We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.

In this commentary, M. Manjula and P. Indira Devi suggest market-based instruments as complementary policy mechanisms for catalyzing the transition to organic farming in India.

Drawing on sources ranging from gardening books and magazines to statistics and oral history, Andrea Gaynor’s book challenges some of the widespread myths about food production in Australian cities and traces the reasons for its enduring popularity.

This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of major Canadian environmental debates between the 1960s and 1980s, and examines a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investments and experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasing attention to urban pollution and pesticide use.

This film examines a vibrant urban farming movement that is catching on across the globe.