Peak pork and the recoupling of people and livestock to the land
In the longer term, agriculture and food systems must be organized in a similar way as natural ecosystems where most, but not all, nutrients are circulating within the ecosystem.
Food & Water
How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
A platform of California Climate and Agriculture Network would move billions of dollars into the hands of farmers and ranchers willing to adopt regenerative food and farming systems.
Chocolate and Sovereignty: A journey into Terra Vista
Documentary “Terra Vista” depicts the journey of a settlement of Brazil’s Landless Peasants Movement (MST) to recover a degraded territory and establish autonomous and agroecological cacao production.
As A New Farm Bill Nears, Congress Should Consider Agrivoltaics
Agrivoltaics is an emerging dual-use approach where land both generates power from solar panels and maintains agricultural production.
‘A Shared Human Endeavour’: a new model for farmer participation and knowledge co-production in agroecological research
While a positivist science is often privileged in research, agroecology implies the mobilisation of different kinds of knowledges that reflect the multiple dimensions of agroecology as a science, practice and social movement.
Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up
Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all.
Mind The Gap! Sustainable Food Systems Need Intergenerational Cooperation
At the European Action Gathering for Sustainable Food Systems in Marburg, Germany, Forum Synergies invited participants to consider aspects of intergenerational cooperation.
Winter solstice 2023
There is a wisdom to this time of the year. Perhaps by just sitting with the dark, the seeds of whatever I must do next will arrive on their own.
Marburg Gathering | Building Bridges for Future-Proof Food Systems
A family of action-takers: farmers and food systems workers, elected officials, administrations, researchers and educators, and members of civil society organisations – some friends, many strangers – who came together to call for an integrated policy shift for sustainable farming practices and a resilient food system.
Imagining the future of food in a net zero world
Earlier this year I worked with the UK Agri-foods for Net Zero Network (AFN for short) to help them develop a set of scenarios about the future of food production and consumption. The purpose of the scenarios was to stretch their thinking around the types of research that could help to accelerate the transition of the sector to Net Zero.
Field, Fork, Fashion: Excerpt
Informed by the knowledge that leather originated in food systems, I aimed to explore how that connection could influence my work as a designer. I decided that in order to find answers to my questions, I’d need to follow it as a product from the field and confront its transformation into food and fibre.
Climate-friendly food systems start with different values, not technologies
If we start instead by attending to aspirational values — such as equity, empowerment, and respect and reciprocity with the natural world — we will better see the long-term transformative potential of solutions we already have in hand to build food systems that are more sustainable, regenerative and just.