Eating Like the Ancestors
Cassadore’s efforts are part of a much larger Tribal Food Sovereignty movement among the numerous Tribal Nations in the United States. And she and her people are healthier for it.
Food & Water
Let’s Talk About Food! The UK Project Starting National Conversations
“Has anybody ever asked you what you really think about food?” So began a new initiative, the National Conversation About Food, that seeks to find out how people on the ground would like to see food systems improved.
Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
How one North Dakota farmer saved his farm and livelihood using carbon-friendly farming methods.
Peak pork and the recoupling of people and livestock to the land
In the longer term, agriculture and food systems must be organized in a similar way as natural ecosystems where most, but not all, nutrients are circulating within the ecosystem.
How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
A platform of California Climate and Agriculture Network would move billions of dollars into the hands of farmers and ranchers willing to adopt regenerative food and farming systems.
Chocolate and Sovereignty: A journey into Terra Vista
Documentary “Terra Vista” depicts the journey of a settlement of Brazil’s Landless Peasants Movement (MST) to recover a degraded territory and establish autonomous and agroecological cacao production.
As A New Farm Bill Nears, Congress Should Consider Agrivoltaics
Agrivoltaics is an emerging dual-use approach where land both generates power from solar panels and maintains agricultural production.
‘A Shared Human Endeavour’: a new model for farmer participation and knowledge co-production in agroecological research
While a positivist science is often privileged in research, agroecology implies the mobilisation of different kinds of knowledges that reflect the multiple dimensions of agroecology as a science, practice and social movement.
Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up
Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all.
Mind The Gap! Sustainable Food Systems Need Intergenerational Cooperation
At the European Action Gathering for Sustainable Food Systems in Marburg, Germany, Forum Synergies invited participants to consider aspects of intergenerational cooperation.
Winter solstice 2023
There is a wisdom to this time of the year. Perhaps by just sitting with the dark, the seeds of whatever I must do next will arrive on their own.
Marburg Gathering | Building Bridges for Future-Proof Food Systems
A family of action-takers: farmers and food systems workers, elected officials, administrations, researchers and educators, and members of civil society organisations – some friends, many strangers – who came together to call for an integrated policy shift for sustainable farming practices and a resilient food system.