Blog for People, Food and Nature

Gender has a whole lot more to do with the landscape of Burkina Faso than meets the eye. Editor's Note: Marlène Elias, as part of the IUCN's Case Study Series on Gender and Restoration, writes about the distinct relationships that each gender has with various crops—in this case it's the shea tree—and how these…

[caption id="attachment_6250" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] A farmer cultivates his rice using an “alternate wetting and drying” technique[/caption] Elise Ursin, EcoAgriculture Partners As it becomes increasingly clear that industrial agriculture is not sustainable, the current search for alternatives may ver…

By Eva Fillion, EcoAgriculture Partners The world’s population continues to outgrow our capacity to produce and distribute enough nutritious food for all. With this steadily ballooning population, increasing hunger and evidence that industrial agriculture contributes heavily to climate change, achieving food secu…

  English Español Over the past few years I’ve often wondered—why do some agricultural training programs inspire farmers to make real changes in their fields, while others amount to little more than a free lunch for participants? Recently, an approach developed by the staff of one of Episcopal…

  Interest in agricultural sustainability can be traced to environmental concerns that began to appear in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with books by Rachel Carson and Barbara Ward. However, concepts and practice of sustainability date back at least to the oldest surviving texts from China, India, Greece an…

By Courtney White, Quivira Coalition This is the story of how I came into Carbon Country. I’m a former archaeologist and Sierra Club activist who became a dues-paying member of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association as a producer of local, grass-fed beef. For a boy raised in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, …