How the large-scale food system can be a midsized farmer’s best hope
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Mud People and Super Farmers
In the lush highlands of eastern Uganda, mud is a valuable commodity— so long as it is “quality” mud.
The Conservation Road Less Traveled
How a fence and an off-road race are creating a new conservation paradigm in Kenya
Crops Minus Sun and Soil
Where new methods of agricultural production are increasingly sought-after, Verdant Earth Technologies is developing agricultural systems to address future challenges and to provide a growing population with fresh produce.
Un-American Reservations
Until American Indians living on Reservations have secure property rights and a stable rule of law, they will remain isloated on islands of poverty in a sea of prosperity.
Barbed wire entrepreneurship
Economist, n. a scoundrel whose faulty vision sees things as they really are, not as they ought to be. —after Ambrose Bierce Joseph Glidden transformed the American Plains. In 1874, Glidden patented the first practical design for barbed wire. The invention dramatically reduced the costs of separating cattle from crops and thus the costs ofContinue reading “Barbed wire entrepreneurship”
Thinking beyond open space
Productive farm land near large urban centers is being protected as conservation easements include farming as a stipulation of the tax-reducing easements.
The Last Best Place for Summer Research
Application deadlines for PERC’s summer programs are quickly approaching. Spend part of your summer in Bozeman, Montana, with these great PERC programs: Undergraduate Colloquium Graduate Fellowship Enviropreneur Institute Lone Mountain Fellowship Julian Simon Fellowship Media Fellowship Click on the program to find out more information. All programs offer a stipendContinue reading “The Last Best Place for Summer Research”
10 Years Of Enviropreneurs
A look back on the PERC Enviropreneur Institute from the retiring director
A new day for regulations?
by Shawn Regan “While Obama calls for a review and rollback of inefficient regulations, the fact remains that his administration has a record number of new major rules — with an economic impact of more than $100 million — in the pipeline, waiting to become final. This follows a sharp increase in pages of FederalContinue reading “A new day for regulations?”