Why indeed? A snail has no notion of roads, what they are made of or what they are used for or even that it is lousy habitat for a gastropod. So what, you might ask...
Feeding Everyone Well
Join passion-driven minds finding solutions to the global food, ecology & diet challenge
MarkFinding solutions to future food
Humans are good at errors. We love telling people that they are wrong even when our pot is as burnt as their kettle. Critiques are not enough to shape our future...
Meatless Monday?
It might make you feel good to go meatless on a Monday. But what about the billions of people who do not have the luxury of such a choice? Where do they get their nutrients?
ChrisShould farmers be indentured servants?
Modern food production is geared for profit. The producer has less and less control over the process that sets input costs and price. Is it time for governments to intervene to support the family farm?
Rising inequality and food
The good, the bad, and the ugly of capitalism are with everyone now. Inequality is especially insidious with the concentration of wealth and access to food creating a wicked conundrum...
Latest articles
Food
Yield volatility can cripple a farm, just ask Joe
Farming is a tough gig. Uncertainty, volatility and so many factors that cannot be controlled makes you wonder why anyone would take it on. Thankfully many do, including our buddy Joe.
Some very scary shit on soil
Soil is a precious resource that is easily damaged and depleted by agricultural practices. Once damaged, soils are less productive and not easily renewed. This should scare the pants off you.
Not just about increasing yield
Global food production is not just about increasing yield to meet demand, even if that presents an opportunity for profit.
Audacious agriculture ideas for Australia
In an address to Congress on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy's set a national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth". We need such audacious ideas today.
The four pillars of food security
If you are reading this post, there is a good chance that you are one of the luckiest humans ever to have lived. At least you are well fed.
Ecology
Soil at the heart of six global challenges
Almost all of the food grown to feed everyone well requires soil. This universal truth has been with humans every step out of Africa and across the planet.
Comment | A challenging ecological reality
The global soil carbon debt is real, potentially collapse-inducing and should scare the pants off everyone. As with any loan, eventually, repayments must be greater than withdrawals
Silent Spring
On 27 September 2022, it was 60 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, an early warning of what human economic activity will do to nature.
More carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere
Is there more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere? Simple enough question, but do you know the answer?
You really need to know this
Sometimes it is necessary to take stock, to sit under a shady tree and contemplate what brought you to this tree. Then imagine what happens next, given the journey taken and the opportunity to ponder.
Diet
Vegetarianism will save the planet? Maybe, maybe not.
If we all ate less meat or even ditched animal-based food altogether would such a radical diet shift save the planet? Assuming that she needs saving, not a given, then would vegetarianism be enough?
People want to eat what they like
Food is plentiful and cheap in many parts of the world and most of it is made to be eaten in abundance. A market success with a twist.
A healthy diet starts with a deep breath
Just because Tic Toc has a million videos of random people making keto cakes, it doesn’t mean you have to eat them.
Can a westerner live on $5 a day for food?
Westerners are used to supermarket shelves stacked with processed foods of all kinds and a trolly ready to be filled with our selections. But what would happen if the food budget was meagre?
Should you become a vegan to save the planet?
We could all just eat plants because health and vitality are a kale salad away. But there is no simple switch for such a drastic change in global land use…
