SHARECITY100: Exploring Food Sharing in 100 Cities
SHARECITY100 is a database of more than 4000 food sharing enterprises across 100 cities around the world, including Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, and Europe.
Food & Water
Factoring Sustainable Labour into the Sustainable Food Equation
What makes food sustainable?
Grassroots Activists Tackle Food Waste and the Refugee Crisis
What does food waste and the refugee crisis have in common?
Why I’m still a Populist Despite Donald Trump – Elements of a Left-Wing Agrarian Populism
When Trump and the Brexiteers fail to deliver on their promises, as they surely will, a political moment might arise when (perhaps helped with a wave of the wand) there’s a chance to install a left-wing, agrarian-oriented, internationalist form of populism.
The True Cost of Food
For true cost accounting to work, we must share knowledge and data, and adopt a more systemic way of thinking.
A Fever in the Night
My worst imaginings are for uncertainties for which you can’t model an outcome.
Reinventing Farming for Better Food and a Better Future
Old McDonald of E-I-E-I-O fame would feel right at home on Essex Farm, a 600-acre spread in the Adirondacks where the future of American agriculture is being radically reconceived.
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: The Guerrila Update
I believe that is one of the things we’ve all learned since 1986. Neo-liberal governments have shut down action much more than they have shut down research and policy, and that’s one of the reasons why peaceful guerilla methods need to be explored.
Decision Time
There can only be one topic for a blog post today, as a great country stands poised to make a momentous decision with potentially global repercussions… I refer, of course, to the Peasants’ Republic of Wessex…
Decision Time
Such is the recipe for our farming decisions: pragmatic optimism, seasoned with conservative management of resources; ample hard work; choices made based on what is possible. Ah, that our political leaders adhered to the same.
Reconnecting to our Land
How far back in your family history do you have to go to find someone who made a living working the land?
A new Farmer in Chief – what’s next?
Hillary Clinton’s likely pick for Secretary of Agriculture will be a disaster in many ways for any and all efforts to revamp our approach to agriculture at any level except the industrial, high input model with all of its attendant problems.
