Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Today, some of the most promising efforts toward food sovereignty in Venezuela are coming from citizen-run social institutions known as comunas, which are forging relationships and carrying out innovative projects across the urban–rural divide.
The veggies all go to people who have a hard time affording fresh vegetables.
Blue Future details both progress and regress in the struggle for water justice.
Scientists have long sought to create a perennial rice that would avoid the damage to the land caused by the necessity of planting annually.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
Central to Permaculture is the idea of creating resilient systems.
The Oyster Men features the daily lives of baymen who handpick oysters from wild populations on the Long Island Sound.
If pollinator health is made a priority, to be successful much current policy and practice must change.
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…
