While China's "Great Green Wall" campaign brings hope and economic development to the country's deserts, it also erodes ethnic Mongolians' traditional nomadism. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/asia-pacific/china-great-green-wall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #mongolia #agriculture #environment
The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics for most of the postwar era, is in danger of crumbling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/japan/politics/japan-ruling-party-ldp-in-danger/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #farmers #agriculture #rurallife #rice #shinjirokoizumi #sanaetakaichi #sanseito
Angela Antunovic
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‘It’s Such a Blessing’: The Farmers Embracing Solar Arrays
From summer squash to sheep’s wool, a variety of agricultural products may grow better beneath an awning of solar panels.
https://atmos.earth/climate-solutions/its-such-a-blessing-the-farmers-embracing-solar-arrays/
#solar #farming #SolarPower #agriculture #atmos #ClimateSolutions
Got some soy exports data from the United Nations FAO Statistics site. Impressive rise by Brazil starting in the late 1990s; Argentina looks tiny in comparison.
If China wants a reliable partner Brazil looks like the real deal.
And now, if we look at their trade with China during the last 40 years or so, we can see the major Trump I fiasco for US exports.
Dumb thing is that farmers voted for him... again.
Got some soy exports data from the United Nations FAO Statistics site. Impressive rise by Brazil starting in the late 1990s; Argentina looks tiny in comparison.
If China wants a reliable partner Brazil looks like the real deal.
‘It’s Such a Blessing’: The Farmers Embracing Solar Arrays
From summer squash to sheep’s wool, a variety of agricultural products may grow better beneath an awning of solar panels.
https://atmos.earth/climate-solutions/its-such-a-blessing-the-farmers-embracing-solar-arrays/
#solar #farming #SolarPower #agriculture #atmos #ClimateSolutions
Michael Foster
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Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/27/meat-gas-emissions-reporting
priryo@linernotes.club
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Boost:
Are there botanists/plant scientists here who'd like to meet via Signal video chat to create an ongoing support group - mentoring circle?
As a disabled grad student, I was not included in many of UC Davis' programs (see @ucaccessnow Demandifesto for details...). Things are tough all over right now, and especially marginalized scientists could use some support. If you're interested, please reply below. #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture #Agriculture
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/27/meat-gas-emissions-reporting
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi downplayed criticism on Friday over his ministry's handling of a licensing deal for a prized grape variety that sparked an official protest from producers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/japan/politics/koizumi-grape/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shinjirokoizumi #agriculture #maff #fruit #newzealand #yamanashi
Boost:
Are there botanists/plant scientists here who'd like to meet via Signal video chat to create an ongoing support group - mentoring circle?
As a disabled grad student, I was not included in many of UC Davis' programs (see @ucaccessnow Demandifesto for details...). Things are tough all over right now, and especially marginalized scientists could use some support. If you're interested, please reply below. #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture #Agriculture
"President Donald Trump's tariffs have decimated U.S. farmers' soybean market and there is 'no sign of Chinese buying.'
The fall harvest has started without any orders from China, the world's biggest buyer, according to a new report published on agriculture.com's Successful Farming."
~ Nicole Charky-Chami
#Trump #farmers #agriculture #economy #soybeans #bankruptcy #China #tariffs
Reporters spoke to dozens of farmers and 10 crop experts who said the smoky skies of midsummer had mainly positive impacts for canola — although the experts cautioned that more research is needed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/23/climate-change/canada-wildfire-upsides/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #canada #environment #agriculture #wildfires #climatechange
The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.
#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy
The report also includes… #data on #children & the #elderly.
The #Agriculture Dept’s statement attacked the #FoodInsecurity report as “rife with inaccuracies, wrong metrics, zero accountability, & a massive drive for bigger & larger” government programs.
Elaine Waxman, an expert on methods of measuring food insecurity at the Urban Institute, a Washington research group, said in an interview that “none of that [statement] is accurate.”
In a sharp break with precedent, #Trump has aggressively contested sources of government #data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak #jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor #Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”
#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.
#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy
The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #US had a #hunger problem.
The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were #FoodInsecure, meaning that during some portion of the year, not every member of household had access to enough #food for a healthy lifestyle.
#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
The #Agriculture Department said in a statement that the report had become “overly politicized, & upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”🤯
The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.
#PublicHealth #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
This is crazy.
#Trump Admin to Stop Measuring #FoodInsecurity
The move strips the government of its main gauge of #hunger in America, & will impede efforts to track the impact of #aid cuts [that’s the plan].
#PublicHealth #Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-hunger-report-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.
The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.
#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
ProPublica
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The H-2A visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death.
Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Immigration#Farming#Agriculture#Immigrants#Visa#Labor#Safety
Bjørnar (he/him)
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💗 Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-forest-expansion-agricultural-output.html
#india #forests #agriculture #conservation #farming #resources
💗 Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-forest-expansion-agricultural-output.html
#india #forests #agriculture #conservation #farming #resources