Dig into these titles for Black History Month
Immerse yourself into stories of how Black farmers have shaped agriculture, are working to protect farmland, and so much more!
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Member Profile: Anan Xola Lololi, 27 Years of Black Food Sovereignty, and Counting
EFAO Board Member Anan Lololi is the Chair of the Black Food Sovereignty Working Group, an initiative of Afri-Can FoodBasket that emerged when the organization began working with the City of Toronto’s Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit (CABR) to create The Toronto...
Co-operative Models for Farm Financing
by Thorsten Arnold The land problem In the early 21st century, Ontario faces a farming question that has haunted Europe for centuries: how to protect and ensure access to agricultural land. On average, the price of Ontario’s agricultural land rose by 22% in...
Bringing Ecological Outcome Verification to Ontario’s Temperate Landscape
An adapted EOV for mosaic landscapes by Thorsten Arnold But when I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here -the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver,the turkey, etc., etc. – I cannot but feel as if I...
The Growing Problem of Land Access
by Celeste Lopreiato I’ve been involved with farming for about four years. After an inspiring summer working on my university campus’s organic farm – I caught the bug. Over the past few years I’ve met and talked to hundreds of local ecological vegetable farmers....
Agroecology and the Future of Our Mother Earth
In her book, Who Really Feeds the World, Vandana Shiva emphasizes the central role of Agroecology: “the knowledge and science of the complex interactions that produce our food.”