GoodFood World, March 16th, 2011
When you were 5, what did you want to be when you grew up? A fireman, a ballet dancer, a doctor? Maybe even a farmer? Over the last several generations, somewhere between the ages 5 and 15, farmer fell off the list of careers for most Americans. Read more: A New Generation of Farmers – Young, Educated, Energetic
GoodFood World, March 8th, 2011
Wendell Berry is emerging as a figure who is much-saluted but little-heeded by those in power. Yet his critique is as relevant today as it was when this book was first published in 1977. Read more: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry
Laura Zera, February 11th, 2011
Hombres de maíz. Men of corn. More than just a description, it’s the basis of the Mayan belief system. Popol Vuh, the Mayan’s eight hundred year-old narrative of creation, teaches just that: humankind is created from corn. Read more: Challenges to Agrodiversity in Poptun, Guatemala
GoodFood World, February 8th, 2011
Globalization has fundamentally changed agriculture across Europe. The idyllic image of small farms with sustainable agriculture has been replaced with agricultural cogs producing food-ingredient inputs for international industrial agri-businesses. In every link of the new global food chain, agriculture has become more intensive, larger in scale, and more environmentally and socially unsustainable. Read more: Global Soy Trade: Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts
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