- Accounts of Wrath
The Family Farm Under Siege
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
- Agrarian Socialism
The Cooperative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
A study of the social background of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, which in 1944 became to first government with avowed socialist goals to be elected to office in Canada. The updated 1968 edition contains a new introduction and additional essays by five other scholars.
- Agricultural Land Use Change in Canada: Process and Consequences
Land Use in Canada Series: Number 21
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Three of the six chapters focus on the Saugeen River Valley.
- Agriculture & Farming Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to agriculture and farming in the Sources directory for the media.
- Agroecology Case Studies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.
- 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.
- America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In rural America fewer than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results of this emerging feudal economy are everywhere. Large areas of the United States are becoming impoverished farm towns with abandoned farmhouses and deserted land. More and more of the countryside has been devoted to massive factory farms and plantations.
- An Analysis of the Decreasing Viability of Small and Medium sized Farms in Canada.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Describes the economic, physical, and political conditions that cause a rapid decrease in small and medium sized farms in Canada.
- The Apartment Farmer
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- 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.
- Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
- 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 Farm and Home Almanac
Resource Type: Book
- 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 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Climate Change and World Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Collective farming
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
- Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
Visions of urban life.
- 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 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
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
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- 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 Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- 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.
- Costa Rican Farmers Become Climate Change Acrobats
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
José Alberto Chacón traverses the winding path across his small farm on the slopes of the Irazú volcano, in Costa Rica, which meanders because he has designed it to prevent rain from washing away nutrients from the soil.
- Co-workers in a World Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
- Edible Action
Food Activism and Alternative Economics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Ethiopia's seed banks - under threat from G8 plan to 'develop' Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's all at risk from a G8 plan to open Africa to corporate agriculture.
- 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.
- Farmer Cooperatives, Not Monsanto, Supply El Salvador With Seeds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the face of overwhelming competition skewed by the rules of free trade, farmers in El Salvador have managed to beat the agricultural giants like Monsanto and Dupont to supply local corn seed to thousands of family farmers. Local seed has consistently outperformed the transnational product, and farmers helped develop El Salvador’s own domestic seed supply–all while outsmarting the heavy hand of free trade.
- Farmers Confront Industrialism
Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
- Farmers resist foreclosures
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- Farming and Food
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- 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
- Food Among the Ruins
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
- Food Chains
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm labourers in the United States.
- Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
- 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.
- From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The "liberalization" and 'corporatization' of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India's 1 billion people.
- The future is agroecology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
- 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
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has a farm of just two hectares in Darveshpura village in the state of Bihar in Northern India. His record yield of 22.4 tons per hectare, from a one-acre plot, was achieved with what is known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
- 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.
- Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
- India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
- Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
- The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
- 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.
- Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
- Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land breaks the community, displaces access to food and water, and uproots the connection to nature and [local] knowledge. There is an old saying in Africa: the land doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to our children, and the children of our children.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- New Options for America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Organic Trade Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2020
Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe
Resource Type: Book
It looks at the changing landscape of Europe and the way man has responded and adapted over the millennia.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Plant This Movie
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
A documentary which encourages people to use green spaces to grow vegetables instead of grass. The film explores urban gardening in cities including Havana, Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, Lima, New York, New Orleans, and London.
- The Right-to-Farm Scam
Third Wave Corporatocracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
- Second Nature
The Animal-Rights Controversy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Animal-rights advocates argue that humans have no right to kill any animal, whether by hunting or farming or for medical research. Is this a cure for our ecological ills or is it a symptom of the disease? What is irrefutably logical
- 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.
- Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
- Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Spider & The Fly, Agribusiness and the Farmer, The Way it Really is
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
This account of potato farming issues in New Brunswick was prepared by the National Farmers' Union for the Farmers' Enquiry in New Brunswick.
- Submission by the National Farmers Union to the Comprehensive Development Plan for Prince Edward Island
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
The National Farmers Union (NFU) evaluates, criticizes and makes recommendations on the Comprehensive Development Plan for P.E.I. in this submission.
- 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.
- Toward the Agro-Police State
You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
- Via Campesina Declaration of the Forum on Food Sovereignty, Territories of Peace for a Dignified Life 2017
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The participants of the Forum on Food Sovereignty held in the city of Buenos Aires on December 12th and 13th [2017] want to express our agreements regarding the construction of territories of peace for the people: the peasants of the world and every community struggling to remain in our ancestral territories and to continue feeding humanity, as we have done for the last ten thousand years, while at the same time fighting for a worthy life in the cities with healthy, locally produced food.
- Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
The Right to Produce and Access Land
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
Food is a basic human right. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
- Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
- 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.
- What are we eating?
Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
- When the Work's All Done This Fall
The Settling of the Land: Vocies of Early Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
This working paper was prepared for presentation at a workshop entitled "The Human Context for Science and Technology" which was held at Saint Mary's University, Halifax in May, 1980.
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