"In just over a decade regenerative agriculture has garnered a lot of attention with land-use stakeholders in the Global North. Especially in the food, farming, and environmental sectors. The concept of ‘regenerative’ has also grown beyond reference to agricultural systems and is seen as being the concept-in-waiting for upgrading ideas of sustainability and resilience (Wahl). … Continue reading Introduction to Regenerative Agriculture
Author: khalilavi
How To Count
A short extract from my thesis on Hunting in Northern Cyprus, pages 155-162. Whilst I talk here about counting hunters and hunting, the same approach to critical and analytical thinking used below can be used when counting populations of anything or anyone from potatoes to dragonflies, from patients to priests. I was sitting opposite Hasan, … Continue reading How To Count
The Plutocratic Platform State
https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1379761835075891200?s=20 The new concept needed is the Platform State. Take England. A year of pandemic lockdowns, exacerbated by a failed test and trace system and an underresourced NHS. For those of you who pay attention to the inherent logic of political narrative in England and how its plays out on the ground, you will be … Continue reading The Plutocratic Platform State
Nayland Rock
It was the summer after the pandemic first hit. We had been told to only meet outside. I lived in Margate. A coastal town sprawling across the northern shores of the long lost Isle of Thanet. My friend Joe had responded to the news of needing to meet outside by inviting me to learn to … Continue reading Nayland Rock
Biome Trade or Onka’s Big Moka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-7BQlJKJ_U The UK retail market in groceries was over 200 billion in 2020. Of that over 96% of groceries were delivered by supermarkets of somekind. Of that around 7.5% was fresh food, whilst just over half of the food consumed in the UK is locally produced (fresh and non-fresh). On the other hand there is … Continue reading Biome Trade or Onka’s Big Moka
