The olive harvest: the money in olives has always been an enemy of tradition and quality Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images Book review: The Observer, Sunday 15 January, 2012 Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller Is there any foodstuff as dodgy as olive oil? Human beings have been defrauding [...]
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Olive oil – 5000 years of fraud and poisoning
Posted in Agriculture, book review, olive oil, The price of food, Uncategorized, tagged cocaine trafficking, tom mueller, virgin olive oils on 15/01/2012 | 2 Comments »
How will climate change affect Britain’s crops?
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, UK food, tagged agriculture, almonds, climate change, Mark Diacono, olives, UK on 11/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
11th October 2009, The Observer Olives, kiwi fruit, almonds – as the climate gets hotter in the UK, we may well be producing our own exotic crops Far from the failed harvests, droughts and floods of Asia, Mark Diacono is expecting some good to come of climate change. On his 17-hectare farm beside the Otter [...]
Food, famine and climate change: India’s scorched earth
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, India, tagged andhra pradesh, drought, farming, india, suicide on 11/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
11th October 2009 The Observer Suicide is the latest epidemic among farming communities as climate change parches the heart of India, destroying agriculture and plunging the poorest families into crippling debt. In Andhra Pradesh, everyone we met had lost faith in the weather. “It is,” said one woman, a groundnut farmer and a mother of [...]
