SocArXiv Papers | Food and place - agricultural migrant workers’ relationships with food and cooking: a photo-elicitation protocol
‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapes
The steep and stark environmental decline was not supposed to happen under the common agricultural policy
‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers | Global development | The Guardian
Set up to conserve traditional seeds, the Genetic Resources Research Institute is now helping smallholders diversify with crops resilient to the rapid changes in climate
Food security and food sovereignty: Getting past the binary - Jennifer Clapp, 2014
The terms food security and food sovereignty originally emerged as separate terms to describe different things. The former is a concept that describes a conditi...
Food systems#food sovereignty#food security#agroecology#sustainability#food systems#globalization#food justice#social justice#development#policy#farming
The Earth’s changing – so why aren’t we?
A 10-part series exploring the social, economic and political barriers to meaningful global climate action.
The United Kingdom's Domestic Policy for Agriculture after Brexit
The decision in June 2016 by the UK to leave the EU found government departments responsible for domestic agriculture without detailed plans for a post-Brexit national agricultural policy. In Februar...
Agriculture after Brexit on JSTOR
Covid-19 exposes the UK’s broken food system
A proposed agriculture bill fails to fix it
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exposed fundamental weaknesses in UK society. Some fragile systems, such as social care, remained in the spotlight as the pandemic developed, but others attracted only fleeting attention—including the food system.1
Obesity, driven to a considerable extent by a food system that encourages consumption of cheap, energy dense products, quickly emerged as a leading risk factor for covid-19 mortality,2 but this was not the only interaction between food and covid-19. The early stages of the pandemic saw empty supermarket shelves and rationing of basic commodities. Closure of schools and loss of free school meals left many already disadvantaged children facing severe food insecurity.
The UK’s food supply is fragile at the best of times. The country imports 47% of its food, including 84% of its fresh fruit,3 and depends critically on a just-in-time supply chain, with little capacity to withstand shocks.4 The Agriculture Bill 2019-21, the first new legislation on food and farming …
Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains | Nature Food
Nature Food - The social impacts of food supply chains on people, animals and communities need to be integrated into sustainable dietary transformations. Here the social dimension of sustainable...
Food Economics
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the market systems and governmental policies that link natural resources and the environment to food.
FEATURE ARTICLE • Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? | Oceanography
Land is back on the agenda
A special feature on reforming land for sustainable food
Geoff Tansey - Seeds of contention, control or diversity? Global rules, intellectual property and the future control of food - 35 minute video talk
Seeds of Freedom
A landmark film narrated by Jeremy Irons. Find out more at seedsoffreedom.infoThe story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It's be...
Food is Different
Food is different. It is not just any merchandise or commodity. Food means farming, and farming means rural livelihoods, traditions and cultures, and it means preserving, or destroying, rural landscapes. Farming means rural society, agrarian histories; in many cases, rural areas are the repositories of the cultural legacies of nations and peoples.
BBC World Service - A Geochemical History of Life on Earth
Justin Rowlatt tells the story of how our planet was made
Redesigning Food: Behind the scenes
5 episodes
What food-insecure children want you to know about hunger
Marcus Rashford has spoken eloquently about what happens when the government does not provide adequate support for food-insecure families. Children we interviewed said the same thing.
NetLogo 6.4.0 User Manual: System Dynamics Guide
Global Systems Thinking#system dynamics#netlogo#modeling#simulation#agent-based modeling#complex systems#software#education#GEOM143
Jorgen Randers - The Limits to Growth (1972) in a 50-year perspective
This presentation was held during the 50th Anniversary Summit of the Club of Rome on 17-18 October 2018 in Rome. It is part of the Keynote Debate: "50 Years ...
Tipping Point — Podcast
The true story of "The Limits to Growth": the backlash, its legacy.
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website. A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update The signs are everywhere around us: Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since […]
One reason technology and markets are unlikely to prevent overshoot and collapse is that technology and markets are merely tools to serve goals of society as a whole. If society’s implicit goals are to exploit nature, enrich the elites, and ignore the long term, then society will develop technologies and markets that destroy the environment, widen the gap between rich and poor, and optimize for short-term gain. In short, society develops technologies and markets that hasten a collapse instead of preventing it.
The R Word
Why apocalypse resilience isn't about bunkers
Upscaling ecological restoration by integrating with agriculture - Brancalion - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Wiley Online Library
Transformative change is needed to align common small-scale ecological restoration approaches with expectations to restore millions of hectares of degraded lands globally. Currently, most restoration...
Uganda leads in integrating agriculture and biodiversity conservation - CIFOR-ICRAF Forests News
Uganda leads in biodiversity conservation by aligning sustainable farming with forest preservation, setting an example ahead of global talks on biodiv
New Data Shows Where, and How Much, Crops are Produced
An updated model called SPAM produces global maps of crop areas and yields that are pivotal for sustainable supply chains and food security.
Pushed to the brink: The link between food insecurity and mental health
The relationship between food insecurity and mental health is deeply intertwined. People with mental health conditions face a heightened risk of falling into food insecurity, while those experiencing food insecurity are more prone to poor mental health.
Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model)
Background and update on BOIDS, the 1987 model of group motion in
flocks, herds, schools and related phenomena. Includes a Java-based
demonstration and many links to related research and
applications.
Why We Must Bioregionalize Now
And thoughts from New York Climate Week
Smoke and Mirrors: Agroecology, Regenerative Agriculture, and Nature-based Solutions