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...
The initial hype about the success of the first #Green Revolution in #India saw farmers everywhere in the country rushing to buy more chemical fertilisers. The government too kept subsidizing fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and all types of chemical concoctions...
Right now, there is a battle going on for who controls the system of growing and distributing our food. – the many, or the few. The few come in the guise of large agribusiness corporations and their government backers, whose vision is for a world of...
This article originally appeared on The Guardian on March 9, 2015. Written by: Charles Eisenstein Geoengineering has been back in the news recently after the US National Research Council endorsed a proposal to envelop the planet in a layer of sulphate aerosols...
