Water is life: Can we protect it?
The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme weather disasters shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
Food & Water
Can organic farming feed the world?
I discuss various aspects of so-called ‘alternative’ agriculture at some length in Chapter 6 of A Small Farm Future, and I don’t intend to retrace many of those steps here. But there’s a couple of further things I do want to say in this blog cycle. Here, I’ll focus on organic farming.
Roots of Resilience: How CAP, Farm to Fork, and Land Policies can Support an Agroecological Transition in Europe
It is time to rediscover the roots of our resilience by grounding land policy in collective action and democratic forms of land politics. That’s according to a new report led by Transnational Institute. T
Donations to Black-Led Food and Land Organizations Shift from Charitable Giving to True Reparations
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Don’t throw the cow out with the feedlot
While there are many environmental and ethical reasons to criticize industrial forms of livestock production, there are no valid reasons to shun the rearing of livestock in general.
Planet Farm
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy
The fat-takers cross the oceans
From its beginnings more than five centuries ago, European colonization has been based on an unsustainable exploitation of resources.
Resources for a better future: Permaculture
Permaculture has transformative potential when practitioners move away from promoting it as a depoliticized set of ecological design practices and principles.
In Search of Mycotopia: Excerpt
The average person can be forgiven for a lack of fungal literacy. After centuries preoccupied with plants and animals, the institutions of natural science have been slow to prioritize fungi, and few of us receive even a basic education in their biology or ecology.
Hot off the press: Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism
Building on state-of-the-art and participatory research on farming, urbanism, food policy and advocacy, this new book changes the ways food planning has been conceptualised to date, and invites the reader to fully embrace the transformative potential of an agroecological perspective.
Home is not the house but where the garden is
My title is a quotation from archaeologist Francis Pryor’s book about ‘prehistoric’ Britain, but it serves well enough as a summary of the general argument in my own book about our likely global future, and the need to refocus the household from a place of economy to a place of ecology
Is Farming the Problem?
Is farming a mistake? Up until a generation or two ago, you would find no people of any background who would make this assertion — even though we’ve been farming for thousands of years and presumably if it was a bad thing it might have occurred to someone else before now to say so.
