What Would we Eat if Food and Health were Commons? – Inspiration from Indigenous Populations

By Katarzyna Gajewska, P2P Foundation Blog

Weston Price observed that our ancestors would make a lot of effort to enable their bodies to re-build rather than only to supply energy.

The indigenous and modern relationship between people and animals

By Roger Boyd, Humanity's Test

The treatment of animals, and nature in general, is very different between our modern societies and the remaining indigenous one. We moderns have a lot to learn from the indigenous peoples, and science is tending to agree with them.

Farming with fire: Revaluing a Japanese agricultural tradition

By Takashi Kurata, OurWorld 2.0

Many Japanese people probably think of yakihata (’burned field’ agriculture) as something of the past, or may even consider it primitive. It is not a familiar topic and most people have likely never seen it. Yet, surprisingly, yakihata still takes place around Japan today.

Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan

By Daniel Powell, OurWorld 2.0

In Kyrgyzstan’s Pamir-Alai mountains, remote villages are tucked high among the awe-inspiring panoramas of one of the world’s most rugged biophysical environments. Short bursts of summer and long winter dormancy ensure that the ecosystem, and the livelihoods that it supports, exist in a delicate balance.