The EU Wants to Block Romania’s 51% Local Food Shift. Who Cares?
Amid all the mayhem and turmoil of recent weeks, here’s a news story you may have missed.
Food & Water
The Rise of the Supermarkets
The origins of the supermarket are steeped in social purpose.
The Global Farm Land Grab in 2016: How Big, How Bad?
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
Joel Salatin: Sacrifice and Sacredness of Food
We caught up with Joel Salatin, PolyFace Farms, at the Mother Earth News Fair. We asked Joel to talk about our current agricultural system.
Holistic Grazing for Long-Term Resilience
A recent ‘Open-Gate’ day at Croome Court, organised by RegenAg UK and sponsored by Holistic Management International, showed just how beneficial the holistic management of livestock can be.
Female Migrant Farmworkers Push Back Against Machismo and Abuse in California’s Wine Country
Viticulture, or la uva, “the grape,” as Sofia and other Latino farmworkers refer to the sector, also draws undocumented workers, mostly from Mexico and Central America. Journeying to the United States to work is the dream held and died for by hundreds of thousands, but the reality is hard work, long hours, and meager pay.
A Farmer’s Guide to Brexit
I promised a Brexit two-parter with a second post on agriculture, so that’s what I aim to deliver.
30 Ways Cities Can Prepare for Global Warming
There’s a good reason (actually, 30 good reasons covered here…) why no-one has been able to come up with a better term for what’s called “urban agriculture.”
In Venezuela’s Difficult Times the Grassroots are Stronger
‘People are starting to understand how food works. There is no way to move forward until communities become involved in food and production.
Another Side to Food Waste
The food waste debate has gone mainstream…However, there is one side to the story that is often overlooked: the impact of food waste in the Global South.
The Chicago Honey Co-op Works with a Hive Mind
Bees are essential to food production. In response to the massive, global colony collapse problem, myriad urban beekeeping organizations have cropped up around the country.
Food: Trading Away our Future? Part IV
Today, linking farmers to markets is an overarching policy for almost all development agencies as well as governments.
