Towards Food Sovereignty
At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems.
Food & Water
The Power of Diversity & Community-Managed Natural Farming – The Future of Agriculture Comes From India
Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) movement.
Finding Our Way Home Part III: Finding Community
For me, the mountain on which I live, the animals and plants, the climate, the river and underground spring… actually the land and all it encompasses… this is also my community.
Jack Kloppenburg on Sharing Seeds in a World of Proprietary Agriculture
The Open Source Seed Initiative, founded in 2012, has been a key vehicle and voice in reclaiming the right to share seeds and strengthening all the benefits that flow from seed-sharing: healthier soils, empowered farmers and communities, biodiversity, more robust seed innovation.
Root and branch
My primary influences for navigating out of the present mess these days are distributism, civic republicanism, agrarian populism and Thomism, or maybe immanentism … which not a lot of people have heard of. One reason not a lot of people have heard of them is that we’re so caught up in mainstream modernist politics like neoliberalism and socialism that they get no airtime, which I think is regrettable.
Tiny Terrors: Microplastics’ Threat to Our Health and Environment
Plastic is everywhere, and its presence in our lives has grown in the last few decades, as the oil and gas industry ramped up its production to unprecedented levels. The resulting plastic pollution crisis has now entered a new phase in the form of microplastics.
One way to stop a prison? Return the land to Indigenous stewards
With the acquisition of 68 acres of private land, the ARP aims to heal the land and the local community—in part by stopping the prison from ever getting built.
Letter From The Farm | Growing Food, Family, And Community
Growing food for people while growing a little human in parallel – in my context of no family support – hasn’t been attainable so far. But it’s a luminous objective.
The consumer power myth
Therefore, a central task is to de-commodify food through multiple means, such as self-provisioning, co-producing, gifting and sharing or even just by having a stable relationship between producers and consumers.
Study Reveals Up to 11 Million Tons of Plastic Polluting Ocean Floors
The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth’s ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week.
Sindh farmers fear outcomes of irrigation projects in Pakistan
In Pakistan, thousands of protesters have fought against the Cholistan Canal Project, which would divert water from the Indus River to irrigate millions of hectares of desert for corporate farming.
Malin Pinsky — The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life
In this conversation, Nate is joined by marine ecologist Malin Pinsky, whose decades of research shed light on the dramatic migrations of marine species due to rising ocean temperatures.