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Industrial Agriculture is No Solution for Africa

Industrial agriculture is no solution for Africa - blog Local Futures

The theme for this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) to be held in Nairobi from September 6-10 is ‘Pathways to Recovery and Resilient Food Systems’.  Yet 15 years after its convener, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Food and Farming, Inequality, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporate control, corporations, development, farming, industrial agriculture, local food, South, technology

Why is the Food Systems Summit silent on corporate land grabs?

Peasant movements in Asia marked March 29 as the Day of the Landless. The day pays tribute to the founding of the Asia Peasant Coalition (APC). About 15-million strong, the APC was established in 2003 by more than 20 organizations […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Development, Food and Farming, Inequality, Livelihoods and jobs, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, corporate control, corporations, development, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, livelihoods, South

Young farmers in Ladakh: the future of our food

Ladakh – high on the Tibetan Plateau at the northern extreme of India – is the place we call home. The vast majority of Ladakhis are villagers, who have, for centuries, provided for most of their physical and emotional needs [...]

Filed Under: Community, Coronavirus, Food and Farming, Livelihoods and jobs, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, culture, development, farming, global food, indigenous, livelihoods, local food, sustainability

What did we lose when we lost the stars?

Reading Dante’s Divine Comedy poses any number of challenges to modern readers. This should not, I’ll quickly add, deter modern readers from the attempt, which, in my view anyway, will more than repay the effort. In any case, one of these challenges […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: development, happiness, health, indigenous, nature, pollution, technology, urbanization

Cities and Green Orthodoxy

As the world has urbanized rapidly since 1950, per capita carbon footprint has declined, and so has carbon intensity in economic output, defined as the amount of energy used to produce a unit of economic growth.  But gross material throughputs and […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, corporations, development, economic growth, globalization, sustainability, urbanization

Progress and the modernization of Ladakh

One morning during breakfast, my family started talking about new policies of the government towards “Progress” to ensure road connectivity and freshwater pipelines to every house, which have been categorized as basic necessities. I agree that these facilities make life […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Community, Development, Happiness Tagged With: climate change, community, development, happiness

Lockdown in Ladakh

I returned to my village in Ladakh when the Prime Minister announced the first lockdown in late-March. I ended up spending the whole lockdown period in the village assisting my family with various agricultural and pastoral tasks. This was the […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Development, Food and Farming, Health, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: agriculture, culture, development, farming, health, livelihoods, well-being

What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics

This blog is also available in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish. The crises of the modern world verify what indigenous cultures have always known: that all phenomena are inextricably interconnected. As the Amazon – one of the […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Coronavirus, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, corporations, development, economics, globalization, indigenous, localization, trade agreements

The Key to the Environmental Crisis is Beneath Our Feet

The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable. In a Washington Post article titled “The Green New Deal Sets […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, development, farming, global food, happiness, industrial agriculture, local food, sustainability

Is 5G Worth the Risks?

In recent months there’s been a lot of talk about 5G – the next generation of wireless technology. 5G is being touted as a necessary step to the ‘internet of things’ – a world in which our refrigerators alert us […]

Filed Under: Development, Health, Technology Tagged With: corporations, development, health, technology

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