Rural Resilience | Diary from the Ground – Autumn 2023
Because food is much more than a stomach to be filled, actions on the ground in France are focusing on the social barriers to local, healthy food for all.
Food & Water
Can Agriculture and Biodiversity Coexist?
Building new reciprocal relations to landscapes, where humans reconcile food production and biodiversity, represents a true alternative to environmental degradation.
Back to the future through mixed farming
So it’ll be a case of back to the future with mixed farming as a key component of the food system (not everywhere, because we’re talking local context, not one size fits all solutionism … but mixed farming in its endless local variants will loom large).
Rāhui and the Art of Marine Conservation
A rāhui is, in essence, an area of land or water with a temporary limit on collecting a resource, such as a particular fish or fruit. In time, once the resource has had time to replenish, the rāhui is lifted.
David Holmgren: “Small and Slow Solutions – Permaculture Design”
On this episode, Nate is joined by ‘permaculture’ author and educator David Holmgren to discuss his experience within the movement and what it might look like for more systems to be designed using permaculture in the future.
How to adapt?
Now is not the time to try to remediate the hopeless causes. Now is the time to abandon the Titanic as quickly as possible and head for open water before it takes us all down to the icy depths.
Chris Smaje Vs. George Monbiot and the Debate on the Future of Farming
We need constructive debates about food and farming so that we can find the best ideas for addressing the desperate business at hand: figuring out how to live healthily on a healthy planet.
Planet Local Summit – International Vision for a Localised Future
Global network Local Futures, organiser of the three-day event, calls for a gravitation to localised systems to support local economies and sustainable communities. It’s about “shifting power from transnational corporations to genuinely democratic institutions, while simultaneously building up regional self-reliance.”
Kayaking with Lambs: Excerpt
Somewhere—the gravel road I grew up on, the wharf I fished from, the woods at the end of the road where we roamed, the edge of the bayou where we fought off pirates to keep them from landing—is no longer. It is now an anywhere of pavement, sidewalks, a Walmart, hotels, casinos, and housing developments. Anywhere is nowhere.
Crop Wild Relative Conservation through Checkoff Programs
Mobilizing funds for the proper conservation and utilization of crop wild relative conservation is quite difficult. Exploring available options to coordinate investment by industry actors is one potentially strong strategy to pursue this goal.
New worlds to build
There’s real work of transformative adaptation to do to rise to present challenges – unsung, grassroots and local.
Review: Kayaking with Lambs
Kayaking with Lambs is a collection of essays mostly pulled from Brian Miller’s richly authentic farm journal, A South Roane Agrarian, where the author and sybaritic farmer in residence deals out eloquent vignettes of living and working on an East Tennessee farm.
