Category: Commercial Grow

Agricultural intensification has dramatically increased in recent decades, outstripping rates of agricultural expansion, and has been responsible for most of the yield increases of the past few decades. In the past 50 years, the world’s irrigated cropland area roughly doubled, while global fertilizer use increased by 500%. Intensification has also caused water degradation, increased energy use,…

Despite the considerable and continuing breakthroughs in plant genetic and genomic technologies, there has been relatively little global government investment into funding basic plant science and in translating these discoveries into food crops beneficial to farmers in less developed countries. To fill the gap, some foundations and public–private partnerships have launched programs. For example, the…

Within the CPID group, there were seven short inhibitor genes that lack the enzymatic portion of the protein. A similar trend of “stand-alone inhibitors” has been observed in other insects, such as B. mori. These CPID genes may be involved in the regulation of cysteine peptidases. We note that we found multiple fragments of cysteine…

With thirty-one other local organizations it released a Statement on Urban Agriculture in April 2011 . In response to a directive from the City Council President, CEDA presented a report describing a process for the adoption of new urban agricultural zoning policy including a minor but immediate interim zoning update in October 2010 . In…

For many organizers this international connection is essential to their work advocating for changes in Berkeley and across national borders. Another organized garden project based in the East Bay discussed their complicated relationship with the municipal government that supports them. The garden is located on public land and the initial agreement between the organizers and…

Community food security directly addresses issues of access to healthy food, and while highlighting differences in access between racial communities, activist involvement has largely included majority whites and middle-class individuals . Activists within the Community Food Security Coalition began to demand more recognition of the dynamics of race in problems of poverty and food access.…

This recent resistance to gentrification in both Oakland and San Francisco has drawn inspiration from a rich social movement history in the region. Racial housing justice activism harkens back to the fights against racist urban renewal projects starting with the Fillmore Redevelopment/Western Addition when African Americans saw the destruction of homes and businesses built post-WWII…

There is no indication that different proposals for the AISP’s continuation had any impact on the election outcome. In relating our findings to prior scholarship, it is noteworthy that we found no evidence of targeting with regard to partisanship or ethnicity in our survey area. Our results should not be taken to mean that Malawi’s…

Such information is needed to support decision-making which can place public benefits such as health costs alongside the potential private costs to farmers. Here we aim to inform efforts to mitigate the adverse impacts of crop residue burning by quantifying how small-scale and targeted changes could affect the air pollution and health risks of the…

Unfortunately, this positive effect of switching to drip irrigation is lost toward the end of the century as higher temperatures drive up crop water demands.One of the earliest econometric evaluations on the impacts of human-induced climate change to US agriculture developed out of a reaction to the limited substitution options in earlier production function models .…