Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador
Amid ongoing colonization, the Indigenous Shuar people are taking back control of their economic and political futures.
Food & Water
The blessing and the curse of the straight line
Almost all that we cover in the word development, or civilization, are based on straight lines, flat earth and shortage of time. The effects are not only limited to the rest of the living, it also affects us.
From Learning to Doing: Cliff Scholz on Reskilling
Cliff Scholz –advocate for healthy food and farming and the originator of the Green Hand Reskilling concept– chats with Post Carbon Institute’s Rob Dietz about what it takes to turn knowledge into action to make your community more resilient.
Saving Seeds for Climate Justice
As a small research team of activists, practitioners and early career researchers participating in the British Council Farming for Climate Justice Programme we set out to learn more about the potential role of farmer-led and community-saved seeds in realising just climate resilience.
Marburg Food Dialogue – Putting more regional produce on the menu
How can restaurants serve more regional produce? A networking event at the Creativity and Social Innovation Hub Marburg (CIM) brought together local restaurant operators, suppliers, civil society actors and employees of the city and district to discuss this question
5 Ways Permaculture Must Change
For permaculture to meet its potential, I believe these things must change. This list isn’t meant to be comprehensive. It’s just five things that I tend to notice often.
Stagtine: Review
So what does happen when a family, with four hundred acres of historically abused land on their hands, decides to let go and let the land lead the way? To find that out, you’ll have to buy the book and read it yourself, which I wholeheartedly recommend.
A market economy without capitalism
Can there be a market economy without capitalism? That is the question of today’s post.
Letter From A Future Farmer | Rethinking The Farm From The Ground Up
As a wider reflection on succession, if farming families are able to pass on their core values – which in the majority of cases include safeguarding land, and producing good quality food at fair prices – as opposed to their outdated and sometimes damaging operational methods, we will see truly significant transformations in our food systems.
Cows, capital and growth
The long term opportunities for growth of my herd and the growth of global capitalism are the same. None.
Food ecomodernism and the emptying of politics, Part II: or, jesters and mystics
How do we decarbonise and degrow the economy while nourishing ourselves not only physically, but also socially and culturally? I can’t see any plausible answer to that question which doesn’t involve embracing a greater emphasis on diverse small-scale farming to meet local needs – which was part of the point of writing Saying NO…
The garden improving community health through food
Residents are helping to make Knowle West a healthier place, backed by a £20,000 funding pot. Shaping Places, an NHS and local government programme, is designed to improve community health through changes to local social, environmental and economic systems, from food security to mental health and fear of antisocial behaviour.
