John Higson’s priority is how to involve a maximum number of people involved in decision-making processes in the creation of sustainable local economies. John Higson is a “social entrepreneur, and former branding consultant that got tired of creating added value for products that lack true value. John is convinced that our most wasted natural resource(s) …
Pavlos Georgiadis (33) is an international, interdisciplinary food systems researcher, ethnobotanist and social entrepreneur. In this video, he presents his idea for the creation of an online interactive platform to map the food system of Greece.
“‘Voices of Transition’ is an enthusiastic documentary on farmers- and community-led responses to food insecurity in a scenario of climate change and peak oil. Recorded in Cuba, France and the UK, those ‘voices’ tell us of of a future society where our deserts will once again be living soil, where fields will be introduced into …
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“Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it’s everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it’s no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth’s soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.”
Help our friends at Growstuff in their righteous campaign to build a global, open-source database to help foodgrowers around the world. Please read the campaign text posted below and head on over to their crowdfunding page to help in any way you can.
A priority focus is the development of an online platform to scale-up direct local food sales. We have been inspired by platforms like “local dirt” and OpenFoodSource (developed from Oklahoma Food Coopsoftware) in the USA, Sustaination and Stroudco in the UK and many others.
Better late than ever, but the atmospherics of this video are an interesting reflection on peer production cultures amongst farmers. Watch the video here:
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses her personal journey in systemic thought; how corporate and militarist forces converge to keep the U.S. in a state of perpetual war; and how social movements build deeper interconnectivity to develop a genuine alternative.
“As Simon Fairlie bluntly describes in The Land magazine, “nearly half the country is owned by 40,000 land millionaires, or 0.06% of the population, while most of the rest of us spend half our working lives paying off the debt on a patch of land barely large enough to accommodate a dwelling and a washing line.” *
How much would you pay for food in a cafe which does not have any prices on the menu? And how would you decide what the price should be, if you knew the food you were going to be served was origina...
Since the 1970s, the number of rice varieties in India has plummeted from roughly 100,000 to 7,000. The massive drop is largely due to the rise of high-yield crops born from the Green Revolution, which helped relieve a strained food supply. However, the extinct rice varieties don’t just signify a loss of heritage and cultural identity in Indian villages – each lost variety is a small defeat in the battle to preserve biodiversity and genetic variation.
"A responsible consumption short video message from Ecuador - with English subtitles Great to see initiatives like this from around the globe. The participants pledge at least 50% of there purchases to be local - mainly food - and they are on their way to having 250,000 families take the pledge which injects some 300 million US dollars into the local economy, money that would otherwise be capital flight - the currency in Ecuador is the US dollar."
Everything from Urban Agriculture to Robotics and a huge basement full of Aquaponic growing. A 20K Square ft Laboratory that will change the game for the inner city youth of Lykins Neighborhood.
How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change? A new film documentary, Voices of Transition, provides plenty of answers from Transition-oriented farmers in France, Great Britain and Cuba.
Patents, IPR and marketing restrictions are an important part of the food we eat. The battles fought for a free Internet and free software are the same but also different. The laws on food IPR and marketing in Europe are being updated, and also discussions on TAFTA have begun. Lets figure out how we can work together to keep our food out of the hands of big companies like Monsanto, and instead controlled by farmers, home gardeners and independent plant breeders.
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