Biodynamic agriculture

Corporate branding activities aimed at a variety of stakeholders are devised to gain trust, and build a strong reputation among the group. Strategic initiative toward corporate branding is especially true when scandals or allegations of unethical practices are suggested. In order to secure a strong corporate reputation, the company must succeed in delivering a quality product, financial success, social responsibility, and strong executive leadership (Ferrell, Hartline, 2014). Monsanto has had…

environment due to factory farming that I’m just going to point out a few I find very important. First off, looking at studies from environmental researchers we have found that: “According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including 37 percent of methane emissions and 65 percent of nitrous oxide emissions. The methane releases from billions of…

Robert H. Bates’ book “Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development” takes an in-depth look at how the two factors of either prosperity or violence work hand in hand in the development of the modern world. The different political structures of today have all come about because of prosperity and violence in different phases of each nation’s development taking it from the near egalitarian agricultural societies of the ancient world to the more modern nation-states that fill the…

Did you know that about 280,000 people die annually due to being overweight? Most people don’t know how eating unhealthy can cause major difficulties in their later years. Eric Schlosser is an investigative journalists, who wrote the nonfiction book called “Fast Food Nation”. The book is about the global and local influences the United States’ fast food industries have. Although some may argue that the corporations should led a reform of the US food system, overall, the government should take…

Our lesson begins with how our food production has developed, and, as doing so, how we destroyed the environment. One of the most prominent study on population was done by Tomas Robert Malthus. Born in 1766, he argued that since the rate of population growth and food supply growth are different, there will be more people than food. Fundamentally, he is claiming that food supply determines the population. This theory was the base that lead to Social Darwinism. However, Ester Boserup disagreed.…

GMO, which stands for Genetically Modified Organism have been introduced as a highly debatable topic for quite a while now. A GMO is an organism whose genetic material has been altered by using genetic engineering techniques. Before this technology was available, farmers had to pass down knowledge of their best breeds for optimal/desirable traits for the crops they would produce. Now GMOs have given us the option to select traits that would discourage and repel pests to certain crops. Some may…

2) Chief Purpose: This article is a case study commenced to examine social vision, personal and ideological factors associated with the development of the ecovillage at Ithaca and the various dimensions that have created a sustainable lifestyle among the residents within their natural environments. The research was meant to review the modalities of connectedness with the environment and the development of relationships between the Ithaca community, the design of the ecovillage, and the…

Along with the threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific region owing to access to fresh water is the decline of fertile agricultural land. Agricultural land is not only the source of actual food for the subsistence of the populations from whence it is yielded but also the source of employment and in turn income for a huge proportion of the population in the Asia-Pacific region. There are currently dozens of deals being cut between rich or powerful countries with shortages of fertile land or in…

Peasant farming is the mainstay economic activity and the major source of livelihood of the northeast Ghanaian woman. She is constrained in this quest by her limited access land. In recent times lands have become fragmented because of commercialisation. Additionally, she uses rudimentary farm implements such as the hoe and in some instances the bull plough, thus, she lacks access to appropriate technology to enhance her farming activities. Culturally, the patriarchal nature of her society and…

As I walk into my local Stop & Shop or Market Basket I am overwhelmed by my choices. I look at some of the products and sometimes I find pictures of small farms with wide green pastures. That is how the industrial food system wants us to interpret it, although I know this is far from reality. Most of these industrial farms do not even have animals, and the ones that do are simply awful. In the essay “The Future of Food Production, the author, Sam Forman mentions that as soon as food production…