London roof gardens to feed 2012 Olympians [ Holiday Lettings ] Nov 4, 2008  The city's mayor, Boris Johnson, has outlined plans to create roof gardens to feed the 2012 Olympic athletes. The scheme is set to be launched today. ... Read More ...

Record harvest but troubles loom ahead ... [ Organisation de la Presse Africaine  ] Nov 6, 2008  The report says that world agriculture is facing serious long-term issues and challenges that need to be urgently addressed. These include land and water ... Read More ...

ECONOMY-CHINA Flirting With Land Tenure Reforms [ IPS ] Oct 13, 2008  Chinese leaders plan to relinquish partial control of the country's most important asset -- the land, and allow peasants more freedom to lease or transfer ... Read More ...

The changing face of land tenure [ Fiji Times ] Oct 11, 2008  Fison was a missionary and long-time resident of Fiji who had taken the time to study kinship and land tenure practices ... Read More ...

Tanzania's land policy unruffled by planned EAC market [ DailyNewsOnline ] Nov 1, 2008  Tanzania's land tenure system has undergone several changes since colonial time, including the declaration that all land is owned by the government in trust ... Read More ...

Learn about Plants and More [ Florida Times-Union ] Oct 25, 2008  Rabbits, geese, chickens, goats, sheep and several breeds of cows all add to the atmosphere in this very urban setting. This is the closest that some kids ... Read More ...

Listen to Roger the Gardener Make the White House a Model ... [ AlterNet ] Oct 29, 2008  The White House lawn has been a sustainable and edible landscape in the past, notably at times of national emergency. In 1918, for example, ... Read More ...

Margaret Shea Producing Seeds [ Louisville Courier-Journal ] Nov 03, 2008  'Producing seeds and plants that are native to Kentucky. Some native plants are edible and have medicinal uses. Read More ...

RAD recovers soils through modern farming techniques [ Russian Agricultural Division ] October 27, 2008  Russian Agricultural Division, PAVAís new subsidiary, introduces modern farming techniques in its arable units ... Read More ...

Edible gardens [ The Times-News ] Nov 05, 2008  Brent Barsotti learned to cook from his grandmother, who immigrated to America from the medieval Tuscan city of Lucca. Read More ...

Clean Energy Opportunities for Emerging Muslim World Markets [ DinarStandard.com ] Nov 5, 2008  All of these combined issues have created the need for conservation, clean fuels and greenhouse gas absorption to support transport, buildings, agriculture, ... Read More ...

Farmers of the farmers market celebrate year of growth [ Port Townsend Leader ] Nov 5, 2008  ... BC, spoke of his years of farming and growing produce, and called for urban agriculture to become a new habit of millions of Americans. ... Read More ...

Prickly pear cactus thrives anywhere [ El Paso Times ] Nov 6, 2008  Prickly pear cactus is edible and attractive, and worth growing where you want something offbeat or unique in the landscape, no matter where you live. ... Read More ...

Land Reform South Africa [ SA Good News ] Nov 6, 2008  Secondly, Land Tenure Reform aims to give all South Africans, particularly farm workers, labour tenants and those in the former homelands, ... Read More ...

City urged to offer land for farms [ Cincinnati.com ] Nov 4, 2008  'Some city residents would be interested in earning a living through sustainable urban agriculture, producing food on land that is currently idle and ... Read More ...

Bridging the gap between land ownership and economic progress [ New Zimbabwe ] Nov 4, 2008  The discovery from experience by the Chinese leadership that there is a direct link between land tenure system and farm efficiency and productivity was ... Read More ...

Glorious gardens [ South Manchester Reporter ] Nov 6, 2008  It came just days before Eddie and Margery's garden was named best garden in the city for a social housing property in a competition organised by Manchester ... Read More ...

One billion people plus will be hungry next year UN expert [ The West Australian ] Oct 27, 2008  Rising food prices will push the number of hungry people in the world over one billion next year, a UN expert warns. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reported ... Read More ...

Organic agriculture route to freedom [ Turkish Daily News  ] Nov 6, 2008  With help, they turn to organic agriculture and make their success story complete. The village head says, 'In short, we are enjoying democracy' A village ... Read More ...

Growing our city [ Detroit Metro Times ] Nov 5, 2008  Ashley Atkinson is the Director of Urban Agriculture at the Greening of Detroit, a community-based program that encourages the use of vacant land in the ... Read More ...