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To change food, change land
Writing about the bridge between food systems change and land reform
Jul 7, 2020
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The Useful Idiot
Dec 16, 2024
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Why won't the "feed the world" myth ever die?
Jul 15, 2025
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Che Guevara, Chez Panisse
Aug 23, 2023
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The Root and Branch Collective
May 19, 2025
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Mainstreaming Land Reform
From Scotland to Cartagena to Sacramento, its increasingly clear land relations must change
Apr 15
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Which farmers does the USDA serve?
A response to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, published in Civil Eats
Mar 3
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More is Less?
Michael Grunwald and the values behind sustainable intensification
Dec 19, 2025
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The Ministry of Spatial Planning
An institution with real power to shape land use, relegated to a meme
Nov 3, 2025
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Elias Konig
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Catherine Koekoek
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The case for a land observatory
New op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle
Sep 1, 2025
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The Afterlives of Coal
Energy transitions without confronting the legacies of land ownership? [Landscapes Podcast 16]
Aug 15, 2025
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Can urban agriculture live up to its inclusivity aspirations?
Stijn van den Oever's reflection on researching the justice dimensions of urban agriculture
Jul 28, 2025
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Why won't the "feed the world" myth ever die?
(New essay in Spectre)
Jul 15, 2025
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The Root and Branch Collective
Turning the Agrarian Question inward, upward, and towards the core
May 19, 2025
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The Afterlives of Coal
Energy transitions without confronting the legacies of land ownership? [Landscapes Podcast 16]
Aug 15, 2025
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Adam Calo
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An Alibi for Ecocide
Interview with the author of Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World (Landscapes Podcast)
Jun 28, 2024
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Landscapes Podcast [14] Kapitaloceen
Building new land relations from within the core: A Dutch land access model
Mar 21, 2024
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Landscapes Podcast [13] The People's Land Policy
A vision for redistributive land reform coming from within the beating heart of neoliberalism
Dec 28, 2023
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Landscapes Podcast [12] Holistic Grazing, Holistic Thinking - Nikki Yoxall
A regenerative livestock farmer defends localism amidst the recent surge in confident food system sustainability claims
Dec 11, 2023
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