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The Promise of Agroecology Is Under Threat Worldwide

The industrial model marginalizes the world's majority food producers—smallholder farmers, food provisioners and workers, Indigenous Peoples, and their innovative solutions, while causing far-reaching and detrimental environmental impacts.
Lauren Baker ·
Agroecology is essential
The horrific wildfires that were ignited across Southeast Asia for land-clearing in 1997-98, combined with a regional drought, killed off many fruit-bearing trees in the forests of Malaysia. Fleeing the dead forests, fruit bats found sustenance in domestic orchards, bringing with them the Nipah virus. (Photo: by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)

Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic

Stan Cox ·

Six Months to Prevent a Hostile Takeover of Food Systems, and 25 Years to Transform Them

Nick Jacobs ·

Villagers bang pots in an effort to clear locusts from crop fields near Miyal village in Banaskantha district some 250km from Ahmedabad on December 27, 2019. A massive locust invasion has destroyed thousands of hectares of crops in northwest India. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Sustainable Agriculture in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Farmers Leading the Battle in Asia

GRAIN ·

When we consider the immensity of the transformation needed, the odds of achieving an ecological civilization might seem daunting—but it’s far from impossible. (Photo by Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images)

Transforming to an Ecological Civilization: The Alternative Is Unthinkable

Jeremy Lent ·

While nutritious diets, healthy populations, pollution remediation, and even climate change mitigation all depend, at least in part, on soil biodiversity, society is not doing enough to preserve this crucial resource, the U.N. warned. (Photo: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil

"If things carry on as they are, the outlook is bleak, unquestionably. But I think it's not too late to introduce measures now."

Kenny Stancil ·

While farmers need to be supported in transitioning to climate-friendly practices, using carbon offsets to compensate for emissions elsewhere does not bring about the necessary changes. (Photo: Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why Agricultural Carbon Offsets Can't Play a Role in International Climate Action

Putting the responsibility of mitigation on farmers lets companies off the hook for reducing emissions along the entire supply chain.

Tara Ritter ·

Climate activists staged a protest outside the European Central Bank headquarters demanding that the ECB stop fueling the climate crisis by supporting fossil fuel companies on October 21, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany.

As Climate Crisis Rages, the World's Public Banks Gathered at First-Ever Summit and Chose to Not Rule Out Continued Fossil Fuels Funding

"There is no excuse for the continued funding of billions of dollars in coal, gas, or oil projects," said one angered campaigner. 

Andrea Germanos ·

In the wake of the pandemic, food security has emerged as a key issue. (Photo: John Benford/Aurora Photos/Getty Images)

World Food Day Drives Home Need for Change in the US

The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the current industrialized food supply system, which is nested in an unequal, racialized and gendered socio-economic system experiencing the increasing prevalence of unemployment and food insecurity.

Shiney Varghese ·

Agroecology has been lauded as an approach that should guide the transformation of food and agriculture systems. (Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images)

Finance for Agroecology: More Than Just a Dream?

A profound transformation of food systems is needed and such a shift must happen rapidly to constructively address the multiple crises that are threatening humanity. 

Nina Isabella Moeller ·

A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer works on his field in Ghent, Belgium on May 21, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

'Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution': New Paper Outlines Vision for Climate Action

"Data from farming and grazing studies show the power of exemplary regenerative systems that, if achieved globally, would drawdown more than 100% of current annual CO2 emissions," the new research says.

Andrea Germanos ·

A sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is seen inside a cage at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program's rehabilitation center on November 10, 2016 in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The orangutans in Indonesia have been known to be on the verge of extinction as a result of deforestation and poaching. (Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

Top Global Experts Say Humanity Must 'Heal Our Broken Relationship With Nature' to Prevent Future Pandemics

"We must curb the high risk trade and consumption of wildlife, halt deforestation and land conversion, as well as manage food production sustainably."

Jessica Corbett ·

Photo taken on June 6, 2020 shows a man wearing a mask with words "I Can't Breathe" during a protest over the death of George Floyd held in Dakar, Senegal. (Photo by Eddy Peters/Xinhua/ via Getty Images)

Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe": An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism

The knee on George Floyd's neck is the same knee that is on our neck. It is the same knee that justified colonialism in Africa.

Million Belay ·

praying mantis

Save the Insects, Save the Farmers, Save Ourselves: New Global Report Calls for End of Industrial Agriculture

"The evidence is clear: pesticide use is wiping out insect populations and ecosystems around the world, and threatening food production."

Andrea Germanos ·

A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer works on his field in Ghent, Belgium on May 21, 2020.

Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis

"E.U. politicians must recognize that a great hope to combat the climate crisis and the collapse of biodiversity lies in agriculture."

Jessica Corbett ·

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