Perus potato passion [ BBC News ] Feb 11, 2008  Peruvians are hoping to find a foreign market for their potatoes, writes the BBC's Dan Collyns. Read More ...

Worlds Worst Farmer scheduled for tribute [ Dyersburg State Gazette ] Feb 11, 2008  Humorist Lewis Baumgartner, billed as "The World's Worst Farmer," is scheduled as the featured attraction of the Dyersburg Noon Rotary Club's annual Rural Urban Day on Thursday. Read More ...

Program aimed at increasing students' global experiences [ Rapid City Journal ] Feb 11, 2008  A new program at South Dakota State University is aimed at giving agriculture students more international experiences. Read More ...

RFA President Dinneen Says Land Use Issues Must Include Impact of All Factors, Including Continuing Petroleum Dependence [ Grainnet.com ] Feb 11, 2008  Washington, D.C.Recently, increased attention is being paid to the environmental impacts of land use changes around the world. Read More ...

Conagua [ Business News Americas ] Feb 10, 2008  In 1999 southern Mexico's Tabasco state felt the utter force of nature. Heavy rains inundated the area, affecting 250,000 people and leaving billions of pesos in losses to agriculture, business and infrastructure. Read More ...

NAFTA Is a Sweet Deal, So Why Are They So Sour? [ Granma International ] Feb 11, 2008  ... feed a growing urban population. It will also need to help more rural Mexicans find jobs outside agriculture. On all these fronts, Nafta is likely to help. Read More ...

Rural: urban debate requires clear and careful thought [ Nova News Now, Canada ] Feb 10, 2008  The Greenwich situation is only one of a number in recent years that show where urban development and agriculture meet, but also where farmers are almost ... Read More ...

The Urban Agriculture Magazine [ Organic-Market.Info, Germany ] Feb 4, 2008  Urban agriculture is one such strategy. It contributes to a wide variety of urban issues; it provides multiple benefits for urban inhabitants and can have ... Read More ...

Farming carbon as a cash crop [ Toronto Star, Canada ] Feb 11, 2008  But a conference on agriculture and global warming has inspired me to dig deeper into things rural. The speaker who grabbed my urban-oriented ... Read More ...

Agriculture is in the news [ ScienceAlert, Australia ] Feb 11, 2008  ... the rush to develop biofuels, social tensions caused by the widening gap between rural and urban populations in Asia - agriculture is in the news. ... Read More ...

Urban Farms Revitalize City Neighborhoods [ NuWire Investor, WA ] Feb 8, 2008  ... farmer of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture , said in an e-mail interview. KCCUA encourages a for-profit approach to urban farming. ... Read More ...

Raul Castro Recognizes Urban Agriculture Workers [ Periodico 26, Cuba ] Jan 29, 2008  BY KATIA SIBERIA GARCIA Intensive urban agriculture, which in its beginning got off to a slow start, today plays an important role in producing healthy food ... Read More ...

Reform labour laws to bridge urban-rural divide [ Express India ] Feb 10, 2008  Increasing urbanisation levels are fuelling income disparity, notes a recently-released report. Read More ...