- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- Amish Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
- Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
- Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Co-workers in a World Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
- Farm Gate Defence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates, mounting production costs and low prices.
- Farmageddon
Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Kneen explains how corporations control the distribution of food with little knowledge or care of the health risks of engineered food.
- Farmers Confront Industrialism
Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- 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.
- Farmers Reclaim Power
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Farmers from the international peasant's organisation La Via Campesina are joining the #Reclaim Power Action# in Copenhagen. his protest is co-organised by the large coalitions of social movements, NGOs, unions and activists.
- 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.
- Farming Under the Wall
Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
- Fields of Vision
A Journey to Canada's Family Farms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- 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.
- Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
"How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- New Options for America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- No Right-Of-Way
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
The author tells the story of a small group of determined agriculturalists and environmentalists who took on industry, government and the courts for the rights of farmers to protect their land and the environment.
- Our Generation
Volume 8 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Quotes about Farming and Agriculture
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1982
- Sharing the Harvest
A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers ensuring that the farmer survives by being paid in advance at the beginning of the growing season while providing the consumer with the freshest food available.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- "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.
- Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Support for Farmers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
The Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society was founded in June 1976 by a group of individuals concerned about the future of Canada's agricultural self-sufficiency.
- Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
- The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Food security is simply a smokescreen to provide a cover-up for the global efforts being made to dismantle the very foundations of Third World agriculture. Putting more income into the hands of Third World farmers is not acceptable, as it makes developing country agriculture economically viable and therefore deals a blow to U.S. agribusiness trade interests.
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