Re-Planting
... World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable and politically risky period," Joachim von Braun, head of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute told The Economist,...
View ArticleRe-Planting of Rice
Global food crisis looms as Asia's rice bowl empties and world price soars By Raju Gopalakrishnan in Manila Published Date: 18 April 2008 Source: The Scotsman Location: Edinburgh...
View ArticleThe Rice Fields of Issan
Rice could be even more volatile, since governments in many nations -- including across Asia's "rice bowl" -- consider rice not just a staple, but a national security priority. What makes rice...
View ArticleRe-Planting of Rice
Multi-national Food Corporations ... if you imagine a sort of hourglass, at the top there are the millions of farmers who grow the food that we eat, and at the bottom there are billions of us...
View ArticlePloughing of the field
.. There are two kinds of stories that we can tell about the food prices. One is an economic story, and that's a story about a perfect storm of poor harvests and a demand for meat in developing...
View ArticleJasmine Rice - Khao Hom Mali
... China uses 440,000 tons of rice each day. “If we sold them every grain of rice we produced in the United States, what we export and use domestically, it would last them less than three weeks.” .......
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World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger By DAVID STRINGER – LONDON (AP) — Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets. These possible...
View ArticlePersonal Rice Mill
The Finance Ministry will review the use of millions of rai of land owned by the Treasury Department.www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/04/23/headlines/headlines_30071332.php ... The move is a bid to bring...
View ArticleThe Village Rice Mill
This is the oldest rice mill in the village of Ban Donwai, the wood used is of an indigenous hardwood dated over 40+ years ago, the mill operates on a crop-share basis and produces only for local self...
View ArticleThe Rice Paddy
Long-term irrigation project does not offer short-term political gain... because it requires years for the results of any irrigation project to be realised. Issan villages that face annual droughts and...
View ArticleForest Temple - Wat Pah Ban Khor
An organic Buddhist community 30km north of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.
View ArticlePhu Phoilom
Phu Phoilom means mountain of gentle breeze, this is 30km south of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand. An 18 shot blended panorama.
View ArticleToday ...
The crop is unusual because its multiple shots blended and stichted together.
View ArticleThe Land of Smiles?
21 images, Stitched Panorama This region of Thailand is near the elbow-bend of the great mother of river - Mehkong , underneath this rice field is a layer of potash (the largest field in Asia), then...
View ArticlePimped Photo #29
Not my photo!, original by Varinwww.ipernity.com/doc/varin/3117317 Submitted to "Let´s play! Pimp my photo #29"www.ipernity.com/blog/jochen/97656 Original size available upon request, I cannot upload...
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