Farming – KCDESI

The Largest Urban Rooftop Farm in the World is Now Bearing Fruit (and More) in Paris

07/17/2020

Getting fresh produce into the heart of a major city used to be done by a fleet of rumbling, polluting trucks—now it’s a matter of bringing it down from the roof. The largest [...]

Unemployed Single Women Are Saving Fish and Making Money by Farming Sea Sponges

06/11/2020

This article was reprinted with permission from World At Large—a news website which covers politics, nature, science, health, and travel. In an area characterized by poverty, [...]

EU Plans to Raise $22 Billion Annually to Protect 30% of Land and Oceans for Biodiversity

06/01/2020

The European Commission (EC) has made a concrete pledge to enshrine 30% of the EU’s land and oceans as protected zones by 2030. To reach this end they plan to raise 20 billion [...]

Swedish Oat Milk Pioneers Offer a Successful Win-Win Path to Struggling U.S Dairy Farmers

03/02/2020

Self-proclaimed as the manufacturer of the world’s only true 100% environmentally-friendly dairy-free yogurt, Hälsa Foods is sharing their secret of success with struggling [...]

Cherokee Nation First U.S. Tribe to be Invited to Preserve Their Heirloom Species in Global Seed Vault

02/15/2020

With close to 1 million samples from nearly every country on earth, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the remote Svalbard Island, between Norway and the Arctic, contains the [...]

Scientists and Refugees Are Growing Crops in the Desert Using Discarded Mattresses Bound for the Landfill

02/14/2020

Photo by University of Sheffield / Desert Gardens British scientists have succeeded in cultivating tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and herbs in the desert using discarded [...]

Revised Farm Payments Will Let UK Farmers Serve the Environment and Public Good

01/25/2020

As the UK prepares to leave the European Union, an ambitious new piece of agricultural legislation presented in Parliament last week is set to unleash an “agricultural [...]