- Abandon Affluence
Resource Type: Book This work reviews the most recent evidence on major global problems, examining resource and energy scarcity, environmental destruction, Third World underdevelopment, international conflict, and the deteriorating quality of life. The author argues these problems are ultimately generated by the West's commitment to affluence and growth inherent in its economic system. Only fundamental social change, not technical solutions, can provide the solution.
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canned Dreams
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 A simple can of ravioli propels this spectacular 30,000-kilometre, eight-country journey through all phases of food production and the far flung sources of international ingredients.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- 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 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Connexions Library: Food Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
- Fair Shares of Food
Agriculture in an Age of Gadgets Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Concern over lagging production has prompted a search for technological tricks that might revolutionize food production.
- Food 2000
Global Policies for Sustainable Agriculture Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 World food production is characterized by unsaleable surpluses in Europe and North America, alongside mass hunger in the Third World. This report to the WCED argues this pattern is ecologically destructive and morally unacceptable and that the loss of cropland, forests and fertility is not inevitable. It proposes solutions to meet the growing demand for food, and to improve the environment in areas lost to agricultural production.
- Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
- From Land to Mouth, Understanding the Food System (Review essay)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1990
- The Harrowsmith Reader
An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardening, husbandry, food, trees, and rural life.
- Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
- Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- 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.
- Nutrition Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Resource Type: Website
- Ontario Farm Animal Council
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- 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.
- Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2005 Our Daily Bread (original German title: Unser taglich Brot) is a 2005 documentary film, depicted how modern food production companies employ technology to produce food on large scales. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown. The director's goal is to provide a realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book Published: 1889
- Yves Potvin, Entrepreneur, Category Innovator, Creator of Gardein<tm>
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Quotes about Farming and Agriculture
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Quotes about Food
Resource Type: Unclassified
- 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.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of animals raised for food in Canada through public education, legislative change and consumer choice.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981
- The Vertical Farming Scam
Wrong on So Many Levels Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with dense human populations, increase production per unit of land area, protect crops against pests without the use of chemicals, and take vulnerable agricultural soils out of production by relocating crops to cities. It can, in fact, achieve none of these goals.
- Who Pays? Who Profits? Food Production in Canada
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983
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