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Farmer in Cameroon

Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels

By Jeremy Jiménez, Resilience.org

It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.

mountain shepherding

Letter From The Farm | Bridging Worlds Old and New

By Claire Jeannerat, ARC2020

For both Claire and her husband, shepherding in the mountains is a lifestyle choice rather than a career. They endeavour to live this vocation in a manner that respects and upholds ancient traditions that are being lost in modern society, bridging a path between the old and new.

The Dirt on Soil 1

Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate – Excerpt

By Laura Lengnick, New Society Publishers

This excerpt from the second edition explores some of the lessons learned in the contemporary sustainable food movement, a movement that - although incomplete and imperfect - has devoted considerable effort to understanding what it means to feed ourselves without harm to land, people and community.

hill farming

Equality in a Zero Carbon Countryside

By The Land Staff, The Land Magazine

Demand for renewables and carbon storage could bring wealth to rural Britain — but who will benefit? Time for an update to our Rural Manifesto.

hemp growing in Brittany

Hemp – Overgrowing the Regime part 1

By Ursula Billington, ARC2020

Hemp is an ‘ecological wonder plant’ with almost endless potential as a sustainable raw fibre material, not to mention its intriguing nutrient profile and therapeutic benefits.

mesquite

Planting Agroecology in the Sacred Desert of Wirikuta

By Diana Negrin, Esperanza Project

All had come to Las Margaritas to attend a free intensive agroecology workshop led by Gerardo Ruiz Smith, a Mexican regenerative agriculture expert, and coordinated by the Wixarika Research Center as the first stone of a long-term project that seeks to restore and regenerate the desert in what many have come to call the “botanical garden” of Wirikuta.

Bundjalung land

Indigenous and feminine wisdom: an interview with Ella Noah Bancroft

By Ella Noah Bancroft, Henry Coleman, Local Futures

Going local is remembering the old ways, the ways in which all our ancestors used to live. Going local is about reconnecting to place, people and self. It is the ultimate reconnection our planet is calling for. A slower pace and more gentle way of being on this planet.

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