http://www.modernecohomes.com/blog/wine/how-to-host-an-organic-wine-tasting/ Green living Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:59:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://www.modernecohomes.com/blog/wine/how-to-host-an-organic-wine-tasting/comment-page-1/#comment-1793 Alcino PINHEIRO Fri, 15 May 2009 08:54:34 +0000 http://www.modernecohomes.com/?p=3238#comment-1793 The best way to mitigate climate change and gain food security is to support small-scale, ecological farming Organic and eco-friendly farming can feed the world "It is not necessarily about producing more food, but about producing more quality nutrition through less energy use and pollution," Climate change will affect smallholder farmers (who own less than two hectares of land) through increased crop failure, a rise in diseases and mortality of livestock, increased livelihood insecurity resulting in assets being sold, indebtedness, migration and dependency on food aid. Other consequences will be desertification and land degradation, rising sea levels causing floods, diminishing natural resource productivity and, in some areas, irreversible loss of biodiversity.Climate change is expected to put 49 million additional people at risk of hunger by 2020, and 132 million by 2050, according to IFAD. In sub-Saharan Africa, an additional 17 to 50 million people could be undernourished in the second half of the century due to climate change.."To feed the world, we will have to scale up productivity, but in an ecological way, by polluting less and making use of low-cost technologies,"Other strategies include soil conservation, incentives for sustainable production practices and payment for carbon reduction and avoided deforestation. The best way to mitigate climate change and gain food security is to support small-scale, ecological farming
Organic and eco-friendly farming can feed the world “It is not necessarily about producing more food, but about producing more quality nutrition through less energy use and pollution,”
Climate change will affect smallholder farmers (who own less than two hectares of land) through increased crop failure, a rise in diseases and mortality of livestock, increased livelihood insecurity resulting in assets being sold, indebtedness, migration and dependency on food aid. Other consequences will be desertification and land degradation, rising sea levels causing floods, diminishing natural resource productivity and, in some areas, irreversible loss of biodiversity.Climate change is expected to put 49 million additional people at risk of hunger by 2020, and 132 million by 2050, according to IFAD. In sub-Saharan Africa, an additional 17 to 50 million people could be undernourished in the second half of the century due to climate change..”To feed the world, we will have to scale up productivity, but in an ecological way, by polluting less and making use of low-cost technologies,”Other strategies include soil conservation, incentives for sustainable production practices and payment for carbon reduction and avoided deforestation.

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