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Category Archives: Food Security

How to get poverty-stricken communities to adapt to climate change

April 19, 2012 – 3:49 pm

Because the truth is, although the impact of climate change will be felt by all, the extremes will hit some harder than others. The irony is that the people and communities least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions will bear the brunt of the impacts. While this is in part due to geography, the overwhelming reason is poverty.

By Crikey | Also posted in climate change, Climate Change Policy, Global Warming | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

The festive season of waste?

December 15, 2011 – 10:27 am

Traditionally, it’s always been a time of excess. For many of us Christmas is inherently about family, presents and, importantly, food. And all of this would not be such a bad thing, if so much of it didn’t go to waste.

By Crikey | Also posted in climate change, Food | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Sinking the Top End dams and food bowl plan

September 23, 2011 – 10:37 am

Andrew Campbell, director of the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) at Charles Darwin University, writes: Here we go again. The Coalition proposal to dam rivers in northern Australia to create a massive food bowl has been floated before, as have various schemes for harvesting water from what is perceived to be the over-watered [...]

By Crikey | Also posted in Farmers Say, Federal Politics, Water | Tagged , , , | Comments (24)

Fighting for survival in Cancun

December 4, 2010 – 2:50 pm

Climate change is already affecting the lives of many of our Pacific Island neighbours. Phil Ireland caught up with Pelenise Alofa from Kiribati to hear a Pacific perspective on how the UN climate negotiations are unfolding in Cancun.

By Phillip Ireland | Also posted in Cancun: UN convention on climate change, climate change, Water | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (4)

Murray Darling murmurings

October 14, 2010 – 9:08 am

On Tuesday night I had dinner with two ex-Murray River vegetable farmers (conventional) and two owners of an organic grocery store here in Melbourne, but who grew up on the Murray. We were debating the night’s SBS Insight program Organic or Not. It was a fascinating episode, involving lots of conventional and organic farmers and [...]

By Amber Jamieson | Also posted in Murray Darling Basin, Water | Comments (11)

Organic farmers try to get a bite of the apple

August 27, 2010 – 10:26 am

With the balance of power firmly in the lands of three country Independents, regional issues are back on the national agenda. “The people of rural Australia have put some of us here. They expect a return for having done that. As far as I’m concerned, they will get a return,” said Queensland independent Bob Katter at Wednesday’s National Press Club address. But will organic farming — traditionally seen a alternative movement and now gaining a more mainstream presence — benefit from the rural attention or suffer in favour of conventional farming practises?

By Amber Jamieson | Also posted in Farmers Say | Comments (5)

Food Shortages In Australia Thanks To Anti-Farmer Free Trade and Environmental Policies

November 10, 2008 – 1:06 pm

Our current Australian anti-farmer policies coupled with a population that grows by 1 person net each 1.3 seconds will lead us to a point within 40 years where we will be a net importer of food. As the world population grows by another 2.3 billion people, food in Australia will indeed become a scarce resource. [...]

By steve truman | Also posted in Emissions Trading Scheme, Federal Politics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)