Pesticides travel far after initial agricultural application A University of Sydney led study published today in Nature has revealed the chemical odyssey pesticides embark upon after their initial agricultural application, with environmental consequences for a range of ecosystems. About three million tonnes of agricultural pesticides are used across the globe each year, yet little is […]
SUMMER COURSE in GroningenLearn all about designing sustainable regional food systems and agroecological landscapes for the North of The Netherlands! A redesign of the agricultural systems and resulting landscapes is urgently needed. The north of The Netherlands is a region that has the potential to become an example and lead the way towards sustainable food […]
Abstract 2020 is a year in which human beings have been fighting against a global pandemic, Corona (COVID-19). Some measures have been taken so as to prevent a further spread of the disease but to avoid further pandemics and further effects of climate change, we must stop being self-centred and focus on how to conserve […]
Translated and edited by Jitte Daalmeijer. The future plant pathology The opinion article by J. C. Zadoks (whom I still tend to call my professor) in the most recent edition of Gewasbescherming, the newsletter of the Royal Netherlands Society of Plant Pathology (KNPV) was the extra push I needed to write this article. It were […]
The corona crisis and the hunt for medical services, equipment and materials once again show that an efficient health system is not the same as a robust system. An efficient system is cheap. The production of medical supplies is predominantly in the hands of some large private and market-oriented companies located all over the world. […]
Enough farmland to ensure a healthy diet for all people, improve global biodiversity and limit climate change in 2050 There is enough agricultural land on our planet for local and sustainable production of a healthy diet for all people now and also in 2050. The intensive global farming systems (with a lot of chemical pesticides […]
Short version of the lecture on 2 July 2019 in Amsterdam * by Bertus Buizer In a previous lecture in Amsterdam for VU and UvA students, I demonstrated on the basis of scientific studies that organic farming has the best credentials for an adequate sustainable food supply. The calculation I made then showed that organic […]
Bertus Buizer – 19 december 2018 – update: 23 december 2018 In a tweet on December 14, 2018, Dr. Aalt Dijkhuizen, president of the Dutch Topsector Agri & Food, wrote (we translated it in English): “Organic agriculture is bad for the climate, thus (again) determined in the attached article in Nature. Of course everyone is […]
Over 200,000 European Citizens signed the People 4 Soil petition calling on the EU to protect soil! Bertus Buizer* – 19 September 2017 – update: 4 December 2018 The European strategies for protecting biodiversity and combating climate change should focus on soil: the EU must develop a roadmap towards a land degradation neutral world. […]
This article has been published here in the scope of the European Citizen Initiative (ECI) People 4 Soil Key Points Freshwater scarcity is emerging as a critical systemic risk worldwide. While the global population has tripled over the past century, our use of water has increased sixfold. More than 95 per cent of humanity’s present […]
On September 14, 2016, the startup meeting of the campaign People4Soil was held in the Netherlands. This is a European Citizens’ Initiative for specific legislation on soil protection. The meeting was organized by the Dutch Sustainable Food Supply Foundation and was held at EOSTA / Nature and More, which previously launched the international campaign called ‘Save […]
What can give a new impulse to agriculture in Africa, and how can young people get involved in this? And what role can development aid play in this? The 25th of April, 2016, in Amersfoort, in an interesting discussion evening organized by the Scientific Institute of the Dutch political party SGP, I was allowed to […]
Expectations for 2050 are that the world population will have grown to 9 billion people, and that continuation of the current use of land will lead to large food and water shortages. Those shortages possibly will be much greater than in 2008, when high food prices led to food riots and unrest in Asia and […]
Special attention to soil, ecology and sustainable supply of water and energy. Sustainable Food Supply Foundation has developed a draft program for an international two-day conference about “Sustainable World Food Supply”. The concept lends itself very well to cooperation with embassies, farmers organizations and governmental representatives of European, Asian, African and Latin American countries, the […]
Strong annual growth in consumer demand for organic products Lecture given on February 12, 2015 at CREA Amsterdam for students of the University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam. by Bertus Buizer update: January 31, 2017 A frequently asked question is: is organic agriculture capable of feeding the entire growing world population? My answer […]
A map of MoveHub shows with a Consumer Price Index (CPI) the living costs around the world in comparison to New York. ‘The Consumer Price Index, used to determine the difference in the living costs between countries, takes into account the prices of groceries, transportation, restaurants and utilities.’ See also the article of January 26, […]
An Open letter by Dr. Vandana Shiva* to Prime Minister Modi and President Obama from democratic, concerned citizens of India and the US: We, as concerned and democratic citizens of India, and the US, welcome the coming together of two of the largest democracies of the world to work together to protect the rights of […]
Guest blog of Joon Nguetti Hi all on my guest blog that I may write for Sustainable Food Supply! Each guest blog I’m going to tell you about my love for special natural products like organic edible plants and fruits. I will do that being as objective as possible by relying on scientific studies. At […]
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