For such a small group of people we have set ourselves a daunting task, that of challenging the rules that underpin the current world order. Rules that see a tiny minority dictate the way the game is played so they get richer whilst the majority see their living...
As with almost all agricultural policy throughout the world, it seems that life-changing decisions are being made based purely on profit. Detached academics, policy makers and economists seem determined to destroy what has taken many thousands of years to develop....
###Coal mining corporations, with help from governments, continue aquire precious, even ancient #forests either forcefully or through manipulation of forest and land right laws in developing countries. They offer hundreds and thousands of dollars to forest dependent...
Agriculture in so much of the world is still so strongly attached to the rich and sustaining cultures. As children begin to be educated in systems driven primarily by economic concerns, cultural landscapes are beginning to change the aspirations and expectations,...
When we think of farmers, we tend to think of men, but the reality is that at least 50% of all the world’s food is produced by women. In one of the more remote areas of #Odisha, eastern India live small communities of subsistence farmers, who, over the last few years...
