Eating Our Way to Collapse
Author: Has Herren | Published: February 13, 2017 Despite the fact that we presently produce double the amount of food needed for a population of seven billion, there are still calls from the United...
View ArticleWhat We Need Are Farms That Support Farmers, Consumers and the Environment
Authors: Andrea Basche, Marcia DeLonge | Published: March 15, 2017 The past several years have been rough for many U.S. farmers and ranchers. Net farm incomes this year could fall to 50 percent of...
View ArticleOur Current Food System Is Broken and Unjust—we Need a Paradigm Shift That...
Author: Dr. Robert Biel | March 22, 2017 There is a sense that the world food system has reached an impasse. Hunger afflicts at least an eighth of the world population, mostly in the global South, but...
View ArticleFeeding the World Without Destroying It
Author: Eric Holt-Gimenez | May 8th, 2017 The seas are rising, droughts are spreading, and storms are becoming more violent. Many people in the world are already feeling the disastrous effects of...
View ArticleNew Book Examines Agroecology As the Future of Farming
Author: Lisa Kaschmitter | Published: May 2017 The Institute for Food and Development Policy, a nonprofit known as Food First, released a new book entitled Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from...
View ArticleAgroecology Getting to the Root Causes of Climate Change
Published: July 21, 2017 Food has not been the focus of climate change discussions as much as it should have been. (…) We can still act and it won’t be too late” Barack Obama, 26 May 2017.[1] Of...
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Agroecological Approaches to Enhance Resilience Among Small Farmers
Authors: Clara Inés Nicholls and Miguel Altieri | Published: June 26, 2017 Many studies reveal that small farmers who follow agroecological practices cope with, and even prepare for, climate change....
View ArticleFood and Farming: Two Futures
Author: Vandana Shiva | Published: July 12, 2017 The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make “bread from air”. There are two distinct futures of food and...
View ArticleTeaching Agroecology in the Himalayan Foothills
Published: July, 2017 Neha Raj seeks sleep on the night train from Delhi to Dehradun. It’s not the soundest slumber, but she’s grown accustomed to the sway of the rails. Neha teaches at Navdanya’s...
View ArticleCan Big Money Fix a Broken Food System?
Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects. Author: Lisa Held | Published: Civil Eats Massive venture capital...
View ArticleAgroecology to the Rescue: 7 Ways Ecologists are Working Toward Healthier...
Author: Marcia DeLonge | Published: August 2, 2017 A lot has been written about agroecology, and a new special issue of the journal Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems takes it to the next level....
View ArticleWhat’s the Future of Farming? It Can Only Be Agroecology, Says Farms of the...
Author: Niamh Michail | Published: August 1, 2017 Think of agriculture of the future and you may conjure up images of hydroponic lettuces grown in underground, urban bunkers or massive-scale precision...
View ArticleThis Revolution Will Be Farmed
With roots in the Occupy Movement, the Experimental Farm Network seeks participatory plant breeding on a massive scale. Author: Lela Nargi | Published: March 7, 2018 A long-bearded, bespectacled...
View ArticleInternational Study Indicates Ways to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change...
International study indicates ways to mitigate the effects of climate change on agriculture Author: Cristina Pinto, University of Coimbra | Published: March 14, 2018 Extreme weather events are going...
View ArticleEconomic Impact of Organic Agriculture Hotspots in the United States
Authors: I. Julia Marasteanu, and Edward C. Jaenicke | Published: February 2018 In this paper, we assess whether or not organic agriculture has a positive impact on local economies. We first identify...
View ArticleClimate Resilience – A Course for Farmers
While farmers already know just how much we are connected (and vulnerable) to the variability inherent in working with nature, farming connects to Climate Change in profound ways. On the one hand,...
View ArticlePlant Diversity Enhances Productivity and Soil Carbon Storage
Author: Shiping Chen, et. al. | Published: April 16, 2018 Significance Soil carbon sequestration plays an important role in mitigating anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Recent...
View ArticleNative Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People
From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about...
View ArticleIndustrial Agriculture Isn’t Feeding the World, Only Agroecology Can
A transition towards agroecology is needed to beat the diktats of a production model that is poisoning our Planet and our lives. The op-ed by Navdanya International. Author: Ruchi Shroff | Published:...
View ArticleA Well-Balanced Agro-Ecological System Is Needed
Author: Bryan Simon, Land Stewardship Project | Published: May 22, 2018 It’s not the cow or the sow, but the how. I hate to break it to all the conscientious consumers who have bought into the idea...
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