At the Global Tiger Conservation Strategy Workshop in Nepal, scheduled for 26 to 30 October, 2009, the Environmental Investigation Agency EIAA) will present a new report which challenges some of the supply-side economics arguments put forth by tiger farm proponents.
Fish farming proponents contend that aquaculture is the only way to meet the food demands of a relentlessly growing world population, due to double in another 60 years.
Roger Cohen's column "The organic fable" (Views, Sept. 7) dismisses the benefits of small-scale organic farming, casting proponents of organic food as narcissistic and elitist.
Now, proponents of farm science are gearing up to try to replicate some of that success and boost government funding for competitive agricultural research.
East Carolina University sociology professor Bob Edwards says he had heard environmental justice groups claiming disparities in the siting of hog farms and industry proponents denying them when he realized it was an empirical question.
In Congress proponents of the farm law argued that without subsidies indebted family farmers would be run off their homesteads.
The center, on 80 acres dominated by Norman-style stone barns built in the 1930s by John D. Rockefeller Jr., offers workshops and includes the restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns, whose chef, Dan Barber, is a proponent of the farm-to-table movement.
"There's a fundamental conflict because, to a lot of people, this is supposed to be the alternative to the industrial agriculture system," said Charles Benbrook, a consultant in Sand Point, Idaho, who has been a prominent proponent of organic farming.
Dickson D Despommier, a microbiology professor and a top proponent of vertical farming, sees the agricultural technology not just as a response to food crisis but also as a means of returning land that was previously used for agriculture to its natural state.
She earned national attention as an early proponent of urban farming, organically grown flowers and sustainable landscapes.
