The Agroinnovations Podcast is turning to the issue of Fair Trade, focusing on fairly traded coffee to address some of the issues that the Fair Trade movement now faces. It has been almost 20 years since Fair Trade pioneers and social justice advocates started with an idea. And surely, [...]

Over the past century, we have seen massive loss of agricultural biodiversity, in terms of both species and varieties. The statistics on biodiversity loss in varietal strains are staggering. According to the book Fatal Harvest, from 1903 to 1983, we have lost 80.6 percent of tomato varieties, 92.8 [...]

 Though I have yet to blog about it, over at Agroinnovations we've been working hard putting together a podcast focused on agriculture and natural resource management.  The podcast is done via a series of themes, and the first theme was agricultural biodiversity, the second was community supported agriculture, and now we're busily preparing a [...]

The Green Theme is a concept being used at the Open Sourcing blog over at Agricultural Innovations. At the beginning of each month, when a new theme is unveiled, I will start the ball rolling by discussing the theme's general topic, and challenging other bloggers to join in on the [...]