Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up by Steven Brescia, Editor
 Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up, Steven Brescia, Editor (Food First Books, 2017) Agroecology is our best option for creating an agrifood system capable of nurturing people, societies, and the planet. But it is still not widespread.
Fertile Ground, edited by Groundswell International‘s Executive Director Steve Brescia, offers nine case studies authored by agroecologists from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe, that demonstrate how the endogenous practice of agroecology can be “scaled” so that it is known by more farmers, practiced more deeply, and integrated in planning and policy.
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Stand Together or Starve Alone: Unity and Chaos in the U.S. Food Movement
By Mark Winne
“The Food Movement” is a pretty big concept – it can incorporate anything and everything from farming and food production to distribution, marketing, and retail sales. Then toss in farmers markets, food co-ops, and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and it’s a topic that is hard to get your mind around.
In Stand Together or Starve Alone, Mark Winne uses the term “food movement” as an over-arching concept, however he rounds it up into a more straightforward description: “Food Security.” Read on...
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As a member of the Blackfeet Nation, Mariah Gladstone, IndigiKitchen, shares the importance of an Indigenous-based diet.
Gladstone poses the question of whether a nation can truly be soverign if they are unable to provide for themselves. Something we should all ask ourselves as we move farther from being able to do so.
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