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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Canada Science and Technology Museum and Canada Agriculture Museum
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canadian Federation of Agriculture
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  6. 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.
  7. Canadian Organic Growers Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  9. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  10. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  11. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  12. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  13. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
  14. Farmageddon
    The True Cost of Cheap Meat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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 they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
  22. Ontario Farm Animal Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  23. Organic Trade Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  24. 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.
  25. Quotes about Farming and Agriculture
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  26. "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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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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