Food & Water

Guatemalan Farmers Occupy Plantation Formerly Owned by Drug Traffickers

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Since September 2016, 135 families associated with the Committee for Campesino Unity, also known by its Spanish acronym CUC, have maintained an occupation of a finca, or a large plantation, named Las Palmeras near the municipality of Cuyotenango.

How Artists and Neighbors Turned a Bomb Site Into a Medicine Garden

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It was a fenced-off World War II bomb site that had rewilded, and a team of London artists decided it was the perfect place to grow a medicine garden. The site is in the middle of a social housing complex in the Bethnal Green neighborhood of Tower Hamlets, a London borough that has become the U.K.’s second most densely populated local authority, the basic unit of local government.

Food Policy, Sustainability, and Basic Income – a U.S. Perspective

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The U.S. Congress will be considering renewing the Farm Bill before the current authorization expires on September 30, 2018.  As Feasta members commemorate 20 years of innovative policy ideas, sustainable food policy will continue to be a top priority. 

Madrid’s Community Gardens

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In common with other critical social movements, the community gardens presented their demands under the umbrella of the right to the city, understood not as a legal claim, but as citizens’ right to intervene in the city, to build it and transform it.

Relocalising the Food Chain: Why it Matters and How to Do it

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One of the greatest benefits of local food is that it enables the public to form a new relationship with the people who grow and process their food. We can meet the producers and ask questions. What chemicals are they using? Do their animals look well cared for? Are they a good employer? Do they contribute to their community?

Grains of Truth and Falsehood About Grain, Bean, and Veggie Storage

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New disaster planning standards for a newly urbanized, wired, hyper-complex and vulnerable world mean that food storage needs to be reevaluated and re-appreciated in light of global considerations that were not considered back in the 1990s, when the need for public control of food storage was poo-poohed.