National Geographic asks “Where will we find enough food for 9 billion?”
Author Jonathan Foley presents a 5-step plan to feed the world.

Many outside Australia would perhaps be surprised that the country’s two big food retailers control 73% of the market. A Guardian story on how Australia’s food industry is shifting as small-scale producers chip away at the domination of major suppliers.

In “The Commons as a Template for Transformation“, David Bollier argues that, in the face of the deep pathologies of neoliberal capitalism, the commons paradigm can help us imagine and implement a transition to new decentralized systems of provisioning and democratic governance.

And finally, in “Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in Eastern Ontario“, authors (and Nourishing Communities researchers) Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie and Brynne Sinclair-Waters argue that, while a ‘neoliberal lens’ helps to illuminate some problematic characteristics of community-based food initiatives in Eastern Ontario, “this lens underestimates those aspects of community-based food initiatives that may appear commensurate with neoliberal rationalities but which also push in more progressive directions.”