This new section will cover p2p-oriented and relocalization trends in agriculture and food production.

We are in the process of porting the related articles from our Ecology section. First column done so far.

For a closer watch of these developments, see our delicious tags:

1. P2P-Agriculture
2. P2P-Food

Introduction

• Grain proposes: Five key steps towards a food system that can address climate change and the food crisis

Resources

Key Articles and Essays

1. Jan Douwe van de Ploeg: Reconstitution of the Peasantry in the 21st Century

Key Books

1. The Ecological Revolution – Making Peace with the Planet. John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2009, 288 pp [1]
2. Food rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice. Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel, Pambazuka Press, Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford, 2009 [2]
3. Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities. Carlo Petrini. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010. [3]

Key Movements

1. Slow Food
2. Terra Madre Network

Key Policy Documents

1. Measures for Relocalization and Reruralization, 2 times four essential policy principles, as proposed by Mariarosa Dalla Costa
2. Report: “Our Water Commons, Towards a New Freshwater Narrative” by Maude Barlow [4]
3. Report: Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life. ETC Group, 2008. [5]. Implications of commodifying Synthetic Biology
4. Policy propositions for sustaining food & farming systems, for Victoria, Australia
5. Grain: Five key steps towards a food system that can address climate change and the food crisis

Key Webcasts

• Dirt!: excellent documentary