Author archive: A Growing Culture

A Growing Culture is a non-profit working to unite and grow the food sovereignty movement. They publish Offshoot, a newsletter about the future of food – including what a just food system looks like, whether individual or collective mobilisation is more effective, and how critique and hope are balanced.

Unpacking the Word “Peasant”

Today is the International Day of Peasant Struggle. We dedicate this article to the many agrarian movements we work with and are inspired by, in their fight for food sovereignty around the world. * * * When we refer to […]

The Cuban Paradox

Landing in Cuba is like approaching a vibrant emerald in the middle of the sea. Fields full of shades of green are scattered throughout the island’s territory in orderly plots; various grids of all sizes, some with small groups of […]

Hin Lad Nai: A Successful Model of Indigenous Resistance

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending a couple of days with an Indigenous hillside tribe here in Thailand called Hin Lad Nai, and I wanted to share some of that story with you today. It’s the […]

Taking pensions out of financial markets

Labor unions and social movements in Brazil have been fighting a pitched battle to stop their far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, from pursuing his drive to privatize many of the country’s most important public assets. But last year they suffered a [...]

What if food were treated as a human right?

It can be difficult to imagine a world – or even a city – without hunger. It seems so endemic to the world we live in that it can appear intractable. But there are examples around the world of places […]

Can small-scale farmers feed the world?

One of the things I wondered about a lot during my first months of work in the food system was productivity. Growing up in a Minority World country, practically all of my food came from large-scale, industrial farms. As a […]