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Ants, Grasshoppers, and Agroecology
The fine people at the Scientific American have released an article explaining agroecology in time for today’s UN Food Systems summit. In it, I talk about my time in Malawi working with Soils, Food...
View ArticleEPA Pesticide approvals 1975-2022
It has been so long since I updated this site, it’s a little beyond embarrassing. The reasons are many: the promotional tour for book and film, teaching two courses, plotting a lot of writing with...
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Save Tierras Milperas
I don’t often post here but it’s not often that I think that letter-writing can make a difference. This is one such occasion. I had the chance to spend some time this past week with the communities...
View ArticleThe Ants & The Grasshopper: The Series
One of the reasons I’ve been neglecting my writing here, and in the academic world, is because I’ve been exploring new ways of sharing and connecting over ideas with folk outside the worlds in which I...
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The Grammar of a Future New International Economic Order
I’m on the road for an exciting new book project. It’s hard to imagine posting with even less frequency here, but to make up for an absence of New Things, here’s a piece I wrote for the good folk at...
View ArticleHunger, Debt and Interest Rates
The awful choice between feeding the hungry or paying creditors isn’tjust one faced by indebted households. Countries are in similar straits. Hunger is both a fiscal issue and a monetary one. I put...
View ArticleThe Dalit Panthers Manifesto
It’s harder to track down the Dalit Panthers’ manifesto than it should be. Here’s an attempt to fix that, reproducing the text from “The Dalit Panthers and Their Manifesto.” Religion and Society 22,...
View ArticleFood Sovereignty in the 2020s
The Alameda Institute, whose research director is the excellent Sabrina Fernandes, has put together a fantastic dossier on food sovereignty called Seeds of Sovereignty: Contesting the Politics of...
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Agricultural Subsidy Transition Bonds
You can tell I’m looking for excuses not to knuckle down and finish my next book project, because I’m catching up with posting things here. I’m very pleased to have put together a bit of research on...
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H5N1p-2025: A Scenario
The pig lies in its own waste, pressed against the metal grating of an industrial gestation crate in Duplin County, North Carolina. It’s March 2025, and she’s running a fever. Her lungs burn with two...
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