1. Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   "We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
2. Agroecology leading the fight against India's Green Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
3. The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You've Never Heard of
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   How plastic waste is used on the farm for agriculture.
4. Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
5. Bustan
   Resource Type: Website
   A partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice in Israel/Palestine. BUSTAN cultivates sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action. BUSTAN utilizes the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic divides.
6. Can We Live and Eat Too?
   Against The Current vol. 131
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   In 1579, the fleet of British explorer Sir Francis Drake met the coast of what we now call California. Drake, who would dub his discovery “New Albion” (Albion being the Latin name for Britain), thought he had happened upon an island. Though the source of California’s present-day name is obscure, at least one etymological theory suggests that Drake was not alone in imagining the place as a world apart; the first literary reference to “California,” in a 1510 novel by Spanish writer García Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Esplandián, depicts an island in the Pacific inhabited by Amazonian women.
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Pilot Copy, February 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 2
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
11. A century of sugar and tears
    Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
12. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
13. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
15. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
16. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
17. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
18. Farming Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
19. Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974   Published: 2012
    Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
20. Feeding body and soul - an exploration of Britain's new age landworkers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    There is a change being made in food production that have individual reaping healthier and energy preserving benefits.
21. The Future of Food
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2004
    Explores the radical changes in our diet and our food in the last half century.
22. Golden Rice ignores the risks, the people and the real solutions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    'Golden Rice' is being promoted by GM advocates as a solution to malnutrition. But Daniel Ocampo says it is for the 'target populations' in the Philippines and elsewhere to decide whether to accept the technology - and they don't want it!
23. The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    All of this ecological destruction has been driven by America’s most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
24. I was wrong on veganism
    Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
25. Marx as a Food Theorist 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
26. Meat: A Benign Extravagance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    An exploration of the difficult environmental and ethical issues that surround the human consumption of animal flesh.
27. Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
28. New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
29. No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
31. Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
32. Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
    The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1973
    
33. Strong Meat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The meat-producing system Simon Fairlie advocates differs sharply from the one now practised in the rich world: low energy, low waste, just, diverse, small-scale. But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
34. The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
35. Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
36. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism 
    A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
37. Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Excerpted from the book "Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit".

Experts on Pratiques agricoles in the Sources Directory

1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations