The third agrarian revolution: from production and consumption to relations
The big challenge is not to produce more food but to develop a food system built on a more humble view of the role of humans in nature.
rebuilding resilient food and farming systems
The grain giants have made a bonanza from hunger. Time to take them apart
As economies tumble, inflation surges and global food prices soar to critically high levels, two sectors seem to have hit the jackpot in 2022 – energy giants and grain traders.
Cecosesola of Venezuela Wins Right Livelihood Award!
You could say that Cecosesola has learned how to ignore the market and set its own terms for providing goods and services.
Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching
While some might praise regenerative agriculture as a new advent, the techniques are older than the U.S. itself.
Cider Planet: Excerpt
One long-standing question, which is unresolved within the cider community, is that of a good definition of cider.
Rural Europe Takes Action | The Sámi Environmental Programme
I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.
Foraging for City Fruit on Bike Routes and Up Trees
Integrating Indigenous food systems like forest gardens into today’s urban setting will take some work. But we can look at models of food sharing and community building in Indigenous societies to help us reimagine what is possible in non-Indigenous urban centres…
William Cobbett’s ‘Cottage Economy’: the future is material
Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of life.
Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland
Eslava and Sumano are working together to preserve the region’s chinampas, remnants of the branch and reed rafts that Mesoamerican farmers covered in nutrient-rich lake mud to grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia
By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.
A local food renaissance in Wales
The re-establishment in public discourse of a Welsh food culture, with its long history, its ingredients and methods, provides the possibility of a rooted baseline for the future of food in this country; open to change, but aware of its provenance.
Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels
It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.