By PennElys Droz, YES! magazine
Colonization, through genocide, land theft, and the imposition of private property, has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations.
By Jessica Milgroom, Annette Drewes, Agroecology Now!
This article describes a tool called the Tribal Adaptation Menu that provides a set of concrete, practical strategies, approaches and tactics for how to incorporate indigenous thinking into planning, policy, research and interventions for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
By Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) Staff, Common Dreams
We, 50 organizations focused on food sovereignty and justice worldwide, want you to know there is no shortage of practical solutions and innovations by African farmers and organizations. We invite you to step back and learn from those on the ground.
By Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, YES! magazine
The modern food system has a huge carbon footprint. These Indian cafés want to change that.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
The big challenge is not to produce more food but to develop a food system built on a more humble view of the role of humans in nature.
By Pat Mooney, Open Democracy
As economies tumble, inflation surges and global food prices soar to critically high levels, two sectors seem to have hit the jackpot in 2022 – energy giants and grain traders.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
You could say that Cecosesola has learned how to ignore the market and set its own terms for providing goods and services.
By Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! magazine
While some might praise regenerative agriculture as a new advent, the techniques are older than the U.S. itself.
By Claude Jolicoeur, Resilience.org
One long-standing question, which is unresolved within the cider community, is that of a good definition of cider.
By Josefina Skerk, ARC2020
I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.
By Michelle Gamage, The Tyee
Integrating Indigenous food systems like forest gardens into today’s urban setting will take some work. But we can look at models of food sharing and community building in Indigenous societies to help us reimagine what is possible in non-Indigenous urban centres...
By Samuel Young, Medium.com
Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of life.