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The Farms of the Future

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Community, Environment, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, community, corporate control, economics, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, livelihoods, local food, Planet Local

Agriculture and Autonomy in the Middle East

vegetable garden

Editor’s Note (March 29th, 2018): An earlier version of this article incorrectly described MEM as operating in Rojava. In fact, MEM only operates formally in North (Turkish) Kurdistan, though its goals and principles are also being pursued by groups in […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming, Localization, New economy, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, community, culture, democracy, farming, globalization, livelihoods, local food, localization, new economy, Planet Local, sustainability

An Eco-Farm in Myanmar (Burma): Saving the World with Organic Agriculture

The sun has risen over a misty, damp plain where, not long ago, wild elephants roamed. We have walked home through fallow paddy fields after a hot cup of tea at the little teahouse on the road to the monastery. […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming Tagged With: Planet Local

Indigenous Knowledge and Global Wellness

Modern medicine has enabled people to live longer lives, but what have we lost in turning our backs on traditional ways of healing? Today, heart disease is the number one cause of death around the world. An estimated 17.3 million […]

Filed Under: Health, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: health, Planet Local, sustainability

Building a Village: Lessons in Urban Living from South Korea

“This is a very special house. It’s called the House of Happiness through Communication. People live here like a big family.” Our guide was 12 year-old Seon Jae, and we were standing in front of an unremarkable-looking 3-story brick building […]

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: agriculture, community, culture, development, education, Planet Local, urbanization

From Global to Local in India

“The Future is Fast. We are Faster.” This ubiquitous billboard for a tech company neatly captures the zeitgeist in modern-day Bangalore, and rapidly-urbanizing India generally. Today, Bangalore’s erstwhile appellation as India‘s ‘garden city’ seems sadly anachronistic. To arrive at the […]

Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Economics of Happiness, globalization, Planet Local

Saving Tigers: local knowledge and conservation

Our Planet Local series travels to Nepal, where guest author Narayan Dhakal explains how local knowledge can help save tigers, demonstrating that localization is a key element of successful biodiversity conservation around the world. Before the creation of parks and […]

Filed Under: Localization Tagged With: Planet Local

Towards Alternatives: Radical Ecological Democracy (Part 2)

Local resources, locally managed Localisation, a trend diametrically opposed to globalisation, is based on the belief that those living closest to the resource to be managed (the forest, the sea, the coast, the farm, the urban facility…), would have the […]

Filed Under: Localization Tagged With: Planet Local

Towards Alternatives: Radical Ecological Democracy (Part 1)

The third in our Planet Local series, this article is excerpted from Globalisation in India: Impacts and Alternatives by Ashish Kothari. Kothari will be speaking at the Economics of Happiness conference in Bangalore, India on March 15th. Readers can learn more […]

Filed Under: Localization Tagged With: Planet Local

Planet Local: The Secret of Happiness

The second in our Planet Local-India series, the following article is adapted from a Morning Talk by Sonam Angchuk, founder of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL). It was delivered by Angchuk to students from different parts […]

Filed Under: Economics of Happiness Conferences Tagged With: Planet Local

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