Rāhui and the Art of Marine Conservation
A rāhui is, in essence, an area of land or water with a temporary limit on collecting a resource, such as a particular fish or fruit. In time, once the resource has had time to replenish, the rāhui is lifted.
Food & Water featured
How to adapt?
Now is not the time to try to remediate the hopeless causes. Now is the time to abandon the Titanic as quickly as possible and head for open water before it takes us all down to the icy depths.
Chris Smaje Vs. George Monbiot and the Debate on the Future of Farming
We need constructive debates about food and farming so that we can find the best ideas for addressing the desperate business at hand: figuring out how to live healthily on a healthy planet.
Planet Local Summit – International Vision for a Localised Future
Global network Local Futures, organiser of the three-day event, calls for a gravitation to localised systems to support local economies and sustainable communities. It’s about “shifting power from transnational corporations to genuinely democratic institutions, while simultaneously building up regional self-reliance.”
Kayaking with Lambs: Excerpt
Somewhere—the gravel road I grew up on, the wharf I fished from, the woods at the end of the road where we roamed, the edge of the bayou where we fought off pirates to keep them from landing—is no longer. It is now an anywhere of pavement, sidewalks, a Walmart, hotels, casinos, and housing developments. Anywhere is nowhere.
Crop Wild Relative Conservation through Checkoff Programs
Mobilizing funds for the proper conservation and utilization of crop wild relative conservation is quite difficult. Exploring available options to coordinate investment by industry actors is one potentially strong strategy to pursue this goal.
New worlds to build
There’s real work of transformative adaptation to do to rise to present challenges – unsung, grassroots and local.
Review: Kayaking with Lambs
Kayaking with Lambs is a collection of essays mostly pulled from Brian Miller’s richly authentic farm journal, A South Roane Agrarian, where the author and sybaritic farmer in residence deals out eloquent vignettes of living and working on an East Tennessee farm.
Crazy Town Bonus Riff. Infinite, Unlimited, Forever – Water in the Desert
Just how much has the extractivist growth mindset come to dominate Phoenix and other cities in the desert Southwest of the United States? Prepare to turn your indignation meter up to 11 as Jason, Rob, and Asher consider desalination, pipelines, and the folly of pursuing infinite growth in a dry climate.
EU Fails to Deliver on Food System Transformation in Face of Environmental Collapse
Now is the time for the real leaders to stand up and work on a European food policy that goes beyond chatter. If they fail, we will have seen just a taste of what is to come for our food system.
Small farms don’t produce 70% of the worlds food – but they could produce all
The key message is that the potential of small farms for global food production is determined by economic conditions rather than biological, ecological or agronomic limitations
Food & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel
On this Reality Roundtable, philosopher and writer Dougald Hine, social scientist and farmer Chris Smaje, and ecologist and farmer Pella Thiel join Nate to discuss the future of food and community.
