Agriculture Business

Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels.

El sentimiento agridulce es la tendencia al anhelo, la melancolía y la tristeza; es ser muy consciente del paso del tiempo y, curiosamente, disfrutar extraordinariamente de la belleza del mundo. Las personas agridulces reconocen que la luz y la oscuridad, el nacimiento y la muerte, lo amargo y...

The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs.

When the majority of people think about agriculture, they picture big farms spanning across large acreage. They imagine thousands of heads of cattle roaming across the landscape or they imagine fields filled with brown-gold heads of wheat waiting for massively expensive farm machinery to arrive for harvest. What you may not realize is that it's often possible to make more money on a small farm with just an acre or two, than on a massive farm with huge acreage.