Germany and Japan plan to further expand their cooperation in the agricultural and food sectors. German Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer (CSU) and his Japanese... https://news.osna.fm/?p=51182 | #news #address #agricultural #boost #deepen
Germany and Japan Deepen Agricultural Ties to Boost Trade and Address Global Food Security - Osna.FM

Germany and Japan strengthen vital partnership to advance agriculture, boost food security, and drive sustainable global farming innovation.

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"What if there is no one to farm? KAIST reveals a hidden risk to future #foodSecurity
• KAIST and the University of Tokyo develop an #agricultural land-use model based on climate, social, and economic data • Quantitatively proving that low birth rates and rural extinction can threaten future #foodProduction

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131946

#science #sustainability #food #farming #humans

landinsight | A search for a New Balance & Ground for fruitful Discussion

What could a sustainable Dutch #agricultural and #food system look like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCEu3KumCg #climate #Urgenda

landinzicht | grond voor een vruchtbaar gesprek

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Agricultural producer prices fell by 12.3% in April 2026 compared to the same month in 2025. Prior month reports showed a decline of 8.8% in March 2026 and 10.9... https://news.osna.fm/?p=50378 | #news #agricultural #amid #april #drop
Agricultural Producer Prices Drop Sharply in April 2026 Amid Food Sector Shifts - Osna.FM

Discover trends in agricultural prices. Producer prices for crop products fell 12.3% in April 2026. View the latest economic data and market shifts.

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/breaking-the-heart-of-the-heartland. "The unavoidable reality is that things are really very bad in #rural #America. Moreover, the devastation hitting the heartland is squarely a consequence of Trump’s #actions... The #tariffs raised the prices of #farm #machinery, #chemicals & #fertilizer. The final straw was the loss of #foreign #markets to #rival #agricultural #exporters such as #Brazil."
Breaking the Heart of the Heartland

White rural voters are belatedly awakening to reality

Paul Krugman
Why World is Falling in Love with #Kazakh #Honey
"Omirzak attributes much of #Kazakhstan’s reputation to the country’s relatively low use of genetically modified crops & intensive #agricultural chemicals.. While concerns abt declining #bee populations hv become widespread in Europe & North America, he said Kazakhstan’s #beekeeping industry benefits fr more #natural farming practices.
“Our plants remain largely natural, & many farmers still rely on natural fertilizers" 1/2
https://astanatimes.com/2026/06/why-world-is-falling-in-love-with-kazakh-honey/
Why World is Falling in Love with Kazakh Honey - The Astana Times

Why World is Falling in Love with Kazakh Honey

The Astana Times

About #SOIL (from #Wikipedia):

"#SustainableOrganicIntegratedLivelihoods or SOIL is an American nonprofit developmental aid organization co-founded by Sasha Kramer and Sarah Brownell in 2006. Its goal is to develop integrated approaches to the problems of #poverty, poor #PublicHealth, #agricultural productivity, and #EnvironmentalDestruction in #Haiti. SOIL's efforts have focused on the community-identified priority of increasing access to #EcologicalSanitation, where #HumanWastes are converted into #compost. More than 20,000 Haitians are currently using SOIL ecological sanitation toilets.

"#EkoLakay is a container-based household sanitation service in #CapHaitien and #PortAuPrince. Clients pay a low monthly service fee of around US$4. The service includes toilet rental, the provision of at least one bucket of carbon-based cover material each week, as well as weekly pick up of buckets full of wastes. SOIL designs and builds low-cost ecological sanitation toilets made from locally available materials. The primary design that SOIL builds are called urine diversion, or dry toilets that separate the #urine and the #feces through the use of a specially designed #ToiletSeat. The sterile urine is used directly as a #fertilizer or diverted into #SoakawayPits. The feces is treated through a process of managed #composting [#ThermophilicComposting] to ensure that all #pathogens have been killed and the resulting #compost is safe for #AgriculturalUse.

"#EkoMobil is a mobile toilet service [#PortAPotty] that SOIL offers to construction sites, cultural events, and others in need of mobile sanitation. EkoMobil uses the same container-based ecological sanitation technology as EkoLakay.

"Waste collected from SOIL's ecological sanitation toilets, as well as the ecological sanitation toilets of other organizations in Haiti, are treated through a process of managed thermophilic composting at SOIL's composting waste treatment sites. The process exceeds standards set by the #WorldHealthOrganization (#WHO) for the safe treatment of #HumanWaste. SOIL tests all wastes in their laboratory before bagging and selling it under the brand name #KonpòsLakay. Since 2006, SOIL has produced over 250 metric tons of compost.

"In 2011, SOIL published The SOIL Guide to Ecological Sanitation. This document describes SOIL's five years of ecological sanitation experience in Haiti. It covers topics such as toilet designs, management strategies, composting techniques, and lessons learned. The SOIL Guide is available in English and Haitian Creole."

Read more [includes sources]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Organic_Integrated_Livelihoods

#SolarPunkSunday #Humanure
#SafeComposting #OrganicCompost #RebuildingSoils #HighHeatComposting #ZeroWaste #SoilHealth #SoilDepletion

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods - Wikipedia

But #agricultural subsidies:

expanded

added crop insurance

added disaster payments

Same mechanism.
Opposite treatment.
#SNAP

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/30/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-history-of-u-s-welfare-narratives/

📚 The History of U.S. Welfare Narratives

How America learned to call one kind of help “patriotic” and another kind “dangerous” Please confirm political information with trusted, nonpartisan sources such as the Congressional Research Servi…

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"Linderman provided a very reasonable opinion based on his living in the #CrowsnestPass and the beneficial employment a new mine would provide. #Lethbridge City Council expresses the opposite opinion – do not kill the #agricultural industry in southern #Alberta, which, in contrast to the proposed #Northback mine, is much larger and far more sustainable than #coal."
#abpoli #WaterNotCoal #CorbLundPetition
https://open.substack.com/pub/crowsnestheadwaters/p/a-very-insightful-opinion-piece-in
A very insightful opinion piece in response to Carmen Linderman's pro-coal article

Taking the short-sighted view and expanding it to the much bigger reality.

Crowsnest Headwaters

It's an outdated belief in the US that the US will win trade wars because we've exported so much grain & meat for so long that the rest of the world cannot grow enough food to feed itself without the US & there's nowhere else for them to go so they'll HAVE to give in our trade demands.

The reality is the world can feed itself just fine when it wants to.
GREAT insight by @sarahtaber in a short video: https://youtube.com/shorts/S6uAM4DOjuQ?si=mJ8TQUSgbJnDSZ51 #Agricultural #Policy #TradeWar #Australia #China #austrailia