- Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
- Back to the Land in Romania
A Pig, Milk and Cheap Veg Against EU Agribusiness Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The EU sends Europeanisation agents across Romania to end subsistence farming and encourage agricultural competition. But those who have turned to self-sufficient farming because of austerity resist the world of the CAP.
- Canada Science and Technology Museum and Canada Agriculture Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Organic Growers applauds new organic regulation
News Release September 5, 2006 Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Canadian Organic Growers (COG), Canada's largest national organic organization, applauds the Government of Canada's new organic products regulation.
- Canadian Organic Growers Inc.
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Farmageddon
The True Cost of Cheap Meat Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry.
- Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
- Farming Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
- French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
- GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector. The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has called the recent discovery of contaminated flax seed in Europe â#ounacceptable,â## and said biotechnology companies must take
- Marx as a Food Theorist
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
- Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
- New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things theyre not intended to kill, including birds.
- Ontario Farm Animal Council
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Organic Trade Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
- Quotes about Farming and Agriculture
Resource Type: Unclassified
- "Small really is beautiful", claims new report on England's farming
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A report on the benefits of small-scale farming practices in England, arguing that land size should not be used to exclude farms from receiving subsidies.
- The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
- Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
- Western Uganda: crop-raiding elephants call for plan bee
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Attempts to stop the destruction of farmers' crops around Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park had failed until research into elephant reactions to bees provided an answer.
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