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[Link] A Drug Cartel War Is Making Lime Prices Skyrocket in Mexico
Read: 31/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Limes are part of Mexico’s identity. Essential companions to tequila, tacos and guacamole, they’re critical ingredients in the country’s gastronomy. They are also a pawn in an escalating war among rival drug cartels that is driving lime prices to record levels.
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[Link] Does Global Warming Make Rice Taste Better?
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
Steamed, scorched, pounded or fried, rice always delivers. The adaptability of rice is in part what makes this staple the culinary cornerstone for half of humanity.
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[Link] War on viruses over for Victoria's sentinel chickens after decades of bloody service
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For almost 50 years, flocks of sentinel chickens along the Murray River have formed the front line of defence against mosquito-borne viruses.
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[Link] Farmers 'cautiously joyous' after Queensland food bowl is deemed no place for 'big, dirty coal mine'
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Resources Minister Scott Stewart has delivered a preliminary review that says coal exploration north of Bundaberg is not in the public interest. It comes after the company Fox Resources applied for a mineral development licence (MDL) between Moore Park Beach and Avondale.
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[Link] ‘You may bring shame to your family’: Australia launches campaign to stop seasonal farm workers absconding
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has launched an aggressive campaign to prevent Pacific Islander farm workers from fleeing their jobs as new figures reveal more than 1,000 seasonal pickers absconded in the past year.
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[Link] Cracks in food system driven by year-round hunger for fresh produce begin to show
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As you consider your Christmas table – a bowl of cherries, a plump roasted bird and the cream on your pudding, you may spare a thought for the way the food gets to your table. Because three things this week signal cracks in our food production systems.
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[Link] Upstart Corn Activists in Mexico Just Beat GMO Goliath Bayer-Monsanto
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Mexico's Supreme Court just rejected appeals by companies including Bayer-Monsanto, Synganta, and Corteva, and voted to ratify an injunction that restricts the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
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[Link] Australia's largest movement of livestock underway as beehives choppered in to pollinate almond trees
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Beekeepers are going to great lengths to ensure that the almond pollination season in north-west Victoria is a blooming success this year. More than 277,000 hives are being transported to the region from across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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[Link] 'Mental health is deteriorating': Farmers beg for exemption for overseas harvest workers
Read: 8/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
For the second year in a row COVID-19 is causing headaches for grain farmers, who are begging the Federal and state governments to allow them to bring in overseas machinery drivers for this year's harvest.
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[Link] ‘Death of the river system’: Nationals make it legal to illegally take water from Upper Darling
Read: 6/5/2021 www.michaelwest.com.au
NSW parliament will tomorrow vote on a motion that may decide the very future of the devastated Murray Darling River System. Nationals MP and Water Minister Melinda Pavey last Friday introduced a scheme that allow floodplain harvesting licences to be issued across Northern NSW.
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