By Anastasia Vasileadou, Balkan Seeds Network, ARC2020
By empowering communities to build sustainable local food systems – including new models based on cooperation for the common good – policymakers will be helping to build local economic resilience and taking action to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Despite these criticisms, Regenesis is a valuable book. It challenges us to think outside the box, presents at least some of the dilemmas with which it wrestles in an even-handed way and introduces us to a technology we may hear more about in future, whether we like it or not.
By Natalia Mamonova, ARC2020
The debates on food security versus sustainability in the context of the war in Ukraine have revitalised a longstanding debate on “who will feed the world”.
By Vicki Robin, Betsy Taylor, Resilience.org
Betsy Taylor is president of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions LLC. For over thirty years, Betsy Taylor has built a solid reputation as a philanthropic advisor, social change leader, motivational speaker and problem solver. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Chris Maughan, Agroecology Now!
In food and agricultural systems, there will always be a place for measurement, but in knowledge-intensive terrain of agroecological grain production and artisanal baking there must also be space for reincorporating what we feel.
By Andrés Bernal Sánchez, Juanita Rico, Open Democracy
Agroecological processes, like the ones promoted by this exemplary project, are an essential part of the reconstruction of a local, balanced, fair and sustainable economy, which will keep young people in the region and contribute to a transformation of the countryside where the values of sustainability and food sovereignty prevail over an extractivist tradition that has wreaked havoc in the region for too long.
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Recognising the damage caused by synthetic fertiliser, the SFT and others in the sustainable farming sector have long been advocating a switch toward more agroecological farming systems.
By Diana Lilia Trevilla Espinal, Isabel Álvarez Vispo, Agroecology Now!
On International Women’s day, March 8, 2022, we launched an animation called ‘For feminist agroecologies’ that invites you to ask yourself questions about your food, and about what food system you want to contribute to.
By Oliver Moore, Ashley Parsons, ARC2020
Yet again, now is supposedly not the time to do the very things that would reduce our exposure to destructive inputs. There is a fear that this terrible war in Ukraine will give European business-as-usual forces one more excuse turn the EU Green Deal into that potentially perfect but always elusive pie in the sky.
By Vicki Hird, Sustainable Food Trust
There are exciting opportunities for using land on the edge of cities – the peri-urban (areas adjacent to urban settlements) fringe – to provide more agroecologically produced food and to connect urban and rural economies through food growing.
By Lorena Cotza, Ouafa Haddioui, Open Democracy
Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local producers.
By Chris Maughan, Dominic Amos, Agroecology Now!
However we proceed, we very much consider the plant bioindicator method alongside a host of other tools for deepening our connection with land.