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The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025
The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Thermodynamic drag It’s Already Started: The Oil Crisis They Said Would Never Happen As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn – Inside Climate News From Fear to […]
The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit
The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit Food Summit image via the International Science Council The UN’s Food Systems Summit was held last week in New York. This sounds like it ought to be a good thing, given the sense of impending crisis around the food sector. But a lot of people aren’t happy about […]
How Canada’s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty
How Canada’s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty A new Métis Cultural Centre in Fort McMurray aims to revive traditional practices in an urban setting. Genevieve Noel was in the room when Fort McMurray city councillors voted unanimously last month to provide almost eight acres for a Métis Cultural Centre. Noel, a Métis woman and designer, […]
These Extraordinary Times: Indigenous Peoples and coalition building for agroecology and food sovereignty
These Extraordinary Times: Indigenous Peoples and coalition building for agroecology and food sovereignty Above: Members of a Euro-American motorcycle club work alongside citizens of the Athabascan Nation to launch a fish wheel in the Copper River, Alaska. This post is based on what Indigenous Peoples (IPs) have shared with me and urged me to build […]
Africa’s Sovereignty Over Food
Africa’s Sovereignty Over Food Local food and seed systems must be rebuilt for Africans. Africa is facing dire times. Climate change is having major impacts on the region and on agriculture in particular, with smallholder farmers —many of them women — facing drought, general lack of water, shifting seasons, and floods in some areas. Smallholder […]
Joel Salatin: The Rise Of Rogue Food
Joel Salatin: The Rise Of Rogue Food A ‘food freedom’ revolt against the government is starting This week, we welcome back Joel Salatin to the podcast. Labeled by The Washington Post as “the most famous farmer in America”, Joel has spent his career advocating for sustainable farming practices and pioneering models that show how food […]
Beet the System! A Dialogue on Food Sovereignty, Inclusivity and Healing the Rural/Urban Divide.
BEET THE SYSTEM! A DIALOGUE ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, INCLUSIVITY AND HEALING THE RURAL/URBAN DIVIDE. Can food and food sovereignty be the catalyst for a Commons Transition? For over 30 years, FIAN International has been advocating for the right to food sovereignty. Their work unites bottom-up grassroots movements and local administrations, with a special focus on inclusivity […]
From grower to grocer: Building community food systems
From grower to grocer: Building community food systems Across the UK the food sovereignty movement is growing. A budding plethora of networks are challenging the current corporate control of the food system and sowing the seeds of structured community food chains and holistic food economies. What roles do these small food chains and alternative distribution networks play […]
Andrianna Natsoulas on Food Sovereignty and the Commons
Andrianna Natsoulas on Food Sovereignty and the Commons As part of our series on the 100 Women Who Are Co-Creating the P2P Society, the P2P Foundation’s Michel Bauwens interviews Andrianna Natsoulas from FoodSources.org Q: You are mostly known for your work around food sovereignty, can you tell us a bit of personal history and how you decided to get engaged on that […]
Food Sovereignty
Food Sovereignty ‘Food sovereignty’ is fast becoming a lost concept; the right to have the knowledge and resources to grow our own food is an essential right. If we don’t have access to nutrient dense organic food, then where do we get the essential energy to heal our body, mind and spirit certainly not from […]
Food democracy South and North: from food sovereignty to transition initiatives
Food democracy South and North: from food sovereignty to transition initiatives When the idea of food sovereignty emerged twenty years ago, from the mobilisation of campesinos in Costa Rica and from the protest marches of small farmers in the Indian state of Karnataka, it had one important lesson to teach us: policies in the areas of food […]
GRAIN — Right to land and seed
GRAIN — Right to land and seed. “Food sovereignty” is the main political demand of the landless and peasant movement in Bangladesh in times of climate change and intensifying land conflicts. The concept of food sovereignty is based on the right to grow their own food, with own seeds and in an ecologically sustainable way […]
