Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 | New Dawn For Solidarity
After three action-packed days, the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 ended on a positive note, forging hope from solidarity.
Food & Water
Planting Agroecology in the Sacred Desert of Wirikuta
All had come to Las Margaritas to attend a free intensive agroecology workshop led by Gerardo Ruiz Smith, a Mexican regenerative agriculture expert, and coordinated by the Wixarika Research Center as the first stone of a long-term project that seeks to restore and regenerate the desert in what many have come to call the “botanical garden” of Wirikuta.
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1
Marion and Benjamin welcome us in the farm yard with a big smile. Their farm, “Le Buis Sonnant” in Brittany, is a place that quietly questions the current state of farming and how it’s changing. Buying land, succession, sharing of responsibilities… discussion around the hot topics is even-handed and open-minded.
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 in review
Our conversations at the ORFC are so valuable, especially as we move forward in a world that sits on a tipping point. We need to share these conversations with people outside our relatively small circle of believers.
Sand talking: can indigenous wisdom save the world?
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country
Jason Tartt, a farmer in West Virginia, says the Mountain State is fertile territory for honey production and maple and fruit orchards in the flood plains. Tartt, who is Black, sees his role as both developing economic opportunity through farming and supporting other Black farmers in West Virginia.
Agroecology: Food system transformation from farm to plate
Agroecological approaches are anchored in human rights, rooted in culturally and ecologically diverse knowledge systems, and have the potential to build the community resilience necessary to deal with both the forces of climate change and corporate control.
European Action Days 2021 – Good Food Good Farming on the Ground
Together, as activists, farmers, foodies, beekeepers and more, we sent a clear message to European leaders: Sustainable food and farming is possible, many farmers are already living the change and we as civil society know the recipe to change food and farming.
“Spirituality has been a common glue”: An interview with La Via Campesina’s Paul Nicholson
What roles does spirituality play in food sovereignty struggles? To what extent do spirituality and religion support or impede movement building?
Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Introduction
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.
These apps aim to reduce the social and environmental impacts of food waste
Addressing the food waste epidemic requires us to widen our perspective and develop practical, comprehensive solutions that can be implemented by everyday people. A number of tech companies and nonprofits have developed apps aimed at doing just that.
