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13 Jul 09

African Agriculture: Radio, video key to agricultural innovation in Africa

  • Two-thirds of rural women creatively applied ideas illustrated by videos demonstrating improved food processing techniques compared to less than 20 percent who attended training workshops Cotonou, Benin – Conventional media, radio and video, are powerful, accessible and relevant forces of agricultural innovation and transformation in Africa than usually considered, a study published in a recent issue of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability reveals.
  • “Farmers’ innovations are often shaped by capital limitations and mainly rely on locally available resources, of which knowledge is a key one,”
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07 May 09

The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Michael Pollan, “Deep Agriculture”

  • Farming has become an occupation and cultural force of the past. Michael Pollan’s talk promoted the premise — and hope — that farming can become an occupation and force of the future.
  • The benefit of a reformed food system, besides better food, better environment and less climate shock, is better health and the savings of trillions of dollars. Four out of five chronic diseases are diet-related. Three quarters of medical spending goes to preventable chronic disease. Pollan says we cannot have a healthy population, without a healthy diet. The news is that we are learning that we cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture. And right now, farming is sick.
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