Category:Food and Agriculture

Control over one's food is indispensable to human dignity. We want to empower you to grow healthy, fresh, organic food in a way that is sustainable, easy and fun. To this end, we are collecting tools and know-how about different methods of producing food. Pick-and-mix according to your own needs, preferences and local opportunities and start building a food production system for your local community. We call it Open Source Agroecology: people providing people with the knowledge to sustainably grow their own food. No pesticide or fertilizer is needed, no ecosystems are harmed and the food grown will allow people to live in robust health.

We are enabling a radical decentralization of food production. Rather than growing food on large farms and shipping it to processing plants to be turned into mass-produced goods, we are giving people the tools to grow the food they need in their own backyard, balcony or local allotment. A food system characterized by centralized production and top-down distribution has led to a billion people being undernourished; decentralized food-production leads to equitable distribution of food. It also eliminates the need for transporting food, which inevitably involves some of it spoiling and also requires unnecessary expenditure of fuel and energy resources.

Key Videos

• Fantastic and inspiring video of one man in India attempting to keep sustainable agriculture alive, rather than selling out to the corporations who destroy our ways of life and our planet.
  • Natabar Sarangi / The Source on the Socially Minded Documentaries Vimeo channel.