Agriculture
Why are people going hungry in India despite a massive grain...
by Prabhat Patnaik
Jan. 12, 2021
Source: Globetrotter
Editor’s Note: Since late November, braving the bitter cold, hundreds of thousands of farmers have set up protest camps...
India Just Had the Biggest Protest in World History
Will it make a difference?
By Nitish Pahwa
Dec 09, 2020
In late November, what may have been the single largest protest in human history took...
“This Is a Revolution, Sir”
Workers in India last week launched a general strike that brought out an estimated 250 million people, arguably the largest in human history. Now,...
Countering Trump’s Assaults on the Natural World: a Word of Advice...
by Evaggelos Vallianatos *
Dec. 7, 2020
Congratulations Mr. President-Elect. I am delighted the American people voted for you in the midst of a Trump and...
Food and Farming Film Festival starting today
The Programme on Cultures of Sustainability, Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University is hosting a series of 4 film shows on food...
From fields to supermarkets, solidarity with laborers on strike
On May 21, migrant agricultural workers across Italy are set to strike in protest over the new immigration rules announced by the government. These...
«Le choc de cette crise va provoquer la révolution»: Entretien avec...
Par Charlotte Vautier
07 mai 2020
En 1964, Che Guevara lui a demandé de « lutter contre les travers du capitalisme ». C’est ce que le...
Feed Sonoma: Agricultural Cooperatives Will Help Save the World
by Jonah Raskin
April 29, 2020
“Building a new world in the shell of the old.” – IWW slogan
Co-operation will save the world, and so will co-operatives like “Feed Sonoma,”...
Revealed: Monsanto predicted crop system would damage US farms
Internal documents describe how to profit from farmer losses and desire to oppose some independent testing
by Carey Gillam
30 Mar 2020
The US agriculture giant Monsanto...
Planetary boundaries
Planetary boundaries is a concept involving Earth system processes which contain environmental boundaries, proposed in 2009 by a group of Earth system and environmental...