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Government of Venezuela Forces Farmers to Hand Over Food
Government of Venezuela Forces Farmers to Hand Over Food The government of Venezuela is playing Monopoly, but it isn’t the kind with those little plastic hotels. They’re controlling essential goods like food, and putting the retail establishments of the country out of business. According to a UK Telegraph report, the government is now forcing farmers and […]
The Gift of the Maya
The Gift of the Maya “The Maya forest garden holds, in its ramblings and roots, a hidden-in-plain-sight way through our present crises.” It takes a bit of time for the elegance of a food forest to emerge, something on the order of decades. Strolling the garden through the morning mist in a hot Tennessee summer, […]
Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes
Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes As I battle mud and mosquitoes in this wet year, in the wallow that used to be our garden, I think faraway, crazy thoughts. I keep trying to imagine a future time when all human beings would be responsible for their basic food necessities just as they are responsible for […]
Shaun Chamberlin on the Ecological Land Coop.
Shaun Chamberlin on the Ecological Land Coop. Food is an issue that galvanizes so many Transition communities, but many of the classic Transition activities around food, like Landshare and Abundance projects, are to some extent ways of making the best of the ever-shrinking space available for ecological growing. Nothing wrong with that, but it meant […]
Is another way possible?
Is another way possible? A roundup of news, views and ideas from the mainstream press and the blogosphere. Click on the headline link to see the full article. Urban Gardening in Greece – a New Form of Protest Orestes Kolokouris, Green European Journal Guerrilla gardening and local consumer-producer networks are redefining life in today’s Greek cities. […]
No scientific evidence of GM food safety
No scientific evidence of GM food safety It is “premature” to declare GM safe due to “incomplete” scientific knowledge, finds report commissioned by Norwegian Environment Agency A new study commissioned by the Norwegian government, and conducted by a nationally recognised scientific authority on the safety of biotechnologies, concludes that available scientific data on GM crops […]
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy This is the first of a two-part blog looking at scale and production strategy. In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles. In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small […]
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems One of the best ways to address climate change To environmental activist Bill McKibben, it’s all about math. The planet has warmed 1 degree Celsius over the past few decades and is on track to rise another 4 to 5 before the end of the century. […]
Agriculture beyond water
Agriculture beyond water Drought is becoming more prevalent and causing havoc for food producers around the globe. Many regions have been hit by severe water scarcity over the past few years and this trend seems set to continue. New data from NASA shows how the world is running out of water, with more than half of […]
An American Civil War Means Food Riots and Starvation
An American Civil War Means Food Riots and Starvation One of the consequences of an American civil war would be a worldwide food shortage for many years. The disruption of the agricultural sector of the American economy during a nationwide war would virtually eliminate the tons of food exported to other nations from the U.S. A […]
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom A right worth fighting for Sustainable farming activist Joel Salatin and author of Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal returns this week to talk about the importance of a basic human right: to choose what to eat. In past podcasts, he’s described the challenges facing farmers who want to grow organically. […]
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder […]
Hudson Valley Harvest: Transparency is Key to Scaling Local Food
Hudson Valley Harvest: Transparency is Key to Scaling Local Food Hudson Valley Harvest is bringing local food to larger markets through its network of small farmers. The Hudson Valley of New York has a long, rich history of agriculture, and currently boasts more than 5,000 farms that generate upwards of US$500 million in annual revenue. However, despite […]
