The Big Picture of Wasted Food
If we want to see food waste, we have to look beyond landfill sites.
Food & Water
Rethinking Water
Journalist Judith D. Schwartz turns her attention to one of the biggest socio-economic-ecological issues of the 21st century – water management – in her new book, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World.
Good Nutrition Begins in the Soil
For the soil is the gut – the source of nourishment – for the plants we farmers grow. And it now seems there is a vital link between the microbiome of our intestines and the microbiome of the soil.
A Big Bang for Big Soil
Where does soil come from? In keeping with the big-picture perspective of this series, let’s tackle that question from the god’s-eye perspective. We can zero in on the finer points later.
Allotment Holders Cultivate Public Space
Why would the Slovenian Public Radio, the Botanical Garden at the University of Ljubljana and a number of volunteers all express interest in an area along a railway line?
A Neo-Peasant Farm in Wessex
Without further ado, I’m going to describe the layout of an ‘average’ 10 hectare holding in the Peasant’s Republic of Wessex, circa 2039, as introduced in various preceding posts.
Food Sovereignty in Rebellion: Decolonization, Autonomy, Gender Equity, and the Zapatista Solution
One of the biggest threats to food security the world currently faces is neoliberalism.
Monsanto, temptation and some ‘adolescent’ farmers
Monsanto has done the equivalent of giving a teenage boy the keys to the family car and then telling him that he can’t drive it. We know what comes next.
Alleycat Acres Puts New Twist on Community Gardens in Seattle
Alleycat Acres has survived the immense challenge of losing farms to development and recommitted to their mission to reconnect people, place and produce.
Rural Sociology
For mutual interests to come to the fore, each city and each rural area surrounding a city needs to become intertwined and re-entangled.
Declaration of La Via Campesina Delegation to the 2016 World Social Forum
"We not only believe that another world is necessary, the members of La Vía Campesina are already building a better world."
Watching the Watchers
The exercise is based on the notion that we could, if collectively we so chose, organise ourselves into more localised and labour-intensive polities and economies, and that if we did so we might better secure our health and general wellbeing at a lower energetic and carbon cost.
