Are Cooperatives the Answer? World Food Day and the Year of the Cooperative
October 16th is World Food Day 2012, the international holiday established by the Food and Agricultural Administration of the UN. It is a day set aside to celebrate the...
States Supporting Agroecology: UN Special Rapporteur Oliveir de Schutter’s report on the Right to Food
As Mark Hertsgaard’s Op-Ed in the New York Times Thursday, September 13th explained, the US House of Representatives is in legislative gridlock, failing to come to any agreement that...
Sustainable Communities
Traditional societies normally provided for people’s sense of who and what they were, and sustained viable communities, which provided a framework for people’s lives. They answered questions such as...
Sustainable Agriculture
What we mean by sustainable agriculture is agriculture that is not dependent on inputs coming from a long distance, the use of inter-cropping, crop rotations and the mix of...