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Food and Agriculture
showcase topics
- Food and Water Watch
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Small Planet Institute
- “The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” poem by Wendell Berry
- Local Harvest community supported agriculture
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin, 2007)
- The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness by A.V. Krebs (Essential Books, 1992)
- The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry (Sierra Club Books, 1977)
- The People’s Land edited by Peter Barnes (Rodale, 1975)
- Food, Inc. film
Food and Agriculture

8 Dec 2009 / Jay Walljasper
View from Africa on Ostrom's Nobel Prize
Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize may be more significant for Africans than Barack Obama's read more

21 Nov 2009 / David Bollier
“The Gleaners and I”
Filmmaker Agnès Varda explores the practice of gleaning in modern-day France. read more
16 Nov 2009 / David Bollier
New Era for Commons-based Development in Africa?: Ostrom’s Nobel validates cooperative strategies for land management. Read more...
1 Nov 2009 / Robert Karp
Who Owns the Land?: Although privately owned, farm land must be treated as a commons Read more...
7 Jul 2009 / David Bollier
Corporate Trawlers Try to Enclose Pacific Fish : Can the privatization of West Coast fisheries be stopped? Read more...
19 Jun 2009 / David Bollier
Getting Junk Out of School Lunches: In Baltimore, Tony Geraci serves wholesome, organic, local food to school kids Read more...
4 Dec 2008 / Mark Muller
Good Food, Good Communities: How to make U.S. farm policy healthier for everyone.
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7 Oct 2008 / Ernest J.P. Muhly
11 Sep 2008 / Danielle Kurtzleben
What's a WWOOF Worth?: Commons lessons learned by two Iowa farm girls working their way across Europe in the World Wide... Read more...
