A Spanish artist is using a giant 40-metre-high artwork painted on the side of a building in the Belgian capital, Brussels, to pose questions about climate change and the effect it’s having on global ecosystems.
Sustainability is not new: communities have been living in harmony with their surroundings for hundreds, if not thousands of years. As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration begins, the UN is celebrating some of the most remarkable agricultural systems found around the world.
Although soils are essential for human well-being and the sustainability of life on the planet, they are threatened on all continents by natural erosion, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on World Soil Day, calling for their protection.
Methods for growing cereal that respects natural ecosystems is the focus of a new book from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
The world’s major cereals, which include maize, rice and wheat, account for more than 40 per cent of human calories consumed and more than 35 per cent of our protein.
The new book examines ways for growing such food staples while also respecting and even leveraging natural ecosystems.
