@violetmadder @amenonsen
I think education about soil and systems thinking ist the most inportant achievement of the permaculture movement.

I can live with people having tiny hobby-"permaculture" gardens that look more like an abandoned, weed-infested plot than something you can feed a family with.

And it is totally ok when they get excited about their 8 kg of home-grown tomatoes. Even if they continue to buy most of their vegetables (and of course, all flour and whatever) elsewhere. At least they try. And learn. And they appreciate farming (and hopefully, farmers).

These people work against industrial farming. And when society collapses (nowadays this is more becoming a when than an if question), they'll be able to grow at least a bit of their food.

As a soil microbiologist, I am constantly in a tensed relation with some permaculture gurus without any real farming experience who sell their esoteric design courses to a public that spent their critical thinking already in fighting industrial agriculture and are easily convinced by the offer of simplistic explanations spiced with fancy words (beware of anybody saying "molecular structure" too often 🧐) and makes hyperbolic promises ("My technique increases microbial activity by 1000" or "augmented humus content by several percent in a few years").

But hey, in the end, the permaculture movement as a whole *is* in fact a motor of change towards the right direction. And they have definitely found some truth where extractivist agriculture just survived until now becase nature is surprisingly resilient and we as a society invest a huge amount of resources and technology just to maintain (kids, the times of every year strongly increasing yields are long over) agronomy's sacred grail of productivity while soil fertility is decreasing at a horrible pace. Because of unsustainable agricultural practices.

So we need to keep building the alliance between permaculture movement (or 'agroecologic' or 'regenerative agriculture' or 'biodynamic' or whatever they want to identify themselves), 'real' farmers and researchers, while transforming the food system regarding production, transformation, distribution and consumption. Because every sector of the economy matters.

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Biodynamic #Agriculture #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #Soil

Agriculture Canada destroys decades of work, recovering this work will take decades more.

Yet Carney says “more Canadian food” ? He thinks Canadians are fools?

“On June 9 and 10th 2026, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada at the Swift Current Research and Development Centre proceeded with destruction of the Organic and Regenerative Research Program’s research plots by seeding across the land with wheat, making it impossible to salvage data required to complete studies that were in progress prior the announcement of cuts and closures in January 2026 ..

This week’s seeding operation obliterated the land boundaries that have been in place for 19 years, a fundamental structure for collecting long-term data from the organically-managed soil layers of this research area. AAFC management did not attempt to retrieve scientifically valid soil samples or other data prior to seeding.”

#cdnpoli #agriculture

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"Ahora los productores de alimentos están frente a los consumidores y lo que debería ocurrir es que nos pusiéramos al lado de los consumidores, abriéramos nuestras explotaciones y lo hiciéramos NUESTRO reto... volver a encontrar aliados en esta historia, hacer un plan juntos sólo funcionará cuando la gente se dé cuenta de cómo producimos y por qué".

“Now food producers are opposite consumers and what should happen is that we should move next to the consumers, open up our farms and making it OUR challenge... to find allies again in this story, making a plan together will only work when people realise how we produce and why.”

"Ora i produttori di cibo sono di fronte ai consumatori e quello che dovrebbe succedere è che dovremmo muoverci accanto ai consumatori, aprire le nostre fattorie e farne la NOSTRA sfida... ritrovare alleati in questa storia, fare un piano insieme funzionerà solo quando la gente capirà come produciamo e perché".

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation

"En la agricultura, la corona es una cosa menor, la crisis del nitrógeno va a cambiar la agricultura, tiene que pasar algo. Donde antes había 12 personas trabajando en una granja, ahora hay una. No hay forma de mantener el sistema como está ahora, y ese es un mensaje difícil de escuchar para los agricultores"

“In agriculture, corona is a minor thing, the nitrogen crisis will change agriculture, something has to happen. Where there used to be 12 people working on a farm, now you have one. There is no way we can keep the system how it is now, and that is a difficult message for farmers to hear”

"Nell'agricoltura, la corona è una cosa minore, la crisi dell'azoto cambierà l'agricoltura, deve succedere qualcosa. Dove prima c'erano 12 persone che lavoravano in una fattoria, ora ce n'è una sola. Non c'è modo di mantenere il sistema com'è ora, e questo è un messaggio difficile da ascoltare per gli agricoltori".

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation

"No estábamos preparados para las prisas en las tiendas" y "cada vez más gente empezó a comprar en las tiendas de los agricultores". Durante unas semanas, las ventas en el mercado agrícola cayeron porque la gente evitaba las grandes aglomeraciones, pero también "empezaron a evitar el supermercado, aprendieron a tomarse las cosas con calma y a hacer comida fresca"

“We were completely unprepared for the rush on the shops” and “more and more people began buying at farm shops.” For a few weeks sales at the farmers market fell as people avoided large crowds but also they “started to avoid the supermarket, learned to take it slow and make fresh food”

"Eravamo completamente impreparati per la ressa nei negozi" e "sempre più persone cominciarono a comprare nei negozi agricoli". Per alcune settimane le vendite al mercato contadino sono calate perché la gente ha evitato le grandi folle, ma anche perché "hanno iniziato a evitare il supermercato, hanno imparato a prendersela con calma e a fare cibo fresco"

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation

El lockdown ha sido una afrenta a nuestra facilidad de vida, "la gente se confió demasiado en que todo estaba arreglado para nosotros, es bueno ver que la gente tiene preguntas, sería bueno ver que se toman el tiempo para reorganizar las cosas".

Lockdown has been an affront to our ease of life, “people got a little too confident that everything was arranged for us, it’s nice to see people having questions, it would be nice to see them taking the time to rearrange things”.

Lockdown è stato un affronto alla nostra facilità di vita, "la gente è diventata un po' troppo fiduciosa che tutto sia stato organizzato per noi, è bello vedere le persone che hanno domande, sarebbe bello vedere che si prendono il tempo di riorganizzare le cose".

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation

El lockdown ha sido una afrenta a nuestra facilidad de vida, "la gente se confió demasiado en que todo estaba arreglado para nosotros, es bueno ver que la gente tiene preguntas, sería bueno ver que se toman el tiempo para reorganizar las cosas".

Lockdown has been an affront to our ease of life, “people got a little too confident that everything was arranged for us, it’s nice to see people having questions, it would be nice to see them taking the time to rearrange things”.

Lockdown è stato un affronto alla nostra facilità di vita, "la gente è diventata un po' troppo fiduciosa che tutto sia stato organizzato per noi, è bello vedere le persone che hanno domande, sarebbe bello vedere che si prendono il tempo di riorganizzare le cose".

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation

"Si tienes un buen ecosistema, habrá [un] equilibrio, no hay una plaga que surja porque tienes tantas variedades de estas especies, que hay resiliencia. Funciona. Se fortalecerá el suelo, se producirán alimentos súper sanos y de buena calidad, se embellecerá el paisaje y, lo que es más importante, se embellecerá a la gente".

“If you have a good ecosystem, there will be [a] balance, there is no one pest coming up because you have so many varieties of these species, that there is resilience. It works! It will build up the soil, produce super healthy good quality food, make the landscape more beautiful, and most importantly it will make the people more beautiful.”

"Se hai un buon ecosistema, ci sarà [un] equilibrio, non c'è un solo parassita che viene fuori perché hai così tante varietà di queste specie, che c'è resilienza. Funziona! Costruirà il suolo, produrrà cibo super sano e di buona qualità, renderà il paesaggio più bello e, soprattutto, renderà le persone più belle".

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation

El dominio de las formas globales e industriales de producción, procesamiento y distribución de alimentos, con sus mercados impulsados por la exportación y la importación, tienen un impacto en la naturaleza no natural de la crisis. En Puerto Rico, su condición de estado colonial hace que su sistema alimentario dependa de las importaciones estadounidenses y de la producción de cultivos de exportación. A pesar de estar fuera de la experiencia colonial, los Países Bajos están inmersos en el sistema alimentario mundial y los agricultores descubrieron que los mercados de exportación no servían a las propias comunidades de las que forman parte.

The dominance of the global and industrial forms of food production, processing and distribution, with its export and import driven markets have an impact on the unnatural nature of the crisis. In Puerto Rico, its status as a colonial state leaves its food system reliant on American imports and producing export crops. Despite being outside of the colonial experience, the Netherlands is immersed in the global food system and farmers found export markets did not serve the very communities they are a part of.

#soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #fotovoz #photovoice #agricultura #agriculture #agroecology #agroecologia #food #nature #networks #local #autonomy #thenetherlands #wageningen #wur #farming #grow #farm #foodsystem #wageningeneetduurzam #raicesdesoberania #organic #regenerativeag #future #fertile #soil #ancestors #decolonisation