Safeguarding Native Genetics
We need the diversity that rare breeds represent. Today’s generation needs to understand how relevant traditional breeds are to modern food production.
Building resilient food and farming systems
Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty in West Africa
The West African part of the action-research programme – Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty – has made a conscious effort to include members of both advocacy and practitioner movements.
Understanding Where our Bread is Really Buttered
My overriding (and underlying) point is that Agriculture and Land Use (/abuse) are fundamental to everything else and they are not given a fraction of the attention they deserve
The Great Divide
Our increasing disconnection from our rural origins represents an increasing disconnection from ourselves, compromising our ability to flourish. Perhaps it’s time to rethink our disconnect with food and bridge that great divide.
Rajasthan: A Seed Story
In my work, growing and saving seeds of rare and endangered cash crops, I was keen to gain an understanding of the challenges and realities for an expanding cohort of horticulturalists that were continuing a traditional, low-input sustainable model of cultivation and responding to an increasing demand for organically grown produce.
“The Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us”
For as long as humans have engaged in agriculture, and even before, we’ve relied on healthy soil and the organisms it supports.
Flowers of the Food Forest: Reciprocity and the Obligation of Gifts
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
Seed of Self-Worth: Reviving the Lost Foods of Palestine
The problem Vivien identified, of people not wanting to be who they are, is reflected throughout many cultures. Even in the UK, there is a disconnect between wider society and traditional farming practices.
Five Dollars a Day is Not Enough for Five a Day
Very few traditional farming systems have had a high share of fruits and vegetables unless you include starchy crops like plantains, potatoes, cassava or yams in your definition.
Growing a Revolution: Review
The good news is that despite the barriers mentioned earlier, conservation agriculture is catching on—it’s just happening more slowly, spreading from the ground up as farmers note that the local weirdo using these practices keeps getting better yields.
‘Regenerative Agriculture’: World-Saving Idea or Food Marketing Ploy?
For people feeling that they have fallen from grace, who yearn to return to a time without fossil fuels, the idea of regenerative agriculture could hold real power.
A Green New Deal for Agriculture
The Green New Deal’s success depends on refashioning this common sense. To rewrite common sense is to unpick the alliances that the current bloc works to maintain, to find the fault lines that can pry that bloc apart, and to develop the organizational links that can build a counter-hegemonic bloc.
