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  1. East Gippsland defeats mineral sands mine

    vegetation, air quality, water quality, agriculture and horticulture. At risk was the vegetable growing ... industry in the Mitchell Valley and the water supplies it depends on, as well as the drinking water for ...

  2. Nationals don’t speak for farmers on climate change action

    and water points. Soil carbon sequestration increases water holding and water infiltration. It holds ... by the crop — the remainder leach into the water table or volatise as nitrous oxide, which is a very ... serious greenhouse gas. Caring for our living soil and water needs government support. Instead of the ...

  3. Regenerative agriculture explained, but not its politics

    absorb and hold water, resulting in more severe droughts and floods. This role of soil carbon and how it ...

  4. Regenerative agroecology: Protecting animal welfare and the environment

    degrade land and water. This is because they are extremely energy and water intensive, and use chemical ... herbicides and fungicides. Properly managed, grass-eating ruminants help build and cool soil, get water into ... crowding also produces piles of concentrated nitrogen- and phosphate-rich manure and waste water that, ...

  5. Hazelwood coal fire — a consequence of privatisation

    and 2008 took 4–5 days to put out; recommendations made then to improve access and water supply were ... extinguish. The electric water pumps that supplied the hydrants around the mine couldn’t work because the ... create a lake, but the amount of water needed is far more than the La Trobe River can supply, and could ...

  6. Clean meat not quite the future of food

    and quantity of water required ‒ by a factor of ten. Shots of huge numbers of cattle in feedlot yards, ...

  7. Eyewitness: East Gippsland burns

    professional fire crews, the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and water bombers, the fires continued and expanded ...

  8. Are belching cows really driving climate change?

    produced methane from the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter under water, different kinds of ... and water searching ability. The byproduct is glomalin, a very stable humus-forming compound. ... stores vast amounts of water. The debate about agriculture’s contribution to greenhouse gases has been ...

  9. History will judge Mugabe’s legacy

    literacy rose substantially. Health, education, water and housing were brought to millions of people for ... education and health systems in Africa, and bringing water supply, housing and sanitation to millions of ...

  10. A celebration of regenerative farmers

    which regenerative agriculture addresses: solar, water, nutrient recycling, biodiversity and the human ...

  11. Ecological agriculture needs to be made a priority

    water does not stay in the soil. Herbicides are also fast losing their effectiveness. Agricultural ...

  12. East Gippsland fights mineral sands mine

    mine requires about the same amount of water as used by the 29,000 households supplied by the Mitchell ... River. This water is not available locally. It is planned to be piped from the Sale aquifer, but that ... aquifer is fully committed and can only be released by purchasing existing water rights. There will be an ...

  13. Misnamed ‘Green Revolution’ eyes Africa

    yielded higher than the Green Revolution varieties when measured on production per water use or per ... yielding varieties require three times more water. In Punjab, where water comes from bores, there has been ... a drop in the water table of 30cm per year. In areas irrigated by canals, water tables have risen, ...

  14. Behind a corporate monster: How Monsanto pushes agricultural domination

    attorney-general as false and misleading advertising. Monsanto lost. In France’s north-west, the Brittany Water and ...

  15. Venezuela: Transforming agriculture

    in the water — they are just thrown out and hauled in. The size of the nets allows small fish to ...