us to push species to extinction, or to manipulate them without concern for the ecological impact. Species now become extinct at the rate of 27,000 per year -1,ooo times the natural rate and human greed and desire for profit are the primary cause of most of these extinctions.

Biodiversity, from genes to species to ecosystems, works in harmony and in concert to create and maintain life. This is at the heart both of ancient wisdom and of new holistic theories, such as James Lovelock's `Gaia' theory, which is, in summary, that the earth is a living system, self-regulating and self organizing. Just as our bodies maintain their temperature, the earth's equilibrium is maintained through ecological processes in which biodiversity plays a central role.

Biodiversity is assessed at three fundamental levels of biological organization: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity.

Genetic diversity is the variation at the genetic level, i.e. in the components of nucleic acids which constitute the genetic code. Genes are considered the blueprints of life. While gene theory is elegant for understanding replication and inheritance, it is totally inadequate when extended to a theory of life. Only one per cent of all the genetic material of higher organisms is known to relate to the form and function of the organism. We are still ignorant about the role of the remaining 99 per cent, but, in our usual human arrogance, instead of referring to our 99 per cent ignorance, we refer to the 99 per cent `junk' DNA. In any case, the complex functions and traits of biological systems cannot be reduced to the genetic level. As the eminent molecular biologist, Professor Richard Strohman of Berkeley, has stated:

Neither genes nor environments `cause' complex traits. If a word is needed there, then `cell' will name the cause. It is the cell, and the body of cells as a whole, that selects from the dynamical interactions inherent in its physical and chemical pathways, and responds formatively and adaptively to the external environment. We have mistakenly replaced the concept and reality of the cell as a dynamical center of integrative activity with the concept of gene causality.

(Interview in Wild Duck Review, Summer 1999

Reducing biodiversity to the genetic level is therefore ecologically and scientifically misguided. The value and functions of living organisms are important at higher levels of organization.

Species diversity is the species richness of an ecosystem - the word species literally means outward or visible form. All cultures have ways of organizing life forms along lines of difference. The ecological significance of species can vary tremendously. A tree of the tropical rainforest can support more than a hundred species of insects, whereas a European alpine plant may have no other species wholly dependent on it.

Ecosystems are ecologically and biologically organized systems consisting of diverse flora and fauna. Since an ecosystem is an ecological unit by definition, a simple arithmetical count of variation is not enough to assess biodiversity. Ecological interactions between diverse species become the key measure for ecosystem diversity. Tropical rainforests are the richest terrestrial ecosystems. They cover 7 per cent of the world's surface area, and may well contain 70 per cent of all species (Groombridge, ed., Global Biodiversity, 1992). Oceans occupy two-thirds of the Earth's surface, and, although they are as rich as forest ecosystems, they have been viewed as 'a vast desert, desperately short of nutrients and with living things spread most thinly through them' (Colinvaux, Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare, 1980).

For the first 2 billion years of the 3.5 billion years or more that life has existed, bacteria and other microorganisms were the only living things on earth. As the famous geneticist David Suzuki says in From Naked Ape to Super Species (1999), 'We owe practically all life to bacteria.' Microorganisms create the planet's living environment which supports life. According to James Lovelock, photosynthetic cyanobacteria were instrumental in producing oxygen, without which human life would not be possible. Microorganisms continue to play a critical role in maintaining biogeochemical cycles. The recycling of water, oxygen, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulphur and carbon is made possible by diverse species working incessantly to maintain the ecological processes that support life. Forty per cent of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis is carried out by algae and cyanobacteria in the seas and oceans. Fungi that decay wood release about 85 billion tonnes of carbon as CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Each year, bacteria fix zoo million tonnes of nitrogen, release 210 million tonnes of nitrogen by denutrification and release 75 million tonnes of ammonia (Groombridge (ed.), Global Biodiversity, 1992). The work of microorganisms reduces industrial activity to insignificance.

The greatest biomass in soil, on the basis of current evidence, is that of the microorganisms, above all the fungi. Soil microorganisms maintain soil structure, contribute to the biodegradation of dead plants and animals, and fix nitrogen, and so are the key to soil fertility. Their destruction by chemicals threatens our survival and our food security. When scientists in Denmark scooped up a cubic metre (35 cubic feet) of earth from a beech forest and took it into their laboratory, they found 50,000 small earthworms, 50,000 insects and mites, and 12 million roundworms. A gram of the same soil revealed 30,000 protozoa, 50,000 algae, 400,000 fungi and billions of individual bacteria Of 4,000 unknown species.

Bacteria, fungi and protozoa in the guts of animals perform crucial functions in digestion, without which the so-called higher animals could not exist. Microorganisms are also powerful factors in disease and death.

In the oceans, which are so central to the maintenance of Gaia's life, up to 80 per cent of the biomass and productivity in open waters is contributed by ultra planktonic algae (Anderson, 'The Diversity of Eukaryotic Algae', in Global Biodiversity, 1992).

Human beings are dearly highly ignorant of other members of the Earth Family and, at least in the Western worldview, have thought of themselves as sitting on top of a biodiversity pyramid or tree rather than forming a part of a complex web of life. Even the most popular conservation programmes have focused on the species closest to human beings, the large mammals: 'Project Tiger' and 'Project Elephant' have been the dominant models for biodiversity conservation. Microbes have had no conservation movements or campaigns for 'microbe rights' for their protection. Nor has it been recognized that in the final analysis microbes are more powerful than 'Man'.

The lesson from biodiversity is co-operation, not competition. It is that the big depends on the small, and cannot survive by exterminating the small.

Since ecological stability or instability is linked to species interactions, it is the relational approach to biodiversity that is important, not the arithmetical approach. For the same reason, conserving biodiversity cannot be achieved by putting it in a museum or a zoo. Biodiversity in balance creates the conditions of life, and species in conflict and out of balance become life-threatening.

I therefore follow the approach to biodiversity which is based not on the number of species or their variation, but takes account of the ecological web of life that species create in interaction. I differentiate between the arithmetical approach and the ecological approach. The arithmetical approach is currently the dominant one. It relates to 'variation or differences among some set of entities' - and 'number, variety and variability used to describe the number, variety and variability of living organisms' (Groombridge, ed., Global Biodiversity, 1992). The extinction of a species means not just the loss of that particular species, but also a threat to the other species that are supported by it through ecological processes. When one plant becomes extinct, with it disappear the twenty to forty animal and insect species that rely on it. Salmon, which spend their adult lives at sea, return to their natal streams to spawn. Bears, eagles and wolves catch the salmon and transfer the nutrients to the land. Marine carbon and nitrogen isotopes in salmon have been tracked by scientists, and a5-4o per cent of the carbon and nitrogen in juvenile salmon was found to come from their parents. Ninety per cent of the nitrogen and carbon in the bodies of grizzly bear was of marine origin. A single bear will catch 750 salmon, of which the partially consumed carcasses become nutrients for trees. Salmon are the biggest source of nitrogen fertilizer for the forest thousands of miles from the ocean. The growth of trees is correlated to the marine carbon and nitrogen the salmon bring to the forest. As David Suzuki says in giving this beautiful example of the web of life, 'The fish need the forest, the forest needs the fish' (From Naked Ape to Super Species). This interrelationship and mutual dependence is the reason why biodiversity cannot be looked at in a fragmented, atomized context.

Mass extinctions have taken place during geological time, but the erosion of biodiversity has become a systemic product of industrialization. For animals, habitat loss, caused by large dams, industrial plantations, highways and the expansion of human settlements, is the major threat to species survival. Species of birds and fish have also been pushed to extinction by the use of pesticides; this was the story of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1965). In 1998, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) published a major review of the conservation status of breeding birds since 1992. Twenty species were placed on the BTO's 'high alert' list owing to severe population declines of over 50 per cent in the last twenty-five years (Crick, et al., Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside). A press release of at March 1999 by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) stated that three-quarters of the UK's skylarks that is 4.6 million - have vanished as a consequence of pesticide use.

According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 1,029 birds, 1,083 insects, 507 mammals, 169 reptiles, 57 amphibians, 713 fish, 409 molluscs, 154 corals and sponges, 139 annelid worms and tab crustaceans are threatened. In terms of percentages, 11.7 per cent of the mammal species, to per cent of the birds, 3.67 per cent of the fish and 3.5 per cent of the reptiles are threatened.

Globalization has accelerated the destruction of biodiversity to such a pace and on such a scale that plants and animals that were common a few years ago have disappeared. Global market integration converts millions of acres of forests and farms into industrial monocultures, displacing and destroying both biodiversity and the cultural diversity of local communities.

According to the dominant paradigm of production, diversity goes against productivity, which creates an imperative for uniformity and monocultures. The irony of modern plant- and animal-breeding is that it destroys the very building blocks on which the technology depends. Forestry development schemes introduce monocultures of industrial species, such as eucalyptus, and push into extinction the diversity of local species that fulfils local needs. The Leipzig Global Plan of Action on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 1995, based on 158 country reports and 12 regional and subregional papers, stated that 'the chief contemporary cause of the loss of genetic diversity has been the spread of modern, commercial agriculture'. Agricultural modernization schemes introduce new and uniform crops into farmers' fields and destroy the diversity of local varieties. In the words of Professor Garrison Wilkes of the University of Massachusetts, this is analogous to taking stones from the foundation of a building in order to repair the roof. Monocultures are ecologically unstable - this alone should be enough to prevent them being viewed as essential to production. The narrowing of the genetic base of agriculture leads to increased vulnerability of production and a threat to food security. Growing uniformity is increasing the risk of crop failure. The imperative to destroy diversity in order to increase productivity comes from a one-dimensional monoculture paradigm which fails to take the diverse functions of diverse species into account. Some of these functions include ecosystem maintenance. Destruction of diversity encourages pests and diseases. More than 70,000 pest species destroy 40 per cent of the world's harvest. During the past forty years, crop loss to insects alone has nearly doubled, despite a tenfold increase in the amount of pesticides applied (Pimental, et al., in Bio-Science, December 1997).

Biodiversity has rescued our food security from the risks of genetic uniformity. Wheat breeders used T. monococcum, macaroni wheat, for its resistance to rust, caused by Puccima fungi. Rust epidemics can destroy 75 per cent of the crop, and even in normal years it causes losses of 4 per cent or 2.3 million tonnes (Prescott-Allen, Genes from the wild, 1983). During the 1970s, grassy stunt virus destroyed more than 116,ooo hectares (290 acres) of rice in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Philippines. It is controlled by introducing resistance from the wild rice species Oryza nivara. If this wild rice had not been collected and saved in India, the food security of millions would have been threatened. Of the 6,000 varieties screened, only the wild rice from India had resistance to the disease. Similarly, wild maize varieties have the potential of saving $50-250 million dollars' worth of the maize crop in the USA from disease.

The potato famine in Ireland in 1845-46 was caused by genetic uniformity which led to an epidemic of potato blight, caused by the fungus Phyto plithora infestans. The famine reduced Ireland's population from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.2 million in 1851. Future potato famines were prevented by wild potato varieties from the Andes. Traditional cultures have conserved biodiversity, and this is why it is still available for the rescue of industrial monocultures each time they became vulnerable to disease and pests.

A 1972 National Academy of Sciences study, 'The Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops', stated: 'The corn crop fell victim to the epidemic because of a quirk in the technology that had designed the corn plants of America, until, in one sense, they had become as alike as identical twins. Whatever made one plant susceptible made them all susceptible.' (Doyle, Altered Harvest, 1985-)

As the food industry becomes more concentrated and integrated, uniformity is the result, and the globalization of consumption Patterns, by creating monocultures and destroying diversity, has a devastating effect on the poorest on the planet. First, they are pushed into deeper poverty by being forced to 'compete' with globally powerful forces to gain access to the local biological resources. Secondly, their economic alternatives outside the global market are destroyed.

A US Department of Agriculture list of recommended fruits published in 1897 included more than 275 different varieties of apples. Today the apple varieties sold are less than a dozen. Supermarkets around the world essentially offer three types of apples: a red one, the Starking, from the USA; a yellow one, the so-called Golden Delicious, also from the USA; and a green one, the Granny Smith or pippin, from Australia (Vellvé, Saving the Seed, 1992). A survey in France showed that a few years ago, the diet was rich with 250 plant species including vegetables, fruits and condiments. Today, barely 6o are cultivated in that country, and of these only 30 make up the bulk of local consumption. Crop genetic resources are disappearing at the rate of 1-2 per cent per annum (UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, Development Education Exchange Papers, September 1993). About 75 per cent of the diversity of agricultural crops is estimated to have been lost since the beginning of the century.

Globally, domestic livestock breeds are disappearing at an annual rate of 5 per cent or 6 breeds per month (FAO, World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity, 5 December 1995). Of 4,000-5,000 breeds, 1,500 are threatened with extinction.

There is considerable evidence globally that the trend is towards monoculture and uniformity and away from diversity:

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In the European Union:
75 per cent of the milk is produced by a quarter of the dairy farms
80 per cent of the pork comes from 10 per cent of the pig farms
90 per cent of the poultry comes from 10 per cent of the poultry farms
60 per cent of the cereals come from 6 per cent of the arable farms.
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In Europe 80 per cent of all farmland is sown to just four crops.
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In the Netherlands:
a single potato variety covers 80 per cent of potato-growing land
three wheat varieties cover 90 per cent of wheat-growing land.
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In the UK
three varieties of potatoes make up 68 per cent of the crop
one variety makes up the remaining 32 per cent.
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In Greece, wheat diversity has declined by 95 per cent.
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In India, under the impact of the Green Revolution, rice varieties cultivated decreased from more than 100,000 to 10
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In Sri Lanka, 2,000 varieties of rice were cultivated in 1959, but only 5 major varieties today.
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In India, 50 per cent of the goat breeds, 20 per cent of the cattle breeds and 30 per cent of the sheep breeds are in a danger of disappearing.
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The entire pork economy of the world is based on 4 breeds.
In China 40 to 50 breeds were once farmed, and are now being replaced by hybrid pigs bred from the 4 'global' breeds.
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The world's main fishing grounds are being fished beyond their limits.
About 70 per cent of the world's conventional marine species are threatened.
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One-fifth of all freshwater fish species known in the 1970s are already extinct or endangered.

The Wealth of the Poor

Biodiversity is not just a conservation issue, it is an issue affecting economic survival. Biodiversity is the means of livelihood and the `means of production' of the poor who have no access to other assets or means of production. For food and medicine, for energy and fibre, for ceremony and crafts the poor depend on the wealth of biological resources and on their knowledge and skills related to biodiversity. As biodiversity disappears, the poor are further impoverished and deprived of the healthcare and nutrition that biodiversity provides. The consumption patterns of the rich and the production patterns of the powerful can undermine the consumption patterns of the poor by contributing to the erosion of biodiversity.

Agricultural biodiversity is the basis of economic life for two-thirds of the world's population - those people who live in rural economies in the Third World. The diversity of crop varieties and animal breeds have been developed as a response to the diversity of different ecosystems. Rice varieties have been developed to grow in flooded regions and in rainfed mountain slopes. Cattle breeds have been developed to match the climate in deserts and in wet rainforest regions.

There exists a very intricate relationship between local communities and biological diversity. Hunting-and-gathering communities use thousands of plants and animals for food, medicine and shelter. Pastoral, peasant and fishing communities have also developed the knowledge and skills to obtain a sustainable livelihood from living diversity, in both wild and domesticated forms, on the land, in the rivers, lakes and seas. The life of communities has been enhanced spiritually, culturally and economically as the communities in turn have enriched Earth's biodiversity.

All our food comes from wild species that have been domesticated and which need to return to their wild relatives to build genetic resistance to disease and pests. Approximately 80,000 edible plants have been used at one time or another since the beginning of agriculture, of which at least 3,000 have been used consistently. However, only about 150 have been cultivated. Globally we now rely on just eight crops to provide 75 per cent of the world's food.

India is rich in livestock. Breeds adapted to their specific local environmental and climatic conditions are indispensable to the rural economies of their regions. The animals provide draught power and transportation, dung as fertilizer and as cooking fuel, dairy products, wool, meat and leather. There are 26 breeds of cattle in India. The Ongole breed from Andhra Pradesh, excellent milkers, are also very strong, appropriate for heavy ploughing. The Desi from the same region, are hardy and disease-resistant, like the famous Vechur breed of Kerala, now on the brink of extinction. The Nagauri of the north are one of the most useful draught breeds in India, and the Red Sindhi cattle of Rajasthan are both good draught animals and sound milk producers. Rajasthan also possesses several breeds of camel, and of its eight breeds of sheep - six from the desert areas - the Nagra is the best wool producer. Sheep play a vital role in the rural economy providing wool, milk and meat. Tragically, many breeds are faced with extinction following a dramatic decline in their numbers over the last decades.

Over centuries, a delicate equilibrium has evolved between the indigenous animals and the flora of each region. The communities and their livestock are dependent on the wide range of fodder, and each species consumes different plants and trees so that a balance is sustained. A comprehensive medicinal knowledge of local plants has also developed to cure diseases in animals.

It has been estimated that three billion people - 60 per cent of the world's population - depend on traditional medicines as a principle source of cures for disease. In India and China, 80-90 per cent of traditional medicines are plant-based, and Chinese herbal treatments alone use 5,000 species. In Kenya, 40 per cent of herbal medicines come from the native forest trees. In Amazonia, an ethnobotanical team has catalogued more than 1,000 plants used by the Indian tribes, many of them as medicine. In South Africa, there are approximately 200,000 traditional healers. In total, about 3,000 species of higher plants are used for traditional medicines and of these about 300 are the most commonly used.

India has a rich and ancient heritage of medical knowledge based on its vast resources of medicinal plant biodiversity. India's medical system is called Ayurveda. Its earliest documentation is found in Aatharvaveda, one of the foremost ancient books of Indian knowledge, wisdom and culture, supposed to date from around 1500 BCE. These systems of knowledge and the sources from which they have evolved have survived millennia because they are built on sustainability. Even today, over 70 per cent of the health needs of India are met by these systems. According to an ethnobotanical survey, there are 7,500 species of plants used for medicinal purposes by local Indian communities.

India has something like 1,400 plants documented in various Ayurvedic texts, approximately 342 in Unani, and close to 328 in the Siddha system. This biodiversity-based traditional medicinal system is still being kept alive by 360,740 Ayurveda practitioners, 29,701 Unani experts and 11,644 specialists of Siddha, not to mention millions of housewives and elders who prepare homemade remedies for common ailments.

Everywhere local people have made independent appraisals of their local resources. The plant Ephedra vulgaris, which is found in trans-Himalaya, possesses broncho-dilation properties and is only found in that ecosystem. It is commonly used by the local people as a herbal tea, and taken several times a day. In Ayurveda (unlike most folk traditions, it is not oral but written down) there is a body of knowledge called dhravya guna shastra, which is the indigenous knowledge of pharmacology. Since the Vedic period a plant named tulsi (Ocimum sanctum L.) has had a very sacred place in Indian healing. In both Ayurveda and Siddha the tulsi leaves and the juices from its leaves, roots and seeds are used to cure various ailments, such as intestinal gas, coughs, worms, skin diseases and kidney disorders. It also regulates the flow of urine, subdues inflammation and restores the body by cleansing the system of toxins, while strengthening and toning every organ.

The Kani tribe of the Agastyar hills in Southern Kerala have a habit of eating the raw leaves of a plant known as arogya pacha (Trichopus zeylnicus), which they call 'health drug'. In the Central Himalayas, millet grain cooked in water is mixed with buttermilk and used in the treatment of chickenpox.

Quinine, digitalis and morphine are derived from plants, and even in the USA 40 per cent of all prescriptions still depend on natural sources. The first birth-control pills were made from a plant called Diascorea. Digitalis, the most popular medicine for heart problems, is made from Digitalis (foxglove) which contains glycosides, which regulate heart beats, in its leaves. Hypertension is treated by reserpine, derived from Rauwofia serpentia which has been used in India for centuries. Quinine, for malaria, is basically an indigenous medicine from Peru. The tree was called quinaol quina-quina by the native Indians. From the rosy periwinkle, Vinca rosea, are extracted the cancer cures Vinblastine and Vincristine, and alkaloids derived from Vinca rosea are used for Hodgkin's disease and childhood leukemia (Koopowitz and Kaye, Plant Extinction, 1990).

It is estimated that 100 million of the world's poorest people depend on fishing for all or part of their livelihoods. According to an estimate by the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), there are a million large fishing boats and z million small boats. Most of the large fishing vessels are controlled by transnational corporations and use all the latest aids to fish-detection, catching and processing, allowing them to become more efficient hunting machines, and so leading to the problem of overfishing. As a special issue of the Ecologist reports, completely automatic trawlnets that detect the approach of a school of fish electronically, and automatically pay out or retrieve warp to place the net in the path of the shoal are now appearing on the market. The 'Gloria' super trawlnet, developed in Ireland, measures 110 by 170 metres (360 by 560 feet) at its mouth, large enough to swallow a dozen Boeing jumbo jets. The reduction of all value to commercial value results in the development of technologies which are ecologically crude. Large catches are made possible by the destruction of livelihoods and of diverse species. As a Malaysian community has said:

The trawlers approved by the government 10 to 15 years ago are strongly opposed by the small inshore fishermen whose income is small and who use traditional nets. We should be concerned with the government's policy of too much dependence on modern science and technology... The root cause of the present scarcity of fish is trawler fishing. The trawler overturns the soil on the seabed and scoops up all the small fish and fry.

In India, ever since shrimp became an export commodity through export-oriented fisheries development, there is less to catch and less to eat. Until the end of the 1950s the marine fish harvest increased at a rate of 5 per cent per annum. By the mid-'8os, after 'development', the rate of growth of the marine fish harvest had decreased. Fish consumption declined in India from r9 kg (42 lbs) per year per capita to 9 kg (20 lbs) per year.

From the early 1970s, landings of most of the major seabottom-dwelling fish began to decline sharply, largely because of excessive fishing (in the case of purseining) and destructive fishing (in the case of trawling which degraded the seabed). Catches of sardines and mackerel, once the mainstay of the fisheries, fell from 250,000 tonnes in 1968 to 87,000 tonnes in 19go. In this period in South America the consumption of fish went down by 7.9 per cent and in Africa by 2.9 per cent, while European fish consumption rose by 23 per cent.

This is the reason that small fishermen worldwide have organized as the World Forum of Fish Workers to protest for their right to fish. On 23 and 24 November 1994, a million fish workers from nine maritime states in India covering a coastline of over 7,500 kilometres (4,660 miles) went on strike. They were protesting against Indian government policies that gave international joint ventures free access to fish in the country's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). During the week of the National Strike, one joint-venture vessel called at the port in Cochin, Kerala. Its hold contained 2,000 tonnes of perch and snapper, equivalent to the amount caught in one year by 1,000 hook-and-line fishermen in the region.

All the needs of two-thirds of the world's people are met by biodiversity. If biodiversity is reduced, they are poorer. Even the privileged one-third of humanity living in the industrialized world depends on biodiversity. Oil and coal were made by creatures living millions of years ago. The cement that builds giant skyscrapers, bridges and parking lots comes from limestone, the remains of skeletons and shells, corals and other marine life.

While industrial civilization uses the gifts of biodiversity, it abuses the living richness of our world. The C02 pumped out by our energy and transportation systems is destabilizing climates, leading to an increase in forest fires, droughts, hurricanes, floods, and a rise in sea levels and sea temperature - all of which contribute to the loss of biodiversity. Industrial agriculture, forestry and fisheries convert rich, diverse ecosystems into biologically impoverished chemically intensive monocultures, writing a death sentence for millions of species while claiming higher `growth'.

This is at the heart of the present conflicts over biodiversity. Systems that destroy biodiversity and those that conserve it both need it. In biodiversity-based economies it is the growth of biodiversity that is the measure of progress. In biodiversity-annihilating economies, it is the growth of money that is the measure of progress. We could, in fact, talk of systems that are life-centred and biodiversity-centred versus systems that are money- and capital-centred.
Rich and Poor in Biodiversity

When assessed in terms of biodiversity rather than financial capital, the South is rich and the North is poor. The wealth of Europe in the colonial era was, to a large extent, based on the transfer of biological resources from the colonies to the centres of imperial power, and the displacement of local biodiversity in the colonies by monocultures of raw material for European industry. The historian A. W. Crosby has called the biological transfer of wealth from the Americas to Europe the 'Columbian exchange', because with Columbus's arrival in America began the mass transfer of maize, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, peanuts, common beans, sunflowers and other crops across the Atlantic. Sugar, bananas, coffee, tea, rubber, indigo, cotton and other industrial crops were grown in new sites under the control of newly emerging colonial powers and their state-backed trading companies. The North accumulated wealth by gaining control over the biological resources of the South. Destroying the biodiversity that it could not use or control was the other less visible side of this process of colonization.

In spite of the immeasurable contribution that Third World biodiversity has made to the wealth of industrialized countries, corporations, governments and aid agencies of the North continue to create legal and political frameworks to make the Third World pay for what it originally gave. The emerging trends in global trade and technology work inherently against justice and ecological sustainability. They threaten to create a new era of bioimperialism, built on the biological impoverishment of the Third World and the biosphere. Patents, industrialization of food and agriculture, globalization of trade through the rules of VITO are the new mechanisms by which the biological wealth of the South is being transferred to the North, leaving the Third World poorer both ecologically and economically.
The Empty Earth Syndrome

Third World countries located in the tropics have been endowed with great biological wealth and are the cradle of biodiversity. This wealth is being rapidly destroyed. In my view there are two root causes. The first arises from the `empty-earth' paradigm of colonization, which assumes that ecosystems are empty if not taken over by Western industrial man or his clones. For five hundred years, colonization has been based on the idea of the 'emptiness' of the earth and of other cultures. The assumption of the empty land leads to the denial of prior inhabitants and their prior rights. The idea of emptiness also leads to the notion of limitlessness - that there are no limits set by nature or other cultures to be respected, no ecological or ethical limits, no limits to the level of greed or accumulation. The empty-earth hypothesis in addition creates a divided world - divisions which exist and deepen even in globalization, and were evident in the failed round of the WTO talks in Seattle. 'To us they cannot come, our land is full; to them we may go, their land is empty.' (Robert Cushman 1621, quoted in Kadir, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth, 1992.) Creating clones of Western forms of industrial production and excessive consumption is called 'development' but is actually 'maldevelopment'. (Shiva, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, 1998.) This view threatens other species and other cultures to extinction because it is blind to their existence, their rights and to the impact of the colonizing culture. The second cause is what I have described as the monoculture of the mind: the idea that the world is or should be uniform and one-dimensional, that diversity is either disease or deficiency, and monocultures are necessary for the production of more food and economic benefits (Shiva, Monocultures of the Mind, 1993). It is the scientific and technological reflection of the empty-earth worldview. The shutting out of alternative ways of knowing and making leads to the assumption that the dominant knowledge and techniques are the only option. This monoculture of the mind destroys biodiversity by blocking the perception of the multiple benefits and uses of biodiversity.


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Organic farming is a way of life that dates back 150 years in Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch’s family. Her great-grandfather homesteaded on the north central farm where Nancy was born. When Nancy’s father inherited the farm from her grandfather in the 1950s, it was on the condition of a promise never to use chemicals on the land or livestock. Today, Nancy’s brother Joe farms the home place, still honoring that land ethic.


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Lovingly tended Jersey cows that are the source of Yellow Branch Cheese. Every morning Bruce DeGroot milks them and then, on cheese-making day, turns their fresh milk into mild, buttery, full-bodied farmstead cheese. You can’t get this kind of cheese everywhere, but you can get it in western North Carolina because of innovative farmers like Bruce DeGroot and Karen Mickler who are experimenting with new “old” ways of making a living on a small southern Appalachian farm.


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Judi Bikel at June 28, 2006 06:42 PM at John Mackey's blog:

This discussion would be very interesting if my Los Angeles-area Whole Foods actually seemed to carry organic produce.

The selection of organics in season in California is really quite poor. There is far, far too many imported "organic" products in season in California and far too little from local producers.

Finally, the dairy selections often come from the worst of the mega "organic" dairies. They are all ultra-pasturized which is the lowest possible quality. And despite repeated-- repeated requests I can't even a decent brand of cream in the stores.

I shop at Whole Foods all the same time but not because I think of it as an organic store. I shop at it because it is close. Real, sustainable organics are purchased from my local farmer's market.


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Husam Abd Al Haleem is a vegetable trader and he has 3 lorries to transfer the vegetables from the other cities like the grapes from Hebron and the bananas from Jericho….etc.
And he has 20 workers who remove the vegetables from the lorries and who sale it to the markets of Nablus and he pay 100 shekels for the ones
Who work in the ground and 150 for the lorries drivers because he think they worth this money for the suffering at the chick points like Hwara and Zatra at the entry of Nablus and the other chick points around the Palestinian cities and he hope that this situation will change at the soon future!


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“The crisis is not only over-supply of coffee,” said Byron Corrales, a coffee grower and vice-president of Cafenica, a 6,000-member federation of small growers’ cooperatives. “It’s also about protecting our environment and establishing a relationship between producers, buyers and consumers that will benefit everyone.”


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عادل مروان مزارع من قرية طلوزه القريبة من مدينة نابلس يعمل كبائع لعصير اللوز الذي يبدأ موسم نضوجه في مثل هذا الوقت من السنة أي في شهري شباط وآذار من كل عام وهذا الموسم هو موسم قطاف اللوز في فلسطين , يقول لنا عادل أن عصير اللوز الطازج هو عصير منعش ويحبه العديد من الناس في فلسطين ويلقى رواجاً من قبل الناس , كذلك فأنا أقوم ببعه بسعر جيد نظراً للصعوبة التي تحتاجه لإستخلاص عصير اللوز من الثمره فأنت تحتاج الى عصر كمية كبيرة للحصول على كمية عصير قليلة


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A father of seven children, Harson Chibwe has seen his life and that of his family transformed since he began working with Self Help in Mtoro, a village in the Kapucka Project area of Malawi two years ago.

His traditional straw roofed mud and wattle home has been transformed by a series of practical domestic improvements all undertaken by the householder and his family, his farm unrecognisable from the subsistence small-holding he had been running until a short time ago.


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As the days lengthen, Denny and Emily Wettstein of Carlock, IL use all the daylight they can to bring their farm operation up to full production


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From the farmtotable website:
Organically grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs abound at Birdsfoot farm, a 73-acre �intentional farming community,� where dozens of people have lived and worked since it was founded in 1972. Today there are 12 people here, sharing the work it takes to run a farm and live a communal life. Kerstin Tengeler, known as �Dulli," is one of them.


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'At the moment one of the greatest problems is the fall in prices for coffee that can be got to keep a family and educate my children. One of my main aims is to convert my plots of land over to organic coffee, so as to compete in the markets on quality instead of quantity. I'm working hard on this. Because of Fairtrade I receive more money and when I produce organic coffee I will also receive more money.'

Because a lot more coffee is produced than people in the world drink, the price paid for coffee to small farmers like Felipe is very low. Growing organic coffee, that does not use chemicals, means that farmers like Felipe can sell their coffee for a better price.


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IthacaHours success story:

Dan sells deli goods and his HOURS have bought baby supplies, Christmas presents, vegetables, chiropractic care, and more. He and his wife gave HOURS as a wedding present. "This is a good idea. All small businesses, especially grocers, see big businesses take their customers away by specialty marketing. HOURS are another way to remind shoppers to shop with local businesses, where they get more personal service and attention to detail.

"With this system, money doesn't head north, south, east or west. It creates our own mini-economy."


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Posted January 12, 2007: Our first three CSA seasons here at Stoney Lonesome Farm in Gainesville, Virginia, have been a crash course in how to grow a diverse range of vegetables, how to work with and build a community of support around our farm, and how to navigate any of a thousand different challenging scenarios. We have benefited tremendously from the knowledge and experience of others doing CSA programs, and from the accrued wisdom of the small farm community. We have been supported and encouraged through our tough first years by a local food network that recognizes the urgency of growing the next generation of farmers and preserving remaining farmland for an uncertain future.


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From Umesh Rashmi Rohatgi's website:

We know swami Narain Giri ji since he visited USA many years ago. He is Mahant of Shri Koteshwar temple in Kutch Gujarat. He is not only running a day school for Sanskrit students at his ashram, very near to Pakistan border but also improving the lives of thousands of people in surrounding area by his unique approach to solving their problems. We try to meet him whenever we go to Gujarat and offer help whatever little we can for his armada of 2000 cows. This area is starved for usable water but with his unique approach and hard work Swami ji manage to produce enough fodder for his cows in 100 acre donated land.


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"Livestock play a vital role in getting optimal yield from our agricultural system, because yield depends upon the fertiliser and we get the fertiliser from the livestock. If we do not produce sufficient fertiliser we would not be able to get maximum production from our fields as we cannot transport the chemical fertiliser from the down country due to the unavailability of road… we can only rely on what we produce from our own resources."
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If you want to know what it means to work as casual labour on your own land, meet P Venkateswarlu in this village of 70 households of the Koya tribe. He has four acres; his two brothers have two acres each. “We ran up debts of Rs 30,000 with dealers of seeds and pesticides five years ago.


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One grower of tieh-kuan-yin is Chou Jen-chih (©P¤¯´¼), who has been producing the tea for over 20 years and has run a tea house on his farm since 1988. His tea house (25 Chihnan Road, Sec. 3, Lane 38) is quiet, rustic, and even more traditional than many other shops in the area. As you walk in, in fact, you feel almost like you are entering a tea shrine. A glass case displays the different tools used for cultivating and drinking tea. Although selecting a tea and snacks in a shop with so much variety can be intimidating, Chou and his assistants, as is the case with most other shops in Maokung, are more than happy to make suggestions.


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Bubble Tech Insulation and Shading System: Changing microclimate to reduce climate change
Ross Elliott, Homestead Building Consultants?
‘Lively Up?’ Winter Harvest, RR #1, Mc Donalds Corners, Canada
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Fresh, unprocessed, locally-grown organic produce should be at the heart of an environmentally-sustainable food system, yet a typical Canadian meal has been transported over 2000 kilometers from producer to market, consuming vast quantities of fossil fuels in the process. Growing food in winter greenhouses is often uneconomical due to the low thermal resistance of glazing systems and the rising cost of fossil-fuel heat. Conversely, greenhouse overheating is a common daytime problem, and excess solar gain is generally vented rather than stored for later use in winter, or deflected with shading systems in summer. If a way could be found to produce food locally in cold seasons using only captured solar energy, this would reduce reliance on long-distance transportation of fresh produce, lower carbon dioxide emissions, slow climate change and increase food self-sufficiency. Use controlled environments to reduce greenhouse gases and produce fresh, local, organic food...Finite fossil fuels threaten global food security...

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We built the 1500 square foot ‘Lively Up’ Winter Harvest solar greenhouse prototype to research the use of soap bubbles to create a replaceable and removable layer that allows shading or R-30 insulation as needed. This layer prevents overheating by collecting and storing excess solar gain, reduces the Design Heat Loss of the building dramatically at night, while allowing maximum light availability for optimum plant growth during short winter days. A series of mist sprayers between the two glazing layers cool interior temperatures while collecting solar heat in 20,000 liters of water. The ‘Bubble Tech’ Insulation & Shading System should eliminate the need for fossil-fuel heating or powered ventilation to maintain optimum growing conditions year-round in any climate. This is the first operational Tunnel Structure? of this kind in the world. Results of this research will be applied to creating a 9000 square foot gutter-connected commercial greenhouse operation, as well as many other projects currently planned or underway worldwide. All results will be published as “Open Source” technology with commercial users invited to “Pay It Forward?”. For further details see www.solaroof.org

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The greenhouse was completed to the first layer of plastic by the end of 2001, at which point further construction was suspended due to the onset of winter. Crops of lettuce, mesclun, coriander , swiss chard, parsley and beets grew vigorously all winter long under row covers, while the constantly circulating 42,000 lb. liquid thermal mass within the insulated foundation reached a low of 5C and kept the soil from freezing. This was without any bubbles or even a second layer of plastic, so we assume there is geothermal heat at 5' below grade maintaining the greenhouse at this temperature. A 4 channel data logger continuously records the greenhouse environment. The completed system was commissioned in April of 2002 and has been operating continuously since, while producing crops of peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, edible flowers, herbs and salad greens. Various issues have been identified as needing further attention, and we will be making changes to the system in the spring of 2003 to optimize the greenhouse for extreme cold. Ultimately we plan to take this technology to the far North, where communities import all their produce, as well as to cold countries facing famine such as North Korea and Mongolia.


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Ron Hale grew up on a small farm in Farmington, Missouri. He spent more than two decades as a meteorologist and oceanographer in the U. S. Navy---traveling the world, advancing his education, serving our country, and supporting his family, all with the dream of someday returning to the farmland that he loved. Hale Farms is the realization of that dream.


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Farm manager and co-owner John Marchese (pronounced 'mar-KAY-zee') is close at hand, directing traffic and taking evident pride in the chaotic pleasure of the kids. "If you’re a U-pick farmer, you have an obligation" to offer a safe, chemical-free product, he says. "You know there are going to be kids out there eating in the fields." Mondays are his slow day, but even so, streams of cars and customers, trucks and employees swirl around the farm.


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Press Release from October 21, 2006

By Auksuciai Foundation

Rotary International
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Rotary International is helping small limited resource farmers in rural Lithuania become competitive in today’s economy. In early September, Vytautas Sliupas, President of the Auksuciai Foundation, USA, presented a Matching Grants check in the amount of $13,516 to the Siauliai Rotary Club. On hand to accept the check was Prof.Vincas Laurutis, Rector of Siauliai University and immediate past president of the Siauliai Rotary Club. Contributors to the matching funds were the Rotary Clubs of Burlingame, Millbrae, Daly City/ Coloma, California, Siauliai Lithuania Club, California Rotary District 5150 and the Rotary Foundation, Evanston, Illinois.

This money will be used by the Auksuciai Farm and Forest Center in Northern Lithuania under the direction of Center Director, Larry Clement. The Center has a 57hectares (389acre) farm which conducts a year long program of research on new crops, improvement of existing crops and improved farming practices. The farm is operated under a master lease agreement with the Auksuciai Foundation, USA. All information is available at no charge to local farmers and other interested individuals. The Rotary money will be used for purchase of small equipment needed in taking care of the agricultural research plots. Use of the funds will be monitored by the Siauliai Rotary.

In July of this year, some 130 individuals from Lithuania, Germany, Denmark, Colombia and the USA were on hand for the dedication of the Jurgas Gudaitis Auksuciai Farm and Forest Center Building. Vytas Sliupas, President of the Auksuciai Foundation told the participants “This building will soon become a regional center of activities, seminars and events related to improving the life of local Lithuanian farmers and their rural communities.”

Sliupas, a long time leader in the Rotary community, said “He is pleased to see Rotary International play a role in supporting the Center’s effort to improve the life of Lithuanian farmers.” He noted that the Auksuciai Foundation supported project is the only American based, privately funded, nongovernmental organization working toward improving farmer livelihood in rural Lithuania. The Auksuciai Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation headquartered at Burlingame, Ca.


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Samappa is one of the oldest and most respected farmers of Metlakunta. Unlike many other farmers who have sold off their cattle, he has been able to hold on to his two bullocks. Since fodder production is of critical importance to his livelihood, he keeps away from hybrid varieties of pearl millet, which his cattle refuse to eat. He grows Thoka Jonna, Kakimuttani Jonna, and two other millets on his small plot.


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Leslie Radford, "The Winter Harvest of the South Central Farmers", December 20, 2006:

Perhaps, when they voted to sell the Farm to Horowitz, city council members had in mind the cartoon stereotype of a somnambulant Mexican lounging, lethargically oblivious, against the spines of a cactus, hat pulled over an unseen face--the same graphic emblazoned on developer Horowitz's letterhead. No one predicted that the Farmers would line up celebrities like John Quigley, Daryl Hannah, Julia Butterfly Hill, Joan Baez, Martin Sheen, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, and Willie Nelson to bring influential Westside liberals to their cause. No one predicted the Farmers would call up international support, not the least of which were farmers rebelling against development and its erosion of traditional life--commonly dubbed "progress"--in Atenco, Mexico. And no one predicted that young people from across the Los Angeles, unjaded by political "realities," would risk incarceration for the Farmers.


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Trish Allen is a New Zealander who has always been interested in organic food production and nutrition - using in-season, unprocessed vegetables and fruit, grown sustainably. Trish works part-time in a local pottery and tileworks and is also a permaculture teacher.


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Diggers' Mirth manages a total of just under 10 acres of Intervale land, putting half in cover crops each year to build organic matter and restore fertility and dedicating the balance to production. In addition to farmers' markets, they sell to restaurants, through the Deep Root Organic Cooperative, and to a handful of wholesale accounts, including Burlington's City Market, Healthy Living, and the Shelburne Supermarket. "We're really lucky in Vermont that the people understand the idea of local versus California," says De Santis. Ultimately, it's customer demand that keeps local grocery stores committed to buying from local farmers.


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A father of eight living in Fayoum Governorate, Bakry is typical of the 34 percent of Egypt's labor force that works in agriculture. He owns eight acres of reclaimed desert, which he used to irrigate by flooding - an inefficient use of resources that led to reduced yields. He grew the traditional crops of wheat, maize and clover, which satisfied his family and livestock needs, and sold whatever was left for a very small or even no profit.


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We grow fruit and vegetables, mostly vegetables, all grown with natural methods, no harmful pesticides or chemicals. We also take great care to replenish the soil with nutrients and organic matter so the produce will have plenty of nutrients to give our members "Healthy Food for Healthy Families."


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He has three sons and he has a small land in his village where he planned some olive trees. When we asked him what he thinks about occupation, and how Israelis tried to push him out from his land, he said it has always been like this under occupation but we will stay in this land to fight against occupation till we get our freedom


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This area of South Carolina was in total cotton production around the turn of the century and after years of monoculture the soils remain stripped and poor in organic matter. Why bother to farm on that, you wonder. Well, it begins with a seed (a seed of thought planted in a fertile imagination). It proceeds to a philosophy, organic and sustainable. It comes to fruition in deed (honey, would you drive to Alaska and pick up those two Dexter cows for sale in the bulletin)! In a society of immediate gratification, we have by choice truly stepped back into the last century. But oh, what a journey!

Clark & Katherine Mizell


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Crescent Ridge Dairy is a 44-acre family-run dairy operation just outside Boston, MA. The farm has been producing and directly selling milk to local residents since the late 1800s. Once surrounded by other farms and open space, Crescent Ridge is now hemmed in by encroaching housing developments.


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يامن رامي فلاح نشيط في العقد الرابع من عمره يملك قطعة ارض في قرية سالم القريبة من نابلس يزرع في هذه الأرض الحمضيات والخضار التي يصرف أنتاجها في المدينة أو المناطق المحيطة به, يحاول يامن كما قال أن يؤمن لعائلتة لقمة العيش في ظل الظروف الصعبة التي يعيش فيها الشعب الفلسطيني لكن في المقابل قال لنا أنه ينقصه الدعم الحكومي الذي يؤمن له الطرق السليمة في الزراعة والحصاد


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Elmwood Stock Farm is a multi-generational family farm producing a wide variety of crops and livestock. The Bell family, long-time farmers of Black Angus cattle and burley tobacco, began to diversify about ten years ago as a way to help the farm survive. When Ann came home from college, she began raising vegetables for retail sale at farmers’ markets in Georgetown and Lexington. Her brother, John, focused on raising vegetables on a larger scale for wholesale markets.


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We remember those early (before children!) years as particularly fulfilling from a personal growth point of view. We were able to grow, in one good year, 250kg (550lbs) of raw unprocessed food from our 75sq.m (800sq.ft), the equivalent of 33 tonnes of food per hectare (13.5 tonnes per acre). Most of it was annuals grown with every intercropping, stacking and season-extending method we had to hand.


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Hasana carries a squash on her head and remembers the drought.


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Arsino Zako, the proud owner of ten cows and heifers, is the president of a women’s dairy cooperative in a small village in central Albania. She recalls that “we were all milk maids during the communist regime when we worked seven days a week from 3am in the morning to sundown. When communism fell, we were given one cow and one heifer.” With little dairy production or business knowledge and limited livestock, the women were hardly able to manage a meager existence selling their milk.


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Father of two Johnston Chreruoyot is one such member, having decided to devote his time exclusively to beekeeping since receiving training from the outreach programme.

‘I have 10 hives occupied at present, but with the skills I learned on an artisan course at Baraka I have a further seven which are waiting to attract swarms. When my hives are all occupied I believe that it can provide a good livelihood for myself and for my family’, he said.


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What started as a desire to cure her daughter's
nagging eye infection, has taken a different
but more beneficial twist for 54 year old Oripa
Nyani. Born in Pote Runhanga Village in the
Goromonzi area of Mashonaland East Province about
40 kilometers from the capital city Harare, she is
married with six children. First, she had to overcome the negative stigma
associated with a woman who engages in carpentry,


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Description of the operational model: We produce honey via beekeeping and pack for different uses including eye drops, which we sell directly and also through distributors who had been educated on the dosage and mode of administering the honey eye drops. I personally handle cases that require reinforcement of honey with other bee products relevant for the care of the eyes. Apart from help to make the honey eye drops accessible to poor people with eye problems and who cannot afford conventional treatment, the distributors make some money selling this product.


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Sir William Angus•Bruce and Jason Conover
Craryville, NY

Sir William Angus is the royalty of Valley Farmers. On the 1000 acres of the Rassweiler Farm are raised some of the finest Angus seedstock in the nation, the source of the best Angus anywhere. We are pleased that the Conovers have allocated a portion of their annual bull harvest to Valley Farmers customers. Most of their animals have gone to New York City restaurants, and they are all clamoring for more. Because the farm raises such a diversity of forages and feeds, they are able to provide their grass fed stock a mix of haylege, alfalfa, sorgum and clover hay. In the summer the stock are on pastures that stretch to the horizon.


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Olmo Apiaries is a family based operation. We average between 1,500-2,000 hives, depending on the season. All of our honey is raw, natural and pure, we wouldn't have it any other way. We pollinate is almost anything you can think of that grows in valley. We also pollinate along the coast of Watsonville, Northern Idaho, Montana and Wahington. Not only do we harvest the honey, we also make many different items from the beeswax. Such as beeswax candles, creams, soaps, lip balm, etc.


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Coleman River Farms is a small family owned and operated farm located between Clayton and Hiawasee,GA. We grow a large variety of vegetables and fruits. All of our produce is grown organically, with a focus on building a self sustainable farm.


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Allen, a basketball player turned organic farmer turned entrepreneur turned community activist, runs something of a living laboratory on the two-acre plot near the city’s northern border. Each year, he leads hundreds of visitors—university agronomists, neighborhood gardeners, inner-city school kids—through the five greenhouses and small plots he maintains. And the third greenhouse, where he keeps the soil, is always the showstopper. While the other greenhouses are choked with verdant life, the soil room is comparatively open and still, a long, bright corridor where, at first glance, it seems nothing is happening.


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From the Local Harvest website:
We are a small family operated/owned certified organic farm. We raise many varieties of seasonal produce with heirloom variety tomatoes being our specialty. We also raise Tunis sheep and offer both whole lamb as well as cuts.


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ACA -- Asociacion Comunitaria de Autosuficiencia A.C.

From the website: The project was conceived and initiated by the project directors, Wendee Hill and Marie Pruden, an experienced horticulturist and community organizer. Hill and Pruden were called to Mexico in 1992 to work as instructors in the Lake Chapala area through the auspices of the Catholic diocese of McKenzie, N.W.T., Canada.

In 1994 they were asked by the Catholic priest in the village of Nestipac to facilitate the opening of a community center offering classes in gardening, health and nutrition.

In August of 1996 Hill and Pruden started planning an independent, self sustaining horticultural project that would be accessible to a wider rural and urban population, one that would prepare youths, families and farmers from many Mexican communities (regardless of their religious affiliation or locality), with training in organic farming, food production, and water and environmental conservation.


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From the farmtotable website:
“I know of no line of work as pleasing as watching things grow from seed to sale.”


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يمنة عبد الله مواطنة فلسطينية من قرية سالم و البالغة من العمر 30 عاما تزرع نبات الفقوس و اللذي يشبه إلى حد كبير نبات الكوسا ويشبه في طعمه نبات الخيار حيث انه يستخدم للأكل كما هو و كذلك يستخدم في إعداد محشي الفقوس مع اللبن و اللذي يعتبر من أشهى المأكولات المنتشرة في نابلس و المدن الأخرى حيث يتناولها الناس على و جبة الغداء و تبيع يمنة الكميات الزائدة عن حاجتها للسوق حيث تباع بأسعار مناسبة لكنها تكون مرتفعة في بعض المواسم و يعتبر الفقوس من الخضروات الصيفية


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Mike and Cindy have been farming since they first came to Stanfordville in 19
Their children are now grown, but they still raise litters of pigs and both egg-laying hens and broilers and roasters. A few cows traverse the pastures in rotation with the pastured chickens, a clutch of lambs and some stray pigs. Most of the hogs wallow in a low muck particularly enjoyed by hogs in summer while others enjoy the coolness of the barn.
Pigs and chickens are fed an organic feed, the pigs get goat’s milk, apples and Cindy’s vegetables.


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Thalgi Othman from Awarta Village is a farmer who grow just the figs trees because he like it more than the other trees because it gives him a lot of the fruits like one hundred fruit fore the tree which he use them for a lot of things like sale them in the market with high prices and to put some of them in the sun until it become dry and sale it with a high prices too because it used in the sweats and it has a sweaty flavor to eat and Thalgi is very happy with his trees and his work and he will keep his land for ever!


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Our choice of operating a small, organic farm comes from our desire to live in a way that is ethical and sustainable and to do things to improve our community. We’ve attempted to evolve Blue Skies Farm into what we believe a small farm would have been like 75 years ago or like small farms we’ve seen in Europe.

Like those farms, much of the work here is hand work, including the seeding, hoeing and harvesting. In addition, rather than fostering the agri-entertainment concept that so many pick-your-own berry farms have, Blue Skies offers only an opportunity to step back for "An outing at the Farm” of picking berries, enjoying sitting in the shade, tossing a stick for the dog and being unhurried for a morning or afternoon.


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While RecipeSource may be one of the newest recipe sites on the Internet, we're also one of the oldest. Our collection was started in 1993 by Jennifer Snider when she discovered the wonders of Usenet newsgroups & Internet mailing lists as a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She started saving recipes posted to those sources and soon amassed thousands of recipes. When her friends found out about the collection, we encouraged her to put them on the web, and she agreed, provided we helped her. After several months of hard work, the recipes first appeared on the web in 1995 as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes. From our start with around 10,000 recipes we've grown the collection to 7 times that size, and had our pages accessed millions of times from around the world. Thanks to our popularity, we've outgrown our original home, so we've moved the collection here to RecipeSource.com, where we hope it will continue to grow, while providing better response time and a better search engine than our old site.

The current RecipeSource Team is:

- Jennifer Snider Coopersmith
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- Elaine Chao

Please remember these are all volunteers, donating their spare time to the project.


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Film director Taggart Siegel about the hero of his film "The Real Dirt on Farmer John":

I met John at Beloit College in 1979. John invited me to his farm and I was so amazed with the commune-like situation that I moved there for the summer. Art and agriculture thrived on the farm as I made my first film, Affliction, starring Farmer John.

Bitter Harvest charts the farm debt crisis of the 1980s through John Peterson’s personal story. What made you decide to go back to John’s farm and pick up where you left off?

In 1982, John's farm was caving in. I made my first documentary, Bitter Harvest, about the plight of his family farm. I decided to make another documentary on John's life in 1996 to capture the miraculous resurrection of his family farm. I knew I had hours and hours of archival footage so my goal was to create a rich and celebratory film of an individual fighting the odds and transforming his family farm into an economic, organic farm.


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Named after her great grandmother, Kathy Margaret Carlston Lindner and her husband Ken, proudly bring you top quality grassfed bison as a delicious and healthful red meat alternative to Great-grandma Carlston’s beef.

Lindner Bison forage on native grasses, pretty much as they always did and are free of questionable drugs or hormones. Naturally lower in fat and cholesterol, higher in protein, bison is incredibly delicious, with a flavor similar to beef.


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In 1941, long before anyone had heard of mega-farms or agri-corporations, Nana and Papa Osofsky started a small dairy farm, naming it for their eldest son, Ronny. Today, our extended family of kids and cows continues to work those same lovely Hudson Valley pastures. We make milk products the way we have for three generations, in small batches, delivered at peak freshness, pasteurized and hormone free. Through this farm, we like to think we keep Nana and Papa's spirit alive. Through these products, we hope to keep a small piece of America alive.


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مروة أبو سمرة 36عاما من قرية عزون قرب نابلس تزرع أرضها بالجزر و الذي يعتبر من الخضروات اللتي لا تكثر زراعنها في فلسطين لإنها تحتاج إلى كمية كبيرة من الماء وكذلك عناية خاصة و أدوية زراعية غالية الثمن لإبقائها على قيد الحياة في جو فلسطين الغير مناسب نسبيا لزراعتها لكنها خضار محببة للفلسطينين و يستخدمونها في العديد من الأكلات الفلسطينية في التزيين مع عدم نسيان مذاقها الحلو فهي تعتبر من الفواكه أيضا تقدم إلى الضيوف في المناسبات


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"When growing for the high-quality niche, choose superior varieties and then grow to maximize flavor, not yield."
Brett and Christine grow organically certified fruits, vegetables, flowers and poultry on a 104-acre farm in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Crops include heirloom tomatoes, okra, watermelons, winter greens, herbs, winter squashes, strawberrries, mushrooms, cut flowers, eggs and poultry. As certified organic farmers, Brett and Christine consider cover crops, crop rotations, tillage, mowing, black plastic and manual labor to be important components of production.


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Devorah Brous, founder and director of BUSTAN, a partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers. The mission of BUSTAN is to reverse environmental degradation and the rural landscape in Israel-Palestine which has been partially caused by continued territorial war and occupation as well as unsustainable economic development.

What caught my eye is that BUSTAN is incorporating integrated waste to energy designs that incorporate the use of biogas digestors. The discovery of the advantages of biogas seems to be continuing to gain ground with some even incorporating biogas waste recovery systems into complete ecological agriculture/permaculture designs.

We also see in regards to the more holistic design of the programs and organizational structures which complement the ecologically designed systems and technologies. BUSTAN’s current focuses are creating a green building health clinic, biogas digestors, and desert ecology learning sites and the programs mentioned below seem to indicate a comprehensive approach to the issue of ecological degradation that cuts across social, cultural, political, economic and ecological issues.

The overall theme is to revitalize desert traditions for building, planting, and public health while merging them with sustainable principles:

* Regenerating desert ecology;
* learning sites that apply permaculture principles;
* mapping health hazards;
* Waste-to-energy biofuels;
* Solar power insead as alternative to oil-shale development in the Negev.

Devorah holds a masters degree in Israel Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, with a concentration in conflict resolution. In challenging places, such as in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the ability to get anything substantive done with regards to sustainability require a strong ability to negotiate past challenging people and situations.


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"Tapech (irrigating the crop field for the first time) and buteech (irrigating the field for the second time) are the most difficult tasks… In tapech the crop field is carefully planted and a small quantity of water is guided [through the infant crops] in such a way that all the plants are irrigated and no (infant) plant is de-rooted… Then for the second time the field is carefully watered and when the course is set for the watering…then there is no more difficulty for watering the fields."


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Our apple and peach orchards are designed to provide a continuous supply of fresh tree-ripened fruit starting in mid-July with peaches and ending in November with apples. Different varieties of both fruits ripen at intervals throughout the season. This means fresh fruit is always available.


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Our philosophy is to be stewards of the land in the most ecological way possible. We use farming methods that build the fertility of the soil, such as organic fertilizers and biodynamically made compost. Pest management is achieved through cultural practices and biological and botanically-based materials.


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After that Velasquez, Hoey and several co-op workers piled into two pickups for a trip down a dusty road to the home of Rigoberto Lopez, 50, a farmer who had received 10 beehives from Heifer and would soon plant 50 guama tree seedlings. "I have two objectives," he said, "the bees get a lot of nectar for honey and it provides shade for the coffee."

Once again the group suited up for a short hike into the bushes to look at Lopez' beehives nestled in a grove of shade-grown coffee. After a dose of smoke from the humidor to calm the bees, Lopez pried open the top of the first hive and reached in with his bare hands to withdraw a frame looking for the queen. Lopez just shrugs when asked why he doesn't wear gloves.


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Kamel Saleem, is a farmer from Zeita village, near Tulkarm. He has a small land on which he grows strawberries. Many people like strawberry and he can sell it with better price than other products.
But the problem is that strawberries need much more care than other products. His land is too small and he can't produce enough strawberry to export and there are very few farmers who produce strawberry in their lands. If he can get financial support from the government and buy some more lands, he can grow more strawberries. He hopes he will get governmental supports to develop more lands to cultivate strawberry.


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Amid an industrial landscape on a reclaimed coastland, a Natural Agriculture farmer mellows his soil with care

Nobuaki Nakayasu has it far worse than most farmers, cramped on his small plot in a suburban nightmare. Yet gradually and patiently over the past 6 years, a farm has bloomed in Himeji.

This hope comes because Nakayasu has found a way to see what tools he has. Even in this most industrial setting, the land has a life that can instruct anyone who bothers to be a student. And he has done just that.


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Stan Scott Schutte has been farming his 200 acres in south central Illinois for 30 years and his farm slogan says it all: “We Grow Taste.” At Triple S Farm the goal is to raise the best tasting, highest quality meats and produce without using drugs and chemicals. All the pastures are certified organic and all the animals are drug free since 1998. The produce is certified organic, the poultry is free range and no GMO grains are used. For Stan it is all about the farm philosophy: Animals are what they eat. They are fed only healthy grains. The all vegetarian diet produces a healthier, tastier finished product.


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For Carol and Baxter Adams, adding value to their apple crop was a natural. "When you have apples, you've got to have apple pies," says Carol. As well as apple cider and applesauce, apple turnovers and apple muffins, apple rings and apple butter, apple jams and apple jellies... well, you get the picture. Altogether, the Adamses produce 33 different products from apples, and numerous other items compatible with their orcharding.

Soon after they began producing apples, they started hosting an annual party in this tiny town--celebrating the apple harvest with crafts, food, and entertainment. Now their party has become a major festival promoted throughout the state.


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Dr. Deckelbaum is the author of over 200 articles, reviews and chapters, including a text book entitled Preventive Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide to Health Professionals now in its 3rd edition. He is the recipient of numerous research grants and serves a variety of advisory boards for nutrition and clinical research. In 1996, building upon his record of collaborative research with Ben-Gurion University, he developed the collaboration between Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Columbia University, from which developed the Medical School for International Health. Dr. Deckelbaum has served as a member of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and chaired an international March of Dimes Task Force on Nutrition and Optimal Human Development, and is part of a RAND Task Force on “Strengthening the Palestinian Health System”


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Cabbage Hill Farm is extremely dedicated to saving rare breeds, growing and raising healthy food, and educating others about the future of healthy, sustainable agricultural and aquaponic systems


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Having to support a family of eight, Mr. Phiri turned to the only two things he had, a three hectare family landholding and the Bible. He didn't use the Bible only for spiritual guidance or inspiration, he also used it as a gardening manual.


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MY FOOD STORY ABOUT ARTEMISIA
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KABALE farmers are reaping big from growing the artemisia plant. Artemisia is the plant where artemisinin is extracted, which is used in the production of the Antimicilin Combination Therapy (ACT). The treatment is commonly used in Uganda as Coartem.
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Christopher Katungi, a farmer of Nyabushabi sub-county started growing the plant last year. He has so far planted three acres of the plant. Katungi said he received free seedlings from Afro Alpine Pharma Limited.

He said he got sh1m from the first harvest season in March, adding that the plant takes between four to five months to mature.

Henry Beine, another farmer in Kyananura sub-county, started growing the plant in January and hopes to harvest in April.

“I expect to earn between sh700,000 and sh1000,000 this season and I plan to increase the acreage,” he said.

Joshua Katukiza, a farmer in Kamuganguzi, said many farmers have embarked on growing the plant because they are given free seedlings. It takes a short time to mature and it does not require a lot of start-up capital, which makes it very profitable.

“More so, there is ready market for the produce and payment is prompt,” he said. He added that before the introduction of artemisia, many farmers used to grow sorghum. He said artemisia is more profitable because it is harvested twice a year.

Afro Alpine Pharma factory has established nursery beds in six sub-counties in the district, from where farmers can access free seedlings.

The firm also established a factory in the area to extract artemisinin from the leaves of artemisia. The factory has also boosted the growing of the artemisia plant in the district. The firm buys a kilo of artemisia at sh1,000.

Chairman of Afro Alpine Pharma factory, Charles Mbire, said the plant does well in cool places. Mbire said that over 5,000 farmers in Kabale district are directly gaining from the introduction of the plant.
Other districts that grow the plant include Ibanda, Mbarara and Kabale and these are all from western part of Uganda
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For over twenty-five years we have dedicated our lives to the ongoing process of nurturing the microbial life in our soil, thereby growing healthy crops for our cows and processing their milk into North America's purest and best tasting organic yogurt. We don't use antibiotics, hormones, herbicides or pesticides, so commonplace in the modern dairy farming. Instead, we promote life and health at all levels. We choose not to participate in the gross commercialization practiced by the present day food industry. We want to remain a small one-farm operation. Thank you for your continued support.


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In 1996 Japhet from Kenya had just one local goat and was struggling to make a living. He heard about FARM-Africa’s Goat Project and took his goat to be serviced by a Toggenburg buck. His life changed - six years later what was once one goat is now nine!


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"I've had a very good year," says Burt Tietje, a crawfish farmer in Roanoke, La. "There have been a lot of producers knocked out because of the storm. And I'm kind of like Forrest Gump -- I'm the last man standing. So I'm reaping the benefits of high demand and a plentiful product."

Prices for live crawfish, which have nearly doubled this year, certainly add to Tietje's good cheer. But there's more to this business than the bottom line.


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The first blueberry bushes were planted over 50 years ago by "Butch" Emery. A lot has changed since then, but not the spirit of growing blueberries on this land! We currently farm over 25 acres of USDA Certified Organic Blueberries and over an acre of Raspberries. We have planted pumpkins for a few years now and are increasing the acerage we plant each year. Sue Marchese has fun all day in the Farm Market and Bakery. The amazing baked goods Sue and her helper turn out of there will make your sences very happy!!


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How the Farm to City CSA Program Works: Farm to City provides a range of services to CSA farmers, and charges a percentage of the share price based upon those requested by the various farmers. For example, Farm to City works with the farmer to define the CSA, including how many shares can be provided and for what cost, what crops will be included in the share, how long the season will be, payment systems, and other issues. Farm to City then recruits CSA shareholders for the farms.


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"No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan. This article has been made possible by the Foundation for National Progress, the Investigative Fund of Mother Jones, and gifts from generous readers like you.

"No, I don't think you understand. I don't believe it's sustainable—'organic,' if you will—to FedEx meat all around the country," Joel told me. "I’m afraid if you want to try one of our chickens, you're going to have to drive down here to pick it up."

Joel, who describes himself as a "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer," speaks of his farming as his "ministry," and certainly his 1,000 or so regular customers hear plenty of preaching. Each spring he sends out a long, feisty, single-spaced letter that could convince even a fast-food junkie that buying a pastured broiler from Polyface Farm qualifies as an act of social, environmental, nutritional, and political redemption.


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Tony Thompson farms 3500 acres in southwest Minnesota growing corn, soybeans and a variety of other crops including rye, buckwheat, sunflower, alfalfa, winter wheat and oats.


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EDUCATION THROUGH HANDS-ON LEARNING, DISCUSSIONS, AND PRACTICE are the core of farm life. Doug Flack and farm family share their knowledge through internships, farm work opportunities, classes and farm tours.


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Just beyond the northern suburbs of Memphis--amid fields of cotton and soybeans, forested creeks and new housing developments--lies a small family farm owned by Alvin and Shirley Harris. From the quiet road out front, Harris Farms looks like a sleepy, semi-tropical estate with banana plants, elephant ears and beds of flowers flourishing under the giant oak and native pecan trees. But up close, the farm is buzzing with constant activity.


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KAZARIE Worm farm is owned and operated by myself, Dan Warco. I work a full time job outside my home and devote evenings and weekends to the worm business. I try to provide a quality product at a reasonable price. Thank you for your interest and possible business.


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Mohammed and Maua used their first seaweed profits to build a second home. Now, they rent out their first house and use the rent to support their children’s schooling. Their next target is to use the $22 from seaweed income they make each month for electricity and a freezer. With the wiring in place, they expect to turn on their lights soon. As for the freezer, they optimistically reply, “We think we’ll have saved enough by next month.”

The electricity will allow Maua to add a juice stall to her porch, and with the freezer, Mohammed can store bigger catches of fish for longer. Their next big goal is to buy a motorbike, so that Mohammed can get to work faster. He has been cycling for two hours each day to the local market along sand roads for the last 15 years. With a motorbike, he will carry more fish and cover more markets. For Mohammed and Maua, the days of subsistence thinking are long gone.


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صادق جاسم مزارع من قرية مرده القريبة من نابلس يملك قطعة أرض مزروعه بأشجار الزيتون التي يستغل ثمارها أما بتحويلها الى زيت الزيتون او بتحويله الى مخلل يقوم ببيعها في سوق المدينة , والسبب في ذلك أن معظم أهل القرية يملكون شجر زيتون وبالتالي لديهم اكتفاء ذاتي , يقول لنا صادق أنه في كل عام يحصل عرس في فلسطين يسمى عرس قطاف الزيتون , فهو بمناسبة مناسبة فرحه يجتمع فيها الناس بالرغم من بعض المنغصات التي قد يكون للأحتلال طرف فيها


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Marvin and Ruth Duhn raise both crops and sheep on their 117 acre farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Driven by a longstanding interest in holistic health, their farming philosophy is intertwined with a commitment to the health of humans and the environment. Out of concern about the number of petroleum-based chemicals and plastic products used in conventional agriculture, Marvin and Ruth switched to organic production.


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مصطفى رامي صاحب مزرعة للدواجن في قرية بيت فوريك شرق نابلس يقوم بتربية الدجاج كي يستفيد من بيضه ولحمه حيث يقوم ببيعه لأهل المدينة التى يقطع مسافة قصيرة نسبياً بالكيلومترات لكنها طويله مقياساً بالوقت والسبب كما قال لنا هو الأحتلال الأسرائيلي , حيث وبسبب الحواجز فأنه يتأخر كل يوم في أنتظار سماح قوات الأحتلال له بالعبور ببضاعتة الى المدينة وقال لنا أنه يأمل أن تنتهي هذه المعاناه بأقرب وقت ممكن


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Kate Blewett and Brian Woods: Professor Kevin Bales from the UN Working Group on Contemporary Slavery notes one crucial difference in the slaves of today: "In the old days slaves were expensive you kept them for their whole lives, you took care of them. Today they are cheap, there is a glut of slaves and when you've used them you throw them away if you don't want them any more - they're disposable."


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عمر راضي جمعة من منطقة الفارعة و البالغ من العمر32 عاما مواطن له خبرة في مجال النحل حيث يتوجه إلى بعض المغارات القريبة من بلدته و المليئة بأعشاش النحل و يقوم بقطع تلك الخلايا و إستخراج العسل منها و بيعه بأثمان عالية لأنه عسل بري يفضله الناس على العسل المنتج من المزارع المتخصصة بالنحل حيث يعتقد الناس أن معظمه مغشوش وذلك بإحتوائه على كميات اكبر من السكر و اللذي يجب ان يكون موجودا بنسب معينة و يحصل عمر بذلك على دخل إضافي بالإضافة إلى عمله في مجالات أخرى كتسويق بعض البضائع في بلدته


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Both Chuck and Mary were raised on farms in Henry County, and Chuck says he knew farming was all he'd ever want to do. Mary wasn't as certain early on, but now says she can't imagine another or better way to live. Soon after they moved onto the farm in 1982, they developed a long-term strategy to certify much of their acreage as organic.


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Arman returned home to Tsaghkunk village where he got married and started a family. Sheep breeding is their only source of income. “We cover our daily expenses by selling the eight litres of milk that we get from 11 sheep.


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نسرين الداعور (35) عاما مواطنة من مدينة جنين تعمل في الحقول الزراعية من حيث جمع المحاصيل و الإعتناء بالنباتات للحصول على المال اللازم لأسرتها المتوسطة الحجم حيث تعيش مع أم زوجها المريضة اللتي بحاجة إلى الكثير من الأموال للعلاج و زوجها لا يستطيع جني المال اللازم لذلك وحده لذا تقوم هي بمساعدته و أولاده أيضا حيث يقومون ببعض الأعمال البسيطة بعد المدرسة


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The Farm covers 600 Acres, with 250 head of beef cattle. On the Average we have about 100 pigs, 400 laying hens and 600 meat birds a year. For the Holiday season we grow about 150 turkeys. The farm consists of 13 acre vegetable production, to provide for our Community Supported Agriculture program.


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Doug has been farming since 1976 when he decided to bring the techniques of grass farming that he had observed in New Zealand, as a scientist in ecology, to a small plot of land in Enosburg Falls, Vermont. From the start, Doug kept his academic values of environmental stewardship close to home and combined them with a core belief that farming is a spiritual endeavor - a combination that led to many innovations and experimentations on his farm


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Holly Machin of Indian extraction. Worked in Govinder's tea shop. She did this as it was more inclusive as vegetarian and indian culturally than the meat place next door.
Holly is a vegetarian. Holly saw Govinder's as non violent.


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Prasong Seesa-Ard has 12 rai of land in
Surin, “the Green Province” of Thailand.
He’s been farming for 48 years – his entire
life, and lives with his 15 year old daughter
who has a passion for preserving seeds,
and a wife who is involved in maintaining
and diversifying their garden.
Organic farming was a family tradition until
1966, when advertisements marketing
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Our family owned, certified organic farm is located in northern Baltimore County . We pride ourselves in our crop diversity and the quality of food we produce on our farm. Heirloom and open pollinated vegetables are our preferred seed stock. No genetically altered seeds, plants, or materials are used on our farm.


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فايز محمود مزارع من قرية سالم الواقعة الى الشرق من مدينة نابلس شاب في منتصف الثلاثين من عمره يعمل في أرضه في زراعة الزيتون وجني ثمارة في موسم الحصاد , يعتاش على محصول الزيتون الذي يزرعة في أرضه يقول فايز عند مقابلته لنا أنه ورث هذه الأرض عن أبائه وأجداده وأنه يعمل في هذه المهنه منذ نعومة اظفارة وأضاف أيضا ً أن زراعة الزيتون تعتبر جزءاً لا يتجزء من عاداتنا وتقاليدنا السائدة في فلسطين.


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Crooked Sky Farms maintains several farm plots around the Phoenix area, strategically located to provide a variety of growing conditions. This allows us to farm throughout the year. Crooked Sky’s home base is an 18.75-acre plot on Bethany Home Road and 83rd Avenue. Farmer Frank has two hoop green houses used to start plants like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants during early spring. When the temperatures start to heat up, he takes off the plastic and puts up a shade cloth to provide protection to crops like lettuces. Since the green houses aren’t sealed all year round, there are few pest problems.


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Lee Roversi and her three children, Sky, Nell and Bay, are the creative forces behind the farm and its businesses. They are committed to the conscious intention behind the founding of North Country Farms.


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أياد روحي مزارع من قرية قوسين القريبة من نابلس يملك قطعة أرض صغيرة يزرعها بشجر الزيتون ويساعدها بأعمال العناية فيها اليومية أولاده الأربعة ,سألنا أياد ما الذي يجعل زراعة الزيتون في فلسطين منتشرة اكثر كم غيرها فأجابنا بالقول , أن السبب واضح وجلي فزراعة الزيتون في بلاد الشام عموماً وفي فلسطين خصوصاً فهي مهنة توارثناها عن أجدادنا وآبائنا لذلك فأننا نتبع خطى أجدادنا ونعلم اولادنا على هذه المهنة


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FOUR WINDS FARM is a 24 acre diversified organic farm located in Gardiner, in southern Ulster County, of which 4 acres are used to grow vegetables, primarily heirloom and open pollinated varieties for better flavor and for seed saving. The remainder is used to raise lamb, beef and egg laying chickens, which supply us generously with natural fertilizer. Our farm-generated manure compost allows us to grow vegetables using a method that is very different from conventional farms. Our garden space is NEVER plowed or rototilled. We grow our vegetables in permanently formed beds, some of which have been in place for 10 years.


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رائد حسنين المولود عام 1939م و الذي يعمل كسائق شاحنة خضار تعمل على جمع الخضروات من قرى القطاع و توزيعها على مدن قطاع غزة وهو سعيد الآن بعد إنسحاب قوات الإحتلال من القطاع بسبب ما كان يعانيه من الحواجز التي إنتشرت لسنين عدة في القطاع و هو يأمل أن يتحسن الوضع الأمني في المستقبل لإن رداءة الوضع الأمني تؤئر سلبا على عمله وهو يعتقد أن عمله كان أفضل قبل الإنتفاضة و ذلك أنه كان يجمع كميات أكبر من الخضروات من قرى القطاع أما الآن فهو لا يكاد يجمع نصف ما كان يجمعه في السابق و ذلك لتجريف سلطات الإحتلال العديد من الأراضي الزراعية و البيوت البلاستيكية و التي تعتبر عماد الثروة الزراعية في القطاع


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In 1986, when Duane Errett and his wife Vickie had their second child, the decision was made: the family farm would now be chemical-free, “I just decided that I was going to start doing something about it because there was no sense in having [my daughters] exposed to it. I had chemicals on my clothes and was bringing them into the house. So I started thinking more seriously about it.”


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ام حاتم حمزة المولودة في قرية تل عام 1938م تملك أرضا زراعية تقع غرب القرية غير بعيدة عنها وهي تزرع العديد من المحاصيل مثل الكرسنه والحمص والفول والعدس والفقوس كل في موسمه وتقوم بالعنايه بالمحاصيل بمساعدة زوجها وابنائها وهي تملك حمارا تستخدمه للتنقل في القريه وكذلك في حراثة الارض ونقل ما تجنيه من محاصيل الى بيتها وتحديدا الى غرفة صغيرة خصصتها لحفظ المحاصيل لحين تجهيزها للبيع ثم بيعها بسوق مدينة نابلس القريبة منها وهي بذلك تساعد في الإنفاق على أسرتها ذات الإحتياجات الكثيرة كأي أسرة اخرى تعاني نفس الظروف الصعبة اللتي يعانيها شعبنا الصامد


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Chuck is raising pigs for Valley Farmers. The pigs are in large pens, live outside all summer, and get plenty of room to forage. They are fed organic feed and a supply of fruit from the orchards. Pigs love apples.


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Date Creek Ranch is a working cattle ranch, over 120 years old, currently run by Phil Knight and his family. Located twenty-two miles northwest of Wickenburg, off Highway US 93, on picturesque Date Creek, the ranch headquarters, first built in 1883, enjoys a riparian setting of cottonwoods and willow and home to a wide variety of wildlife.


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أيمن رزق مزارع من قرية تل الواقعة الى الغرب من مدينة نابلس يملك قطعة أرض يزرعها بأشجار الزيتون التي كما يقول تزين أنحاء منزله فهو يشعر براحة كبيره كما وصفها لنا حين يستيقظ كل صباح ويشتم النسيم العليل الذي يكون معطر برائحة شجر الزيتون , يقول لنا أيمن أن لا شيئ يضاهي تراب وطنك وأنه مستعد لفعل أي شيئ لكي لا يفرط بحبة رمل واحد من تراب أرضه وبلده فلسطين


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The gardens must be watered. The ground is layers upon layers of limestone. A trench is carved and the vegetables planted along the sides, heavy with compost to balance the pH level. The trenches are watered and filled a few times a week. The water comes from pipes that used to serve neighboring communities before reservoirs made them obsolete. When Amnon and Dalia arrived, they made a contract with the water company and redirected the piping. By 10 a.m. the water is boiling from the sun. "Maybe we'll bury the pipes in the ground, once upon a time," Amnon tells me, unconvincingly.


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Abu Mohammad Eshtayyeh is a farmer from Til village which sit at the west of Nablus in the west bank he is 68 years old and he has six childrenï؟½s three boys and four girls and he has four lands in a different situations in the village.

At the beginning of our conversations he told me he has 150 olive trees in a three of his lands but the fourth one has no trees because it is near a settlement in the west of the village and he is afraid to go there because they will shot him if they saw him near the settlement.

After that he took me in a tour to his lands to take some photos, I asked him at the way who buys your crops? He answered ï؟½that he donï؟½t sail his products to the market but for his family use and may be he sail some of it to his friends in Nablus.

When we arrived to his first land I asked him if he grow another kinds of crops and he answered ï؟½no I donï؟½t because if I grow tomatoes for example it wants a lot of water and a special kinds of chemicals thatï؟½s means a lot of costs and I donï؟½t like to use chemicals too!

And if he cares about the new agricultural informationï؟½s he told me that he has the enough informationï؟½s from his experiment as a farmer and from his father and from his grand father too and he donï؟½t trust the new ways or the new tools specially the ones which used to collect the fruits because it heart the trees and those trees as his sons and he love them more than his real sons ï؟½ and he is still use his donkey instead of the new machines and the machete to cut the grass and the other ordinary old tools.

And about the government he told me that there arenï؟½t any kinds of supports from it and there isnï؟½t any community which cares about them too!
By the way I asked him what kind of supports you want. He answered ï؟½I want a financial support and may be a good seeds to grow instead of the ordinary ones!

And about the relation ship between him and his land he said ï؟½I love my land more than any thing at the life and I will grow it until my death!

At the end I asked him if he wants to add any word he said ï؟½I asked the god to protect my lands and to send a lot of water for my trees and thank you very much for this exiting conversation!


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فاطمة حمدونة (29) عاما من مدينة خان يونس في قطاع غزة يملك زوجها أرضا مزروعة بنباتات الملفوف و اللتي تستخدم في إعداد بعض المأكولات و السلطات الشرقية اللذيذة حيث تعتبر أكلة الملفوف المحشي من أشهر الأكلات في مدينة نابلس و في المدن و البلدات المحيطة حيث تلف و تحشى بالارز و اللحم و الصنوبر و تبيع فاطمة و زوجها منتوجهما لأهالي المدينة عبر بيعها إلى المتاجر و الاسواق الشعبية بمبالغ لا بأس بها مع ما يعانيانه في العناية بها حيث أنها بحاجة إلى الري بشكل دائم و بكميات كبيرة من الماء


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أحمد علي ربايعة من قرية بيت دجن و البالغ من العمر 25 عاما يعمل في مطعم لتقديم الوجبات السريعة حيث يقدمون من خلاله بعض المأكولات الفلسطسنية المشهورة كالمسخن و المعجنات بأنواعها و هم يستخدمون الأجبان المنتجة محليا و كذلك الزعتر البلدي الاخضر و كذلك السبانخ و البصل و غيرها من المواد الأولية فهم يفضلونها على المستوردة لأنها موثوقة المصدر و كذلك أرخص ثمنا و هم بذلك يشجعون قطاع الزراعة المحلي الفلسطيني


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Bird Flu Conference in Mali Aims to Educate Farmers
By Phuong Tran
Fatick, Senegal
07 December 2006
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While scientists and government officials enter their second day of an international conference on the bird flu virus in Mali, one farmer in nearby Senegal continues to monitor her chickens in the rural town of Fatick. She thinks she has already done much of what experts suggest, and is now hoping for the best. Phuong Tran reports for VOA from Fatick.

Experts turned their attention to countries in Africa at the international conference on fighting the bird flu virus. Experts regard poor countries as the weakest link in the fight against the spread of the H5N1 virus.

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Far from the conference halls is Fatick, a rural town in Senegal. Here, a 50-year-old farmer checks on 300 chickens in her backyard. Tening Ngom separates her chickens by age into three coops.

Years ago, she says, she learned about bird flu. When asked if she knew what to do in case her birds were infected, she replied that yes, she has worked with a veterinarian who helped her vaccinate her birds.

But a technical advisor with Senegal's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Alioune Touré, says that there have not been any reported cases of the bird flu virus in Senegal. He says that though there has been discussion of providing farmers a bird flu vaccine, there is no immediate plan of distribution.

Touré says that the Fatick farmer may confuse the bird flu with the less deadly Newcastle disease, which produces symptoms similar to the H5N1 bird flu virus.

He reports that his department created a national action plan last year, and has set aside more than $1 million in prevention activities. Touré says that his ministry will soon reach out to farmers in a campaign to explain how bird flu virus is different and more deadly than other animal diseases.

At a meeting in Senegal in February, West African agriculture and finance ministers agreed to set up a regional observation system, and to request funds from the African Development Bank.

Women clean chickens to prepare them for a local hotel, in an outdoor market in Bamako, Mali, 6 Dec 2006

Donors are expected to discuss the request on Friday at the Mali conference. They are looking for ways to raise up to $1.5 billion, one-third of which would go to Africa to fight the spread of the virus. Some donors are advocating for a system that will compensate farmers for their losses.

The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health is working with international organizations to improve monitoring systems in Africa, where eight countries have reported the H5N1 virus.

Samba Sidibé, the organization's Africa representative, says that if the bird flu situation worsens, the economic impact will be felt throughout the production chain of poultry. He ad