Just four corporations own our food systems – and we’re the ones paying the price
The concentration of power in the agrifood sector is nothing new, but findings from a new report warn that corporate concentration has reached “unprecedented levels”.
Food System
Decolonizing food systems through bioregional eating
Food system change was a tool of colonization. If changing what people eat can change everything, then food system change can also be a tool of liberation.
Biocultural Heritage: The Foundation of a Sustainable Economy
All the foods at Porta Palazzo share something in common. You can trace each type of food to a particular ecosystem and a particular way of life for the people who inhabit (or once inhabited) that ecosystem.
Food ENERGY: Processing
It is difficult to say whether our eating habits are driven by changes in the food system or vice versa.
Food Movement: Wheels, Water, Rail, and Air
When we hit the distribution issue, we see the challenge of taking on the Goliaths of the food world with nothing but a slingshot in the form of a pickup truck.
Rebuilding the Foodshed: Fields of ENERGY
From Chapter 4 (Energy) of the latest Resilience guide, ‘Rebuilding the Foodshed’. This is a heck of a chapter…If you eat food, grow food, use energy, create energy, or make waste, you’ll find yourself fascinated.
Food Fight!
Vandana Shiva goes hip-hop!? A serious message is packed into this comedic musical video. Warning – this might make you choke on your breakfast.
Fossil Food & Agriculture – Richard Heinberg Q&A
While researching the topic of sustainable agriculture for a paper, high school junior Rhian Moore came across the work of PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. Rhian reached out to Richard for more information on the topic. Below are Rhian’s questions and Richard’s brief responses. We think they make for a nice primer of sorts.
The Unintended Impacts of Natural Gas on Food & Transportation: Web chat
Read the transcript from our live webchat about natural gas. David Hughes (author of ‘Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?’), Michael Bomford and Richard Gilbert answer questions from readers.
Film Review: ‘Food Inc.’
At this year’s Soil Association conference I was chatting with Mike Small of the Fife Diet in Scotland. He told a story about how a film crew from Sky News came up to Fife to do a news story about their work. While they were filming, Mike chatted to the director and asked him what was the angle on the story. "Well", said the director, "it’s about a community eating local food". "Amazing to think that that’s now seen as news!" said Mike. Of course, now such a thing is news, so bizarrely distorted has our food system (and our media, but that’s another story) become. Unfortunately the sprawling monster that actually now feeds most of us isn’t news, but only because it is so well hidden, something that the excellent new film "Food Inc" tries to change.
