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Yard to table: building a local food economy

Blog Yard to Table by Carly Gayle. Photo by Carly Gayle.

Inside the Washington, DC beltway – a densely populated area of roughly 20 by 20 miles – trees removed due to disease, death, and development contained 200 million board feet of usable lumber in 2008. That’s enough wood to frame […]

Filed Under: Cities, Environment, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: artisan production, community, jobs, livelihoods, localization, sustainability

Listening to the Forest

Blog Listening to the Forest by Suprabha Seshan

To start with a few words about myself, I am a conservationist serving the rainforests of the Western Ghats in India. It has been my lifelong inquiry to look at how a biome can recover from assault – from colonial-neocolonial-capitalistic-civilizational […]

Filed Under: Environment, Indigenous worldview, Nature Tagged With: community, culture, indigenous, livelihoods, nature, South

The Cuban Paradox

Blog The Cuban Paradox by A Growing Culture. Photo by Elcarito on Unsplash.

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 […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Food and Farming, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, globalization, livelihoods, South, Trump

Chak Chok: a campaign against junk food

'Chak Chok- a campaign against junk food' by Kunzang Deachen and Alex Jensen - Local Futures

Transnational corporations have been spectacularly successful in their profit-driven quest to hook the world on junk food. The global sale of packaged foods swelled to US$2.8 trillion by 2020, and is estimated to balloon to $3.4 trillion by 2027. Soda […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming, Health, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, community, consumerism, corporations, farming, global food, health, pollution

What if food were treated as a human right?

Blog What if food were treated as a human right? by A Growing Culture

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 […]

Filed Under: Cities, Food and Farming, Health, Inequality, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, local food, new economy, well-being

Localization and Buen Vivir

Blog Localization and Buen Vivir by Christian Stalberg - Local Futures

Today, there exists what in my estimation is an unprecedented moment for altering the course of human history. The hopes and dreams for a more equitable, peaceful, just and livable world now have an opening for their realization as never […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Free Trade and Globalization, Indigenous worldview, Localization Tagged With: climate change, community, culture, globalization, happiness, health, indigenous, localization, well-being

Food sovereignty on the Navajo Nation

Blog Food sovereignty on the Navajo Nation by Lyric Aquino 2

Graham Biyáál will never forget the taste of his mother’s traditional blue corn mush. An earthy, hearty dish made with ground-up blue cornmeal, water and juniper ash, its recipe has been passed down for generations, from his great-grandmother to his […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Indigenous worldview, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, community, culture, farming, indigenous, local food

The food shortage solution in your backyard

Blog 'The food shortage solution in your backyard' by Ellen Brown. Photo Dacha Garden.

A confluence of crises – lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war – have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the […]

Filed Under: Environment, Food and Farming, Health, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, global food, sustainability, well-being

Pandemic Blues

Blog Pandemic Blues by Suprabha Seshan

The Covid-19 pandemic, lethal as it is, is instrumental to capital’s assault on the living world. Looming through the terrors unleashed by free-flying strands of DNA are gargantuan infrastructural projects, including medical, green and digital. These are intent on destroying […]

Filed Under: Community, Coronavirus, Indigenous worldview, Nature Tagged With: agriculture, capitalism, community, culture, health, indigenous, patriarchy, technology

The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture

Blog The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture

Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of those rare ideas which combine transformative potential with an elegant simplicity. The CSA model of funding and sustaining locally-rooted agriculture has grown exponentially around the globe over the past four decades. Since the first […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Local food, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, local food, new economy, sustainability

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