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    Sue Kedgley on Peak Food - by frog



    Sue Kedgley spoke at the Farmers Market Biennial Conference yesterday on Peak Food: We are in danger of becoming a cash crop nation –producing dairy and to a lesser extent meat for export –while other sectors are being eroded by cheap imports. We import 2.8 million tonnes of food each year — bananas from Equador, [...] read more
    May 31, 2008 7:38 am - 39 Comments
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    Gone bananas - by frog



    Celsias examines the possibility that one of the world’s most popular foods, bananas, could become extinct.  It seems that more than 300 varieties of bananas have slowly been whittled down by world markets to just one; the uniformly familiar yellow ones we see in our supermarkets which go by the name of Cavendish.  Now the [...] read more
    March 27, 2008 11:08 am - 5 Comments