By John Thackara, John Thackara blog
A new course in Sweden poses the question, “what will a self-sufficient Hällefors Municipality taste like in 2030?” Students on the course act like talent scouts. They search for unrealised food-growing potential across the region – people, unused land, forgotten traditions.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
This is how a future that includes me was created. This, place-based farming, is wisdom. And, I suspect that, in places like mine, this is the only path that can lead to another future millennium.
By Hannes Lorenzen, ARC2020
Beyond the classical thematic advocacy for organic farming, animal welfare and nature conservation there is a new opportunity to embrace the climate, biodiversity, CAP, job-sharing movements – and the desire to reach a humane work-life balance.
By Zia Gallina, La Bella Terra
Once we understood the intrinsic value of the natural world, not just what it contributes to our well-being, our economy and the local ecology, there was no going back.
By Colin Anderson, Ernesto Méndez, Patrick Mulvaney, Faris Ahmed, Agroecology Now!
By working with – not against – nature, and diversifying our farms, landscapes, fishing waters and the foods we eat, agroecology supports biodiversity, contributes to the majority of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes resilience. All while supporting livelihoods and some of the healthier diets on the planet.
By Michaela Haas, YES! magazine
Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
It looks set to be another stimulating start to the year for real foodies and regenerative farmers as the Oxford Real Farming Conference, “the largest gathering of the agroecological movement on the planet”, returns from 4 – 6 January 2023.
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium.com
In short, keeping animals teaches you how to respect life. You respect it when you raise it, and you respect it if you take it, and you certainly do not look at food in the same way.
By Nolan Monaghan, Resilience.org
Looking at the food system in a holistic manner and employing a diverse set of strategies is the best way to ensure lasting and stable change.
By Chris McCartney, Transition Together
Building resilient local communities is at the heart of Transition; and access to good quality, fresh food that is healthy, for people and planet, is a core element.
By Rohan Rice, Red Pepper
Founded in 2010, SCF is run as a community benefit society, a type of co-operative, whereby the farm business is owned by roughly 400 members of the public and counting.
By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable
In French, the word for food processing is the same as the word for sweeping social change: transformation. Alex Beaudin dreams of doing both.