What About Food For People? – the US Farm Bill and the Rural Economy
Conservative Republicans in the US House of Representatives remain unconcerned with the needs of the American people as they argue to split the Farm Bill in two. They are...
The Green Revolution Changed the Way the World Thinks about Agriculture, to Rely Exclusively on Chemical Inputs
When the Green Revolution spread from the to the Third World in the 1960s and 70s, it also spread a paradigm for thinking about agriculture. This paradigm excluded...
Why Grow More Food: Simplicity in the Kitchen and in the Fields
Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. Delicious meals can be made with very few good quality ingredients, and often the best meals are. Looking through the recipe cards left...
The Legacy of Hugo Chávez and Issues of Food Sovereignty
The response of the US mainstream media to the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was overwhelmingly bitter last magazine called him a “demagogue” who displayed “reckless and...
Why Grow More Food?
Are we growing food for human consumption? Do we grow it to rot in warehouses? Do we grow it to bring huge profits for investors? Do we grow it...
Land Grabbing, Personal Investment, and What We All Can Do: Part 2
In our recent posts, we have been trying to make visible the connection between personal investment and land-grabbing in places like Mozambique, Brazil, Uganda, Ethiopia and others. Those who...
A farmer’s story
It’s often hard to visualize what a land grab looks like, especially when few of us have traveled to the places where they are taking place. This year, La...