If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa’s Ecological Footprint (a measure of its demand on nature) will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, according to a publication to be released by Global Footprint Network on Tuesday, October 20. A number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that [...]

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British consumers are likely to cut spending on expensive fair trade and organic items in response to the credit crunch amid widespread dissatisfaction over the variety of green products offered by retailers, new research has warned.
Almost half of 4,000 consumers questioned said they were unwilling or unable to pay more for environmentally sustainable food and [...]

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Rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world’s population facing serious food shortages, new research shows.To compound matters, the population of this equatorial belt – from about 35 degrees north latitude to 35 degrees [...]

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This week ZapRoot is covering…..

1. Greenland wants to bottle glacier H2O.
2. Corn Refiners Association says, “You can have your HFCS and eat it, too.”
3. Big corporations are swallowing up small organic food companies.

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Tesco has unveiled its first environmentally-friendly store which it claimed will use almost half the energy of a standard supermarket.
The new eco-store, in Tramore, County Waterford, will cut CO2 emissions equivalent to 400 cars from escaping into the atmosphere. Supermarket bosses said that when the 30,000 sq ft store opens next week, it will use [...]

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If you live in a flat (apartment to our US friends), you might want to compost your food waste, but you don’t have a garden to compost the waste in. The NatureMill Pro is an indoor composting gadget that will efficiently breakdown your food leftovers into a useful and nitrogen rich composting soil.
The NatureMill gadget [...]

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The rise of organic farming and rejection of GM crops in Britain and other developed countries is largely to blame for the impoverishment of Africa, according to the government’s former chief scientist.

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Exponential increases in food prices in recent times have created enormous challenges to governments, national and international organizations, and aid agencies everywhere in the world. The World Bank has estimated that the rising food prices could push an additional 100 million people into poverty, thereby undermining the current efforts geared towards poverty reduction.
Increasing demand, decreasing [...]

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Drought in Australia’s main food growing region of the Murray-Darling river system has worsened, with water inflows over the past two years at an all-time low, the government’s top water official said on Tuesday.

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According to The Guardian today, shoppers are beginning to fall out of love with organic food as the credit crunch bites and food prices soar. Want to know more? Read on below:

Organic food sales have fallen more than at any time in the last decade as shoppers try to cut costs and experts warn that [...]

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