A theory of change for sustainable agriculture
Looking at the food system in a holistic manner and employing a diverse set of strategies is the best way to ensure lasting and stable change.
sustainable agriculture
Podcast from the Prairie: The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson
In this final episode of the first season of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen reverse roles. Jackson asks the questions about Jensen’s new book, The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability, which summarizes key ideas from Jackson’s work over the past half-century.
The Supply Chain of Fats: Olive Oil
Olive oil may well have been recommended for health reasons – it is a monosaturated fat and, in its cold-pressed extra virgin form, can help lower risk of a heart attack, stroke and heart disease – but what about the supply chain and the economies in the countries it is affecting? A critical look at the supply chain will help to answer these important questions.
Our Food is Not Valued Well
The goal of TEEBAgriFood is more comprehensively to determine the absolute costs, benefits, and dependencies of agriculture and food production. TEEBAgriFood is creating a framework for assessing all the impacts of food, from farm to fork to disposal, including effects on livelihoods, the environment, and human health.
A Future for Farming: Growing Engagement with Sustainability in Agricultural Education
Sustainable agriculture needs to be integrated throughout the entire learning system if all our future farmers are to embrace the sustainability agenda. Young people are a sponge for information and what they are told now will impact on how they farm in the future.
Nature’s Way: A Path to Ecological Agriculture
Allen White and Wes Jackson explore a new agricultural paradigm that mimics rather than contradicts ecological principles.
Conserving Resilient and Multifunctional Sustainable Landscapes
“Conservation means harmony between men and land,” said renowned American environmentalist Aldo Leopold, summarising his view of how nature and humans can co-exist in harmony if the delicate balance of land use and conservation is achieved.
Cuba’s sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw
If relations with U.S. agribusiness companies are not managed carefully, Cuba could revert to an industrial approach that relies on mechanization, transgenic crops and agrochemicals, rolling back the revolutionary gains that its campesinos have achieved.
Plants are not Accountants, and Heaven can Wait: Perennial Grains Revisited
It’s been about a year since I published my article on perennial grain crops in the journal Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems1 so maybe it’s time to revisit this teasing topic
Re-wilding: Joined-up Thinking Needed
More farmers in the countryside are needed for the sake of both rewilding and sustainable agriculture.
Harvests from Hemp Heroes
An earlier blog post..discussed the promises of hemp cultivation to employ US veterans, grow a generation of new farmers, and revitalize a cellulose-based alternative to our current resource-intensive fiber industries.
Lonely Mountain Farm
Kenny Baker’s path to farming was an unlikely one.