Iowa Farmer Doubts National Geographic’s “Five Steps”

May 15, 2014 • Agrarian Trust, Food Systems and Security, Sustainable Farming • By Agrarian Trust

This article, entitled National Geographic’s ‘Five Steps’ Won’t Feed The World: An Iowa Farmer’s View was written by George Naylor and published by the Huffington Post. The brief article, “A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World” offered by Professor Jonathan Foley in the latest National Geographic magazine, clearly states the stark features of a global […]

Experience Speaks: Alternatives to Farm Ownership

May 15, 2014 • Agrarian Commons, Agrarian Trust, Commons Alliance, Food Systems and Security, Land Access Strategies • By Agrarian Trust

Alternatives to Ownership: Land Trusts as Land Reform by Robert Swann In those countries where traditional land reform (redistribution of land to private owners as initiated by the central state – examples in Japan, Taiwan, Iran some South American countries, etc) has taken place, redistribution of land has resulted in some cases (Taiwan for instance) […]