Posts tagged with agriculture

Follow The Frog For Forest Friendly Foods & Drinks

Follow The Frog

If you’ve been following my blog for any time then you’ll probably know that I like to show people simple actions that they can take to both reduce their carbon footprint and prevent the destruction…

Farmers Turn to GM Crops in Face of Weather Extremes

GM food

British farmers are now looking to genetically modified crops as a way to safeguard against extreme weather, following a year which saw both prolonged droughts and record breaking rainfall. 2012 was the wettest year since…

Fertiliser Flaws & Pesticide Problems

Fertiliser Flaws & Pesticide Problems

In the second of my posts looking into the environmental impact of modern agriculture, I am exploring the use of fertilisers and pesticides to boost crop yields and what damage they could be doing to…

Monocropping: Necessity Or Environmentally Neglectful?

Monoculture Farming

I have been thinking about the environmental impact of food and drink for a while now; indeed it was one of my green New Year’s resolutions to eat a lower impact diet and I started…