Eating The Platter Clean
These so-called “default” livestock don’t compete for food with humans: they are fed on matter that humans can’t or won’t eat, mostly grass, leaves and waste materials, which they turn into food for humans.
Building resilient food and farming systems
Fully Engaged Farming at Sophie’s Icelandic Sheep
There is never a quiet season here. Even with the hoop houses cleared of their summer harvest and the small flock of Icelandic sheep fresh from a fall shearing, the farm is still rich with growth.
A Regenerative Food System is Both a Means and an End
Continued intensification of the food system will lead to increased pressure on nature as well as the continued erosion of food culture.
Measuring Sustainability for Fairer Future Policy
At this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference the Sustainable Food Trust will be convening a session delving into one of the most important issues for future farming policy in the UK – how do we measure on-farm sustainability and bring about convergence in the multitude of conflicting and overlapping assessment and certification systems currently being used?
Stream Farm – A New Model for New Entrants
With the average age of a UK farmer at 59, we have never been more in need of a new generation of farmers. How can we help support more new entrants? I met with James Odgers to find out about the exciting concept that Stream Farm is developing through their innovative ‘share farming’ model.
What about Wool?
Wool, with its unique natural properties, is one of the most versatile and historically important materials, which can be used for everything from clothing to insulation.
How to Cope with Largely Dysfunctional Market Signals for Soil Stewardship?
But farmers are not encouraged by market signals and mechanisms to be land stewards. On the contrary, modern day farming has removed much of the land husbandry and stewardship that was previously an integral part of a regenerative farming system.
Indigenous Gardens Boost Food Sovereignty in Canada
Indigenous communities in the remote northern portion of Canada’s province of Ontario are expanding efforts to mitigate the impact of high food costs and a general lack of available nutritious fruit and vegetables in supermarkets by increasing crop production.
Strengthening a Transformative Agroecology Learning Approach in Europe: Four Pillars
Is there something distinctive about an agroecological approach to training and learning? How is learning a part of the struggle for food sovereignty, or other social movements for social justice and sustainability? What examples are there of this in Europe? And how can these projects be supported and developed?
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
The solution to these problems involves more than a commitment to ecological models of food production: it also requires a commitment to local food economies.
Made In The Shade: Erik Hoffner on Agroforestry
This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn all about agroforestry from Erik Hoffner, an editor at Mongabay. Hoffner takes a look at examples of agroforestry efforts around the globe, examines recent investments into the sector and shows how it stacks up to large, industrial agricultural systems.
The Battle for the Future of Farming: What You Need to Know
So. Do you want to live in a world in which artificial food is produced by intelligent robots and corporations that put profits before people? Or one where agroecological innovations ensure we can nourish ourselves and our communities in a fair, ecologically regenerative, and culturally rich way?
