Not only do the growing billions of people in the world want to eat, but those in poorer countries want to share in the lifestyles those of us enjoy in the West. They don’t want to be wondering where the next meal for themselves and their families will be coming from; they don’t want to get ill from eating that meal; they don’t want to spend all their waking hours bent double under the sun weeding their crops; they want to be able to buy and enjoy non-food comforts

These are links from our Scoop It page between October 9th and October 16th: Trees ‘boost African crop yields’ Planting trees that improve soil quality can help boost crop yields for African farmers and improve food security, an assessment shows.   The results appear in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. Source: www.bbc.co.uk Plant light [...]

You might put together a salad from what you’ve grown in your back garden, but it’s a surprisingly cosmopolitan meal. Tomatoes came from Mesoamerica and if you have potato salad, then you have the Incas of South American to thank. Recent research by Jules Janick and Harry Paris, Medieval Herbal Iconography and Lexicography of Cucumis [...]