Multimedia | film profile
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The Real Dirt on Farmer John is the story of an Americal traditional family farm turned organic agricultural enterprise.
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Multimedia | film profile
Raising Resistance
Raising Resistance tells the story of Paraguay’s small-scale farmers resistance against genetic soy enterprises.
Perspectives Article
The View from Below: On Energy in Soils (and Food)
This article looks at the energy investment that goes into the provision of nutrients and into habitat improvement for the subterranean workforce of earthworms on which agriculture depends.
Perspectives Article
Energy Regimes, Foodways, and the Efficiency of the Human Engine
This essay explores connections between energy regime changes and nutrition, as well as the impact of such changes on nutritional knowledge and food policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Exhibition chapter
Tomorrow’s diet: Food from the laboratory | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Multimedia | book profile
State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet
State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet introduces the latest agro-ecological innovations and their global applicability and also gives broader insights into issues including poverty, international politics, and even gender equity.
Multimedia | book profile
The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb criticizes overpopulation and advocates instant action to limit population growth. The author justifies his arguments with huge starvation threats and other trouble spots.
Multimedia | journal article
Pilgrim, Karyn, "‘Happy Cows,’ ‘Happy Beef’: A Critique of the Rationales for Ethical Meat"
Within a vegetarian ecofeminist framework, Pilgrim analyses three popular nonfiction books that construct narratives around the story of meat.
Perspectives Article
The Ecological Sustainability of Local Food Systems
Although simply reducing food miles does not guarantee a more sustainable diet, choosing to participate in alternative local food systems instead of the conventional food system is a sure way to increase your access to environmentally friendly food and to support more ecologically sustainable agricultural practices.
Perspectives Article
Revisiting Forgotten Foods: A Case Study from California
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.