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.
Food & Water
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.
What I Learned from my First Garden
This year, I started my first garden—a micro garden really.
How Three U.S. Mini-Farms are Sowing the Seeds of Global Food Security
Biointensive farms use 50 to 75 percent less land and 94 to 99 percent less energy to produce a given amount of food than does conventional farming.Research shows that biointensive farms use 50 to 75 percent less land, 50 to 100 percent less fertilizer, 67 to 88 percent less water and 94 to 99 percent less energy to produce a given amount of food than does conventional farming.
Restaurant Revolutionaries Fighting Food Waste
According to research by the charity WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), the amount of food that is wasted annually in UK pubs and restaurants is equivalent to throwing away one in every six of the eight billion meals served each year.
The Potato Park of Peru
Drive an hour northeast from Cusco, Peru, and you will encounter some beautiful high mountain lakes, historic Inca ruins, and the richest diversity of potatoes on the planet.
Sheepwrecked or wheatwrecked? Towards a Wessex pastoral
A loose confederation of animal welfare activists, human health activists and environmentalists have popularised the view that globally we need to produce less meat and livestock, and it’s not a view I’ll quarrel with for the most part.
Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller on the Sustainability & Resilience of Our Food System
I feel inordinately lucky to be able to do this work – despite the fact that it often feels overwhelming or frightening.
Vegetable Agenda: Where art and vegetables meet
The moment that you arrive at Blaenffos Market Garden in Pembrokeshire you can see that there is an artist’s hand at work…
