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

• Essential Food Policy Proposals. By MARK BITTMAN

Resources

1. Food financing in the U.S. Northwest

Key Articles and Essays

1. Jan Douwe van de Ploeg: Reconstitution of the Peasantry in the 21st Century
2. Report: Agroecology and the Right to Food : A move by farmers in developing countries to ecological agriculture, away from chemical fertilisers and pesticides, could double food production within a decade [1]

How-to:

1. Five innovations for urban gardening
2. Ensuring Land Access, by Rob Hopskins.

Key Blogs

1. Permatechie: a blog about the intersection of ecovillages and hackspaces, ecology and technology, primitivism and transhumanism, permaculture and appropriate technology.

Key Books

1. The Ecological Revolution – Making Peace with the Planet. John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2009, 288 pp [2]
2. Food rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice. Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel, Pambazuka Press, Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford, 2009 [3]
3. Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities. Carlo Petrini. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010. [4]
4. Reclaiming Public Water. Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World. By Brid Brennan, et al. download: The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the goal of delivering water for all.

Policy guide:

• The Future Control of Food. A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security. Edited By Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte. IDRC, 2010 [5] : “This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security."

Key Movements

1. Campesino a Campesino
2. Slow Food
3. 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 [6]
3. Report: Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life. ETC Group, 2008. [7]. 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