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Farmers' market in Stroud. Gloucestershire. 2008. Attribution: Jongleur100
Stay updated with, and share the latest global news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups with a focus or interest in food activism, food security, food sovereignty and food justice.
2025
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‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city, theguardian.com (Feb 06, 2025) - ‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2025)
- Carbon capture in Mediterranean soil: how farmland can trap greenhouse gases, theconversation.com (Jan 30, 2025)
2024
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- City Planning, Provincial Rulemaking Take a Snow Day, energymixweekender.substack.com (Dec 08, 2024) — Developers are consulted lavishly. Citizens get less than a week to respond, with city services and prime farmland hanging in the balance. What if cities started listening to the public? Lella Blumer
- Resilient farming in northern Ghana, Agroecology blueprint for other drought-prone regions across Africa, news.mongabay.com (Dec 05, 2024)
- Ripple Effect: Observations from a visiting organic farmer, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Dec 03, 2024)
- ‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property, theguardian.com (Nov 28, 2024)
- In India, Good Health Starts in the Soil, reasonstobecheerful.world (Nov 19, 2024)
- Lineage of chiefs build a thriving fish oasis in Lake Malawi, news.mongabay.com (Nov 04, 2024)
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- ‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers, theguardian.com (Oct 31, 2024)
- The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
- The Farmers Abandoning Big Ag to Grow Mushrooms and Herbs, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 17, 2024)
- Forest and water source restoration in Cameroon offering sustainable solutions, news.mongabay.com (Sep 16, 2024)
- ‘The system is the problem, not people’: how a radical food group spread round the world, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — Incredible Edible’s guerrilla gardening movement encourages people to take food-growing – and more – into their own hands. “The biggest obstacle is the inability of people in elected positions to cede power to the grassroots,” Pam Warhurst
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- The idea of a "public diner" has much historical precedent - and leads the way to a better food culture for the future, Daily Alternative (Aug 29, 2024)
- Sustaining birds, bees & communities, Rio’s grassroots agroforestry, news.mongabay.com (Aug 13, 2024)
- Clam gardening building resilience among Indigenous youth on Canada’s West Coast, news.mongabay.com (Aug 06, 2024)
- This LA Restaurant Serves Up Empowerment for Refugees, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 12, 2024)
- Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden
- "Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)
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- ‘A sanctuary’: how neglected Native American communities are organizing their own food hubs, theguardian.com (Jun 06, 2024)
- International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
- The Rise of the Carbon Farmer, wired.com (Apr 18, 2024)
- The "Lebensmittepunkte" - or Berlin's Food Hubs - are a perfect and sustainable fit for the idea of the fifteen-minute city, Daily Alternative (Apr 15, 2024)
- Women fight back as Milei’s government tries to starve their soup kitchens, opendemocracy.net (Apr 03, 2024)
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- The best solutions to make life possible in the Caatinga semiarid region are those born from popular wisdom. “Those that sprout like a seed you put in the ground.” Tião Alves, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- How traditional Hawaiian food is playing a key role in wildfire recovery, theguardian.com (Feb 21, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds, theguardian.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- Climate-resilient millet revived by Indigenous Gurung farmers in Nepal, news.mongabay.com (Jan 01, 2024)
2023
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- Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023) — Local farmers in Southeastern Spain countering desertification with regenerative agriculture
- The seed guardians of Peru trying to save the potato, BBC Future (Oct 03, 2023)
- The farm that grows vegetables in the middle of the desert, positive.news (Jul 19, 2023)
- Is it time to choose sustainable rice?, Wicked Leeks (Jul 17, 2023) — You might not know it, but traditional rice cultivation emits serious levels of greenhouse gases. Clare Hargreaves interviews a man working with rice farmers to get climate-friendlier rice onto British dinner plates.
- With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2023)
- Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops, newscientist.com (Jul 12, 2023)
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- How India’s ‘millet ambassador’ preserves ancient grains – and helps promote food security, The Guardian (Jun 23, 2023)
- Uganda’s Communal Food ‘Epicenters’ Aim to End Hunger Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 26, 2023) — Pushing past the conventional food aid model, a regenerative farming system offers a recipe for success — and self-reliance. Peter Yeung
- Community spirit and organic farming buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town, news.mongabay.com (May 15, 2023)
- How to host: Stress-free communal eating, Wicked Leeks (May 15, 2023)
- ‘Harvesting water’: Indigenous Bolivian women lead organic farming project against climate change, Global Voices (May 11, 2023)
- Vermont farm models diverse method of raising sustainable grains: Duck, duck, rice, news.mongabay.com (Mar 22, 2023)
- Biodynamic agripreneurs are set to trigger an organic farming trend in Nepal, Global Voices (Feb 10, 2023)
2022
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- Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues, The Conversation (Oct 17, 2022)
- From Seed Library to Seed Company: The story of K Greene and the Hudson Valley Seed Company, slowfoodusa.org (Aug 15, 2022)
- Rio's residents garden their way out of hunger, BBC News (Jul 02, 2022)
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- The Caribbean's ‘looming’ food security storm suddenly seems more threatening, Global Voices (Jun 29, 2022)
- Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows, The Conversation (Jun 27, 2022)
- The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows, The Conversation (Jun 21, 2022)
- The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2022)
- Young Indian farmers are turning to an ancient crop to fight water stress and climate change, The Conversation (May 11, 2022)
- The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future, The Guardian (May 07, 2022)
- Swap salmon for sardines to keep four million tonnes of fish in the sea, The Conversation (Mar 01, 2022)
2021
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- These apps aim to reduce the social and environmental impacts of food waste, Shareable (Dec 23, 2021)
- The Landworkers’ Alliance responds to the National Food Strategy and calls for more support for local food systems and producers, Aug 24...landworkersalliance.org.uk
- Berkeley’s Ohlone Park Crop Swap builds community through food, Jul 6...berkeleyside.org
- ‘System in crisis’ as ministers fail to fight food waste and poverty, Apr 14...bigissue.com
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