Remarks at Food + Enterprise, by Woody Tasch

http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/the-state-of-soil-zbwz1507zwea.aspx

Community, Permaculture,  Urban Planning

http://www.cityrepair.org/

Learn from industry and community leaders from across the food and agricultural landscape who are helping to build a more resilient food system through their innovative enterprises!

http://cfs.calpoly.edu/conferences.html

In this selection from his new book, the poet and farmer Wendell Berry connects the dangers of the future to a failure to live fully in the here and now.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/together-with-earth/wendell-berry-climate-change-future-present

Could a controversial farmer in California have found the most effective way to grow food in a warming world?

http://craftsmanship.net/drought-fighters/

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/industrial-agriculture-agroecology-and-climate-change

By the Center for Ecoliteracy

A contribution to discussions at Rio+20 on issues at the interface of hunger, agriculture, environment and social justice. SOCLA’s Rio+20 position paper prepared by Miguel A Altieri, with contributions by Clara Nicholls, Fernando Funes and other members of SOCLA, 05/12

http://futureoffood.org/pdfs/SOCLA_2012_Scaling_Up_Agroecology_Rio20.pdf

By Robbie Couch, Huffington Post, 2/10/15

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/human-trafficking-ciw_n_6647692.html

Local food has been the subject of Federal, State, and local government policy in recent years as consumer interest in and demand for local foods has grown. Because local foods have been linked to the full suite of USDA priorities—including enhancing the rural economy, the environment, food access and nutrition, informing consumer demand, and strengthening agricultural producers and markets—up-to-date information is critical for understanding the evolution and effects of local and regional food systems across the country.

This study by the Economic Research Service finds producer participation in local food systems is growing, and the value of local food sales, defined as the sale of food for human consumption through both direct-to-consumer (e.g., farmers’ markets) and intermediated marketing channels (e.g., sales to institutions or regional distributors), appears to be increasing.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1763062/ap068_report-summary.pdf

A new economic paradigm and whole system approach to local food.

www.thefoodcommons.org