African Perspectives on Agroecology is a new book with 33 contributions from academics, non-governmental organisations, farmer organisations and policy makers. It is free to download, and reviewers ...
The smaller, diversified farming systems many of us imagine when we hear the word “farm” have morphed into industrialized operations that concentrate hundreds to thousands of animals in one confined ...
his condemnation of pesticides and opposition to food additives makes it clear that he believes our industrial agricultural system needs serious reform. Towards that aim, if RFK Jr. wants to make ...
What we found is a territory that — despite 80% of inhabitants working as farmers — struggles to feed itself, and worrying signs that government support for industrial agriculture may create ...
Farmers are motivated to “get big or get out,” as President Nixon’s secretary of agriculture, Earl Butz, said in 1973, urging farmers to buy up their neighbors’ lands, and replace laborers ...
Take, for instance, Trump’s pick to serve as Agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins. The section dedicated to agriculture on the web page of the America First Policy Institute, where Rollins ...