There Is Enough Food, Just Not Enough Food Access
Tran locates the need for community fridges in the same problem that Roman sees: A lack of equitable distribution of the abundance of food we already have.
Food & Water
Nitrogen fertilizer is not a climate solution
Nitrogen fertilizers are not just a technicality, they are a major building block in the industrial, global and capitalist agriculture system. As such they both drive and enable the increasing metabolic rift between human society and the ecosystem that sustains it.
Renegade projections and the domestic mode of production: for Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021)
The household is oriented to meeting its own socially defined needs. There is no inherent tendency to the amplification of production or the accumulation of wealth.
What We’re Reading: Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation
We at TomKat Ranch hope that this article, and hopefully many others that will follow in its footsteps, will show that a transition to regenerative agriculture must not only be scientific and data-driven, but also empathetic, patient, and committed to building trusting and supportive relationships.
Seed saving and sharing key to a grassroots food revolution
Seed sharing has become a global phenomenon that can secure diverse and nutritious food for generations to come. We can all learn how to do it, too.
Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
Between the decline of feudalism and the rise of industrial capitalism, rural society was transformed by the complex of processes that are collectively known as enclosure.
For farmers, by farmers: an interview with GrownBy’s Lindsey Lusher Shute
Launched in early 2021, GrownBy allows users to find farms in their area, order products, and sign up for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) plans.
Q&A: Will England’s National Food Strategy help tackle climate change?
Last week, part two of England’s National Food Strategy (NFS) was published, providing a broad overview of the state of the “food system” – an all-encompassing term that covers the production, processing, transport and consumption of food – in England.
Leveraging collaboration to tap into the potential of local foods
With farming being the root of the nation’s food supply, former President Barack Obama’s administration launched a federal Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) program in 2014.
Is Education the answer to transforming agriculture in Ireland? Or how to create a living sourdough process
Although Ireland still has a fairly good natural environment in comparison with some other countries, we are putting ourselves in grave danger because of the tendency to damage and even destroy our natural environment in the pursuit of commercial profits.
The nitrogen challenge for organic agriculture
It is often claimed that half of the global food supply is made possible by the use of chemical fertilizers, but is it true that we will starve if all farms in the world were organic?
Nobody is real: A Small Farm Future meets A People’s Green New Deal
Nobody is real. Or everybody is. What’s real is how we have to make a material livelihood, and in this people are a lot more constrained by the ecological feedback of the world around them than most currents of modern political thought seem to believe.
