November Feast and Land Trust Event
Bill Nye on Agriculture and GMO Labeling!
New Food First Brief Highlights US Land Grabs
From Food First: New Brief Highlights Land Grabbing and Resistance in the United States OAKLAND, Calif., October 16, 2014 – Across the United States, communities are fighting to defend the resources they need to produce food. On this World Food Day, Oakland-based Food First/the Institute for Food & Development Policy and the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute […]
WFAN Annual Conference is Coming Up!
The Women Food & Agriculture Network is hosting their annual conference November 14-15th in Iowa. From WFAN: 2014 WFAN Annual Conference Women Doing Democracy: Building Grassroots Coalitions to Grow Healthy Food and Farming in Your Community November 14-15, 2014 Fairfield Arts and Convention Center 200 N. Main St., Fairfield IA Agenda Become a Sponsor Lodging Register […]
Bank of North Dakota: First Time Farmer Lending!
Helping First-Time North Dakota Farmers Finance Their Land. With other big interests vying for land use in the state, and low incomes for beginning farmers, this program could help get farmers on the land. Will it attract sustainable practices? Can it be recreated in other states? Definitely a program to keep an eye on. From […]
Debt-Free Housing Experiment Begins
From Brewster Kahle: Purchasing the first “Foundation House”– Debt-Free Housing Experiment is Starting! Posted on September 14, 2013 by brewster We are purchasing the first apartment building to be a “Foundation House” in San Francisco! (More details on the building). This is a form of Endowment for non-profits in the form of usable housing and […]
Feeding the 1 percent
From grain.org: Since the global food crisis of 2008, there has been a massive wave of private sector investment in agriculture. More money flowing into agriculture means more innovation and modernisation, more jobs and more food for a hungry planet, say the G8, the World Bank and corporate investors themselves. But does it? Looking at […]
Slow Money Conference November 10-12
Fixing the economy, starting with food! http://slowmoney.org/ [gview file=”https://www.agrariantrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Dropbox-Beetcoin_postcard.pdf”]
Hub Camps: Rethinking Food Systems
New food systems for a new world! From Local Orbit: Local Orbit’s Hub Camps are Back! Local Orbit is excited to announce three new Hub Camps: Hub Camp: The Nuts & Bolts of Local Food Distribution November 17-19 in Denver January 24-26 in Portland March 1-3 in San Diego Apply Today Hub Camp […]
The Global Struggle for Food Sovereignty – Upcoming Event
From the Community Alliance for Social Justice Seattle, WA: African and US Food Movement Leaders Unite in Opposition to the Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development Program On October 12th, several of Africa’s leading proponents of sustainable agriculture will take part in a major public event to highlight the damaging effects of the Gates Foundation’s agricultural development […]