1. Alternative Americas
   An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
3. Connexions
   Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
4. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1981
   
6. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1988
   
7. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1988
   
8. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
9. Farmageddon
   The True Cost of Cheap Meat
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014
   An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry.
10. Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
11. 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.
12. Islam Resistance and reform
    New Internationalist May 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look into the world of Islamic faith. Discussion of current issues and a look at key moments of Islamic civilazation.
13. 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.
14. Meeting the Expectations of the Land 
    Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
15. 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.
16. Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
17. Quotes about Farming and Agriculture
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
18. Restructuring and Resistance
    Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
19. "Small really is beautiful", claims new report on England's farming
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A report on the benefits of small-scale farming practices in England, arguing that land size should not be used to exclude farms from receiving subsidies.
20. 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.
21. 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.

Experts on Pratiques agricoles_ in the Sources Directory

1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources