Pinning Big Hopes on Small Food Policy
The global pattern of nation states’ persistent neglect of the world’s most pressing issues is the unstated background to today’s precedent-breaking discussions about cities and food.
Food & Water
Fresh Ideas on Food Access
There are many community-based programmes as well that make it possible for a variety of low-income populations to benefit by buying from farmers’ markets in the US, giving farmers a boost too.
Cuba’s sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw
If relations with U.S. agribusiness companies are not managed carefully, Cuba could revert to an industrial approach that relies on mechanization, transgenic crops and agrochemicals, rolling back the revolutionary gains that its campesinos have achieved.
Factual science and maybe science
I am not against genetic modification but only against the way that herbicide manufacturers are using it to justify patenting any plant in nature that interests them and then, in my opinion, trying to use the patents to gain unfair monopolies in the food and farm economy.
Back to Organic Farming
Emma Ben-Haouala Bernegger has established her own brand of organic products in Tunisia, reviving traditional methods.
World Water Day! – Iconic Woodstock, NY Fights Water Battle and Wins
An attempted Niagara Bottling Company water grab in iconic Woodstock New York was a defining moment for Rachel Marco Havens.
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid!
If we grew the oats we should eat for breakfast or baking, we would plant 25000 more hectares in oats that would generate 241 new jobs and $3.8 million in taxes…but it might cause a decline in sales of laxatives…
Scratch An American, Find A Farmer
Old sayings like “scratch a Christian, find a pagan” or “scratch a Russian, find a Tartar,” have a counterpart in agriculture: Scratch an American, find a farmer.
Uncommon Nonprofit Embraces Urban Agriculture to Break Cycle of Poverty
In 2011, Nancy Mintie, founder of Claremont, CA-based Uncommon Good saw in urban agriculture an opportunity to help fulfill her organization’s mission to break intergenerational poverty cycles and give people the tools to lift themselves up.
Joel Salatin: The Promise of Regenerative Farming
Front man for the sustainable/regenerative farming movement, Joel Salatin, returns to the podcast this week.
Sustainable Growing for Social Good
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about sustainable growing in strictly environmental terms.
The Agrihood Project
An agrihood is a housing development built around a market garden and food forest.
