Why Cooking Matters
How does the food we eat affect us as people?
Food & Water
Understanding Tribal Agriculture
The predominant attitude of agriculture officials towards tribal communities is to try to convince them to give up their ‘backward’ agriculture and adopt more ‘modern’ and ‘high productivity’ agricultural practices.
Organic Farming News Almost Too Good
I attended the annual conference of the Ohio Ecological Food And Farm Association recently and as usual it really lifted my spirits
Trading Greenbacks for Green Lawns
What’s better than tearing out your water guzzling, time-consuming lawn and replacing it with more sustainable, more appropriate plants?
Growing the Growers: Communication and Wellbeing on Farms
The practical and economic challenges faced by those involved in farming are enormous. But just as important are the psychological and emotional ones, especially when working collaboratively within a group.
Hub-to-school: Vermont Food Hubs and Schools Work Together to Drive Localization of the Food System
Food hubs and farm-to-school programs are essential mechanisms in increasing access to food produced locally and sustainably.
Can the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy help Build a New Economy in Greece?
As Greece enters its seventh consecutive year of deep recession, the country’s debt crisis looks more and more like an unsolvable riddle.
Plants are not Accountants, and Heaven can Wait: Perennial Grains Revisited
It’s been about a year since I published my article on perennial grain crops in the journal Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems1 so maybe it’s time to revisit this teasing topic
Sustainability is Complex: There is no Single Diet Solution
We face huge challenges in feeding the world sustainably. But one thing is certain: grazing ruminant livestock – and the high-quality food they produce – can and should play a key role.
Organic Produce from the Former Township
In an affluent neighborhood of Windhoek, two young men from the former township are selling organic produce. John and Immanuel Negongo are revolutionizing Namibian agriculture.
Part-timers Do Most of the Farming
I don’t know how the idea got started that real farmers are full time farmers.
Crispr is Coming to Agriculture, with Big Implications for Food, Farmers, Consumers, and Nature
Very few technologies truly merit the epithet “game changer” — but a new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is one of them.
