Americas Social Forum Calls for Agriculture Based on Solidarity
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCION, Aug 13, 2010 (IPS) - Small-scale agriculture based on the principles of solidarity and cooperation is the only way to guarantee food sovereignty in Latin America, said peasant and indigenous activists meeting in the Paraguayan capital this week.
Can Organic Farming "Feed the World"?
By Christos Vasilikiotis, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
The legacy of Industrial Agriculture
Organic farming can feed the world
Catherine Badgley, University of Michigan Assistant professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology speaks about the potential of organics.
Food Sovereignty Tours To Bolivia, Mali/Senegal, and the Spanish and French regions of the Basque Country
These tours, offered jointly by Food First and Global Exchange, give you a front row seat into how farmers in diverse cultures are building local food sovereignty.
Pasadena family makes its mark on America’s modern agrarian movement, produces over 5,000 pounds of food on a fifth of an acre of land
By Dwight Hobbs
A family in Pasadena, California is maintaining its vision for urban farming in America.
Statement from the People’s Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty, US Social Forum, Detroit, 2010
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Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt—in defiance of the British Empire’s monopoly on this resource critical to people’s diet. The action catalyzed the fragmented movement for Indian independence and was the beginning of the end for Britain’s rule over India. The act of “making salt” has since been repeated many times in many forms by people’s movements seeking liberation, justice and sovereignty: Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and the Zapatistas are just a few of the most prominent examples.
Going for a raw (milk) nation
By Cait Van Damm
I’ll admit, I miss breaking the law. Not so long ago at a farm in New York’s Hudson Valley that will go unnamed, I used to fill up half-gallon mason jars of raw milk for a whopping $1.50. The milk was incredible; hours from the source, it was smooth, ultra-creamy, and everything a dairy connoisseur hopes and dreams about. Ah, memories.
Right to Food: “Agroecology outperforms large-scale industrial farming for global food security,” says UN expert
BRUSSELS (22 June 2010) – “Governments and international agencies urgently need to boost ecological farming techniques to increase food production and save the climate,” said UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, while presenting the findings at an international meeting on agroecology held in Brussels on 21 and 22 June.
Along with 25 of the world’s most renowned experts on agroecology, the UN expert urged the international community to re-think current agricultural policies and build on the potential of agroecology.