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• 25x'25 » German Renewable Energy Experience Offers Lessons for ...

  The development of a strong national renewable energy policy in Germany has been supported by a broad coalition that has included agriculture lobbies, rural communities and farming cooperatives. ... The lessons from Germany could help U.S. farms and rural communities achieve a broad range of economic, environmental and energy security objectives. The 25x'25 Alliance calls on stakeholders to raise awareness among the farming and rural communities that, in turn, ... 25x25.org

• Food & agriculture - July 26 | Energy Bulletin

  Yet following trade liberalization with America's heavily subsidized agriculture sector, Haiti's farming incomes collapsed. As a result, the population of Port-au-Prince has more than doubled since 1989. These migrants came to live by ... Two years ago, a confluence of environmental causes compounded by rising fuel costs and a global credit crunch caused food prices to skyrocket an average of 43 percent worldwide, leading to starvation and riots from Mexico to Bangladesh. ... energybulletin.net

• Hines Farm Blog: Another coalition of groups--this time ...

  The agricultural groups' initiative follows a similar one a few days ago by a coalition of labor unions, utilities, environmental groups, and renewable energy organizations and adds to the growing drumbeat in support of the RES. ... blogspot.com

• News Archive » Environment Minister to launch enhanced greenhouse ...

  The impact of Environmental Stewardship (ES) schemes on a farm's greenhouse gas (GHG) balance can now be calculated after the enhancement of a tool which measures GHG emissions and sequestration from agricultural production. The Country Land and Business Association's(CLA) web-based ... "By understanding the carbon balance of their business, farmers and land managers will be able to implement best practice towards efficient use of inputs especially energy and fertiliser." ... org.uk

• Kentucky's Community Farm Alliance: From growing tobacco to ...

  The Community Farm Alliance was established in 1985 amid a national farm credit crisis. Its goal was to preserve family farming in the context of an increasingly industrialized agricultural economy. When other farm organizations around the country ... or "L.I.F.E.," to envision the networks of farmers, producers, distributors, and consumers across Kentucky that would work collaboratively to institutionalize a new set of environmentally friendly agricultural processes. ... energybulletin.net