Local Food, Farming & Fisheries
Africa Organics: The Home Farm Project
Gambia
The Home Farm Project helps young people who want to stay in (or return to) their villages establish permanent, diverse, sustainable farms, and works to lend prestige to Gambia’s traditional knowledge and skills.
http://www.africaorganics.org/index.php
Agrarian Trust
USA
Across the United States – where one acre of farmland is lost to development every minute – young farmers are having an increasingly hard time finding affordable land. Agrarian Trust works to come up with various unique ‘commons-based’ approaches to land ownership to strengthen local and regional food and farm economies. In doing so, they’re able to permanently protect farmland for sustainable agriculture and preserve its affordability for new and disadvantaged farmers in communities across the country. Learn more at www.agrariantrust.org.
ALPA – Land for Life
Romania
In the face of biodiversity loss and concentration of land ownership in Romania, ALPA fosters hope by advocating for commons-based land stewardship models and cooperating with local farmers to implement agroecological practices that are both regenerative, biodiversity-enhancing and offer a decent livelihood.
Babahan Subak Association
Indonesia
The Babahan Subak Association in the Tabanan province of Bali is a water-sharing farmer cooperative that upholds traditional organic farming methods and maintains an educational gathering space to share the practice, history, and spiritual and cultural significance of rice farming with locals and visitors. Learn more on the Uma Wali Facebook page (in Indonesian), and by contacting Emas Hitam Indonesia (English and Indonesian).
https://www.facebook.com/umawali.bali
Backyard Honeybees
New Zealand
This small business based in Christchurch, New Zealand, allows the city’s residents to host their own beehives – and produce their own honey – by offering fully managed bee hives for rent to the home gardener. Learn more at http://www.beezthingz.co.nz.