To Feed or to Profit? To Eat or to Consume?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

We can no longer let the distribution method - the market - dictate how we farm and how we eat. We need to develop new tools and institutions in order to cater for the many functions of food and farming.  A process of decommodification should be at the core of the alternative food movement.

In Defense of the Commons

By Shalmali Guttal, Mary Ann Manahan, Commons Transition

This article identifies some of the threats to the commons and highlights the resistance of local people.

On the Commodification of Human Discovery

By David Bollier, David Bollier blog

Free Knowledge is a welcome survey of alarming impacts of IP law and also valuable introduction to some salutary alternatives.