JATROPHA CURCAS: WHAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW by Ted Mendoza , Oscar Zamora, Joven Lales Faculty of Crop Science, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Banos tcm_uplb77@yahoo.com In the Philippines, agriculture is experiencing renewed popularity because... (read more)

NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS On March 28, less than two months ago, when Bush proclaimed his diabolical idea of producing fuel from food, after a meeting... (read more)

Note: I am posting this because it strikes me as a ridiculous expense for the British taxpayer. The money spent on this could be used to deliver better social services to their citizens. THE ENGLISH SUBMARINE ... (read more)

The Demand - Led Promotion of Organic Farming By Teodoro C. Mendoza For the more than two decades that ecological agriculture, particularly organic farming, has been promoted in the country, the focus has been on the farmers... (read more)

Global warming from a former petroleum geologist's viewpoint Kelvin S. Rodolfo To understand greenhouse warming from human-generated carbon dioxide requires a proper geological grasp of two things: First, the photosynthesis-respiration cycle, the most important element of Earth's delicately... (read more)

1. Urban Permaculture Center Metro Manila, where we are located, has a population of approximately 12 million. Food comes from the outlying provinces and travels up to 1500 km by air, sea, and land to get... (read more)