Articles

Having it all
Could private funding actually benefit nature? Henry Leveson-Gower proposes a cooperative approach. Since the 80s environmental economists have been putting monetary values on nature so they get “counted”. Now they

A Puerto Rican recipe for food sovereignty
Georges Félix tells why farmers in the Caribbean are turning down dependency and taking up the yoke. The foods we choose to consume and the strategies we use to produce

Farmers plough their own furrow to change
A brew of chemical fertilisers, sewage and other pollutants is costing lives and money as it splashes over our environment and our dinner plates. Jyoti Banerjee and Arnav Jain offer

Cash crops
Henry Leveson-Gower looks at how local food currencies might bear fruit. Our food system is deeply dysfunctional. Economic forces drive it to deliver unhealthy food, while trashing the environment so

Farming: a woman’s work
Yashaswi Shetty and Hamza Ahmad, describe how women in India’s agricultural sector are pushing back barriers to their recognition and security. Surinder Kaur is a member of the Kisan Sabha

Off the scale
Locally grown food is growing. Can data help plough the furrow? By Lynne Davis 2020 was a year like no other, but for those of us working in community-led food

Peddle Preneur
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An isolated problem
Food insecurity grows when the sense of community is low. Megan Blake tells how people have stepped up to the challenge. Kora and Ryan are just starting out on

All for One
A combination of government edicts, broken promises and climate change has driven Malian villagers away from their collective livelihoods and traditions to bring prosperity for the few, not for the

The lie of the land
Is small holding the future of farming? Nick Meynen reports from Flanders’ field. There’s a fast-spreading farming model that gives farmers hope, spares soils and cures our climate. Belgium farmer,

A new steer
Spanish farms are revitalising their land on the hoof. Sacha Bernal Coates and Kerry Wolters explain how the herd instinct holds back the desert. Manuel’s ranch is an hour’s drive

Save our bacon
Food isn’t what it used to be. Peter Manley says its time to green up your eats. The range of foods available today in the developed world spans a nutritional spectrum

Workers byte back
Cross-border brands feel the heat from digitally organised labour. Grazia Ietto-Gillies explains. In 2014 the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) declared that in some 43 labour disputes filed since

Fiscal fizz is less sweet
One year on, Ben Reynolds explores the impact of the high-profile “sugar tax”, and where it might go in future. I remember the moment, when two years into running a

Is meat dying?
As plant-based, flesh-like foods proliferate is the meat market being butchered. Dr Alexandra Sexton writes Vegan burger-maker, Beyond Meat, recently made global headlines for achieving the strongest public trading debut
News
Columns

The nature of the beast
Verity delves into the environmental economics undergrowth. Our peaceful piece of suburbia is feeling particularly tame at the moment. A far cry from the perilous encounters to be had in

Ground control
Control of land has been a key driver of wealth, power and conflict for most of human history. The industrial revolution changed all that as power shifted from landowners to

Keep calm, don’t carry on
I was asked recently, did I think there was time to avoid climate chaos. I couldn’t help myself. I got caught by the urge to reassure: “Oh yes,” I said,
Books

The Waste-Free World
From the publisher: Our take-make-waste economy has cost consumers and taxpayers billions while cheating us out of a habitable planet. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Waste-Free

The Future of Food
From the publisher: By the middle of this century, we will have nine billion mouths to feed and nobody who wants to be a farmer. Projections suggest we might not

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