‘Diet for a Small Planet’ (1971)
Fifty years after its publication, and about to be reissued in a new ‘Fiftieth Anniversary’ edition, ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ remains completely relevant and up-to-date because it was so ahead of its time.
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Where do we go from here?
We need to move forward with agroecological regenerative mixed rotational farming that embraces a holistic engagement with the land that is farmed, ensuring that everything in and on it has a place within a frame of practice that could be called ‘Ecology Now’.
Farming Bounded By Our Biological Boundaries – Part 1
We must adopt an ecosystem approach to identify sustainable food systems that can exist within our planet’s boundaries, argues Stuart Meikle in the first of a four-part series.
Transforming Cape Town’s Covid soup kitchens into spaces of dignity – a community vision
User-workers of the community kitchen contribute by volunteering, while also dishing up in the process. This way, community members believed, the kitchens are not just giving handouts but also creating a space where people can be empowered to become active agents in this process.
India’s Natural Farming Revolution Shows Bold Food Systems Change Is Happening Now
Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) eschews the use of synthetic chemical fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides, catalyzing a radical paradigm shift from conventional chemical based farming to agroecological-based natural farming methods across the state.
On the practice of growing food
It might appear that I made logical decisions as I chose my primary life practice. Instead I only followed my heart, and as the wise ones know, that is often the safest path.
The Autumn Raspberry Harvest
Preserving food is not just ‘cooking’; preserving food requires that you think about the future. Hence why growing and preserving food can be a window into planning a new future.
Challenging the myth of a US food revival
Broadening the understanding of craft products to include raw and value-added products, as well as the shifting the focus away from chefs in urban areas gives a more holistic and diverse picture of what modern southern food looks like today and who is responsible for producing it.
The Grow System: Excerpt
I want to create a movement of families and communities who have these kinds of strong bonds, better health, greater happiness, and more self-sufficiency. I want people to come together to increase the value and meaning in their own lives.
Beekeeping (apiculture): Towards self-reliance, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability
The health, economic and environmental impacts of apiculture as a science of keeping bees to tap natural pure and unadulterated honey and processing honeybee byproducts for various industrial, nutritional and pharmaceutical usefulness cannot be overemphasised.
The Power of Personalizing the Climate Crisis
“You need the kinds of stories of change and of characters that you can believe in, who have gone through this sort of big transformation in order to show you that such a thing is possible—it is necessary and possible,” Patel says.
Sticking to the plot: A celebration of permaculture allotment projects
Often located in the heart of communities, many allotments have become thriving projects, where people gather to learn about growing food and to connect with nature and each other. In this post I will share the story of my allotment site and the medicinal herb garden project I started there last year.
