By Andrew Wight, Ensia
From Guatemala to Oklahoma, communities are tackling multiple challenges by saving seeds of traditional agricultural crops.
By Ruth Terry, YES! magazine
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
By Rob Wallace, New Internationalist
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy
By Rebecca Ellis, Uneven Earth
Permaculture has transformative potential when practitioners move away from promoting it as a depoliticized set of ecological design practices and principles.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
But the choice of swidden that interests me most for my present purposes is when it’s adopted as a way to avoid being caught in a political net of constant productivity gain and, ultimately, state centralization and ‘modernization’.
By Leah Penniman, YES! magazine
Many of us have forgotten that our cultural heritage as Black people includes ecological humility, the idea that humans are kin to, not masters of, nature.
By Winona LaDuke, YES! magazine
With 10,000 uses, hemp is one of the most versatile plants to grow—and in many ways can be a catalyst for change for Native peoples.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
In my talk, I encouraged the participants to think inside the box of Norrbotten for food production. What can actually be produced in a good way on their lands?
By Manu Moudgil, Waging Nonviolence
Hundreds of thousands of farmers have been rallying against three new laws that have thrown open the agriculture sector to private players.
By Libby Leonard, YES! magazine
Hawai‘i is “showing the rest of the country how circular and regenerative and local food systems can support the economy, strengthen cultural heritage, and improve the overall health of the community,”
By Sjoerd Wartena, ARC2020
In these 500 hectares of mainly wild nature, I now constantly look for signs of the ancestors of the indigenous population. I have always been fascinated by the life of the previous generation that was born and bred here, who shaped our way of practicing agriculture and animal husbandry.
By Chris Smaje, A Small Farm Future
With a no deal Brexit looming and the Government’s farm subsidy regimen shifting towards payments only for delivering ‘public goods’, it looks like hard times may lie ahead for many commercial farmers in the UK, none more so than for upland livestock farmers.