Systems thinking food writer Michael Pollan interviewed by Vancouver’s the Tyee after a talk in support of the University of British Columbia’s Farm. The interview – Garden Fresh – discusses US agricultural policy and resilience food systems: On whether he’s trying to rally a movement in time to avert disaster, or just prepare us for […]
From California Monthly, the alumni magazine of University of California, an interview with Michael Pollan, author of many good, systemically informed books and articles about food, plants, and people (e.g. an article about the US cattle industry). His book The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World is a great exploration of the […]
Jon Foley argues for the integration of industrial and organic agriculture to meet the challenge of rising demand for agriculture production in a turbulent world in Room for Debate Blog on Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger? … Currently, there are two paradigms of agriculture being widely promoted: local and organic systems versus globalized and […]
Michael Pollan writes on potential reform of the US’s pathologic farm bill in the New York Times Magazine: A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of […]
Michael Pollan article The Vegetable-Industrial Complex in the October 15th New York Times describes an example of Holling’s pathology of natural resource management in agriculture. Wendell Berry once wrote that when we took animals off farms and put them onto feedlots, we had, in effect, taken an old solution — the one where crops feed […]
Recently Resilience Alliance (RA) members and partners were asked “what are the best books that you have read in the past year”? Their book suggestions have been compiled into a four-page annotated booklist. The list of both fiction and non-fiction books includes many familiar titles as well as less-familiar but very intriguing books that have […]