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Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
Food Among the Ruins
Dowie, Mark
Article
2009
Guernica
Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to ...
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
Decker, Kris De
Article
2016
Resilience
We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always l...
In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
Whitman, Elizabeth
Article
2013
Inter Press Service
A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urb...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la...
The Vertical Farming Scam
Wrong on So Many Levels
Cox, Stan
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with de...


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