In a new publication I explore how right-wing social movements invoke the sanctity of property to build agrarian coalitions and why this is problematic for the good food movement.

Frontiers | Farmers and the defense of property

This article explores how the invocation of property serves as a key legitimizing practice for contemporary right-wing social movements within agri-food syst...

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Thinking aloud, on a recent ecohana.org call all the issues around making a commons work (and reflecting on many issues & failures) came up. While I haven't read it deeply there's an interesting interview by @adamcalo.bsky.social w/ @davidbollier.bsky.social touching on Ostrom commons limitations:

Our paper "Transforming Land for Sustainable ood Systems" is the journal Elementa's "Editor Pick." doi.org/10.1525/elem...

An Abundance of food commodities does not equate to a reduction in food insecurity.

Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.

Podcast Episode · The Daily · August 5 · 31m

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Reposting because … Always ask, efficiency for what and for whom?

Can Agriculture and Biodiversity Coexist?

Some claim that higher agricultural productivity is necessary to protect biodiversity. But such an approach can be counterproductive.

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New article coming soon: Farmers and the defense of property.

Frontiers | Farmers and the defense of property

This article explores how the invocation of property serves as a key legitimizing practice for contemporary right-wing social movements within agri-food syst...

frontiersin.org

Lazy land sparing rhetoric from Ezra Klein, which is actually an incredible shaky pillar of the Abundance thesis.

Farms that educate may be the farms that persist. New research with colleagues from Norway: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

Frontiers | Territorializing food systems through pedagogical broadening: the case of Voll Farm

Urban food system transformation requires new interfaces between citizens, policymakers, and producers. This paper examines how multifunctional farms can ado...

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Immortalized in my outrage at the NYT opinion page.

Our visit to the biesterhof was amazing. Big thanks to @adamcalo.bsky.social for holding the space for an engaging discussion with @davidbollier.bsky.social and Howard Koster for sharing story, curiosity, food, & theory to ground relational finance & commoning at the farm.

Farm classroom today as part of the Food Commons Summer School organized by @oonamorrow.bsky.social

In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement - The American Prospect

The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.

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Upcoming Webinar: The question of land in a Good Food Nation

Resisting uncritical adoption of AI at the university

Lecture and Discussion: Against the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in education

Dear community,

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Pope vs. Property “Certainly there is a right to private property, which has its own specific meaning and purpose, yet it is always subordinate to the universal destination of goods.”

Collective non-property in a post-capitalist system "Kapitaloceen’s ownership structure is creatively set up to ensure that the central question of ‘who owns the land’ is reframed to be ‘who has decision-making power over this land’." #SustainableFoodSystems

TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How can alternative land ownership models support a sustainable food transition? This new TABLE essay explores how examples from the Netherlands could inspire agricultural property relations in Scotland. Read here: buff.ly/n8TYStD

measurement <-> meaning

Gabriel Siqueira@gabrieldread.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The real issue isn’t “<2 ha vs the rest”, it’s family farming that feeds people vs commodity agriculture that feeds corporate supply chains.

Our PhD student Lin Batten (co-supervised by @malcolmcombe.bsky.social Combe and Dr Brian Garvey of the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation) has co-authored an essay about what Scotland can learn from the Netherlands when it comes to land use.

TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How can alternative land ownership models support a sustainable food transition? This new TABLE essay explores how examples from the Netherlands could inspire agricultural property relations in Scotland. Read here: buff.ly/n8TYStD

Less focus on land use. More on land governance!

TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How can alternative land ownership models support a sustainable food transition? This new TABLE essay explores how examples from the Netherlands could inspire agricultural property relations in Scotland. Read here: buff.ly/n8TYStD

Of all the weird talking points that exist in the centre-right abundance / permitting reform movement, this is the one that just absolutely burrows into my brain the most, because it is just so intensely, profoundly and shockingly energy illiterate.

Texas is showing us what real ‘abundance’ looks like

About this time last year, I wrote a post about Texas and California. The two populous American states are often held up against one another to make a simple point: a deregulated and ‘abundan…

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I read that whole "why I - the mouthpiece for abundance - am worried about what I unleashed" transcript and it's stunning in its misdiagnosis of the problems of our time or the stakes of getting everything so wrong.

the incoherence of the ecomodernist position is driving me absolutely crazy (not sure where this thread is going yet, it's hard to know where to start)

The Era of the Climate Hawk Is Over

By Alex Trembath

breakthroughjournal.org

What if the goal was to free agriculture from input dependence instead of maximizing yields?

Episode 2: Growing Resilience

Podcast Episode · Agroecology Uprooted · April 28 · 31m

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Agribusiness execs banked $515 million from selling shares during key price hikes due to the Iran and Ukraine wars The findings come weeks after the United Nations’ World Food Programme warned that the conflict in the Middle East could push roughly 45 million more people into acute hunger

DeSmog@desmog.com · 4mo ago

🔴 NEW - Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

The deeper issue with this type of claim is that it implicitly makes an argument about broader food system sustainability, while only narrowly referencing carbon emissions.

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On Twitter I once shared that transport accounts for only 3-6% of food-related emissions, and the vast bulk of food emissions are from land use & ag production, and WHAT (eg beef) matters way more than WHERE. I woke up to hundreds of angry responses from people in the UK who produce or eat meat.

The path to sustainable food is through alternative land and economic relationships. Sign up for this food commons summer school.

Oona Morrow@oonamorrow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Registration is open until May 8th ! We have some very exiting days shaping up. I am especially looking forward to our visit to www.biesterhof.nl and discussing commoning land, finance and enterprise with @adamcalo.bsky.social and @davidbollier.bsky.social @ruralsociologywu.bsky.social

Land Food Nexus roundup

Mainstreaming Land Reform

From Scotland to Cartagena to Sacramento, its increasingly clear land relations must change

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Far from alone + insurmountable barrier = a justification for land reform

Civil Eats@civileats.com · 5mo ago

"Despite all of the advantages I have, I don’t have the capital to purchase farmland. . . . That barrier is nearly insurmountable without help. And I am far from alone." Read the op-ed by Amanda Koehler, a farmer and the manager of the Land, Capital, and Market Access Network. ⬇️

On the myth of feeding the world, land reform, and the pitfalls of productivism with the 'In a Nutshell' podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/2RWe...