Seattle Community Farm: Growing Veggies for the Neighborhood
The veggies all go to people who have a hard time affording fresh vegetables.
Food & Water
Review: Blue Future
Blue Future details both progress and regress in the struggle for water justice.
Perennial Rice: In Search of a Greener, Hardier Staple Crop
Scientists have long sought to create a perennial rice that would avoid the damage to the land caused by the necessity of planting annually.
Who Controls Our Food?
A new report from Global Justice Now, From The Roots Up, shows that not only can small-scale organically produced food feed the world, but it can do so better than intensive, corporate-controlled agriculture.
Can Civil Society Change Food?
In an age of disruptive change, where trends in global politics shift at an unprecedented rate, civil society organisations could be the only solution capable of grounding the debate on sustainable food and pushing for the change so urgently needed.
Debunking the Myth of “Peak Farmers Market”
Following the release of a new USDA report titled “Trends in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems,” food blogs erupted earlier this month with provocative headlines like “Are Farmers Market Sales Peaking?” and “Has the Farmers Market Movement Peaked?”
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
Agroecology means that we stand together in the circle of life, and this implies that we must also stand together in the circle of struggle against land grabbing and the criminalization of our movements.
Building Urban Food Resilience
Central to Permaculture is the idea of creating resilient systems.
Real Food Media Contest Features Oyster Men of Long Island Sound
The Oyster Men features the daily lives of baymen who handpick oysters from wild populations on the Long Island Sound.
If We’re Serious about Saving Bees and Butterflies, Here’s What We Should Do
If pollinator health is made a priority, to be successful much current policy and practice must change.
Get Growing Breightmet: Bolton’s food growing revolution begins here!
If you have a fairly spacious garden like many of the people we work with have, growing your own food in times of extreme economic uncertainty is a practical and direct solution that many people are just opening their eyes to…
Mali: Agroecology Is in our Hands!
“I decided to come here because we are building a necessary movement, that will claim back what was always ours: our peasant knowledge of doing agriculture”, said a woman farmer from Mali, as she was running to attend the women caucus, this afternoon.
