I am pleased to share this important commentary calling for a paradigm shift in African agricultural development. Message me for a copy if needed www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZUB2Q...

An honor to speak with this group and think through the opportunities and limits of agriculture as social and ecological reproduction youtu.be/f_76dHbL4oc

NRAS Research Dialogues | Dr. Andrew Flachs, Purdue University

YouTube video by Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies

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Fun conversation with Dr. Quave about the real value of a farm, measured not only by what it produces, but also by the communities, skills, and ecosystems it sustains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeC7...

Feeding the World as if People Mattered with Dr. Andrew Flachs

YouTube video by TeachEthnobotany

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Life is more expensive because inflation, a tax on the consumption of working people, is tied to war, oil, housing, and food. Consolidation within the grocery industry limits competition and contributes to higher prices against building a livable world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyc...

Sticker Shock: What is Eating My Grocery Bill

YouTube video by Robin Hamilton (ARound Robin Production, LLC)

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Spent yesterday working on a detailed critique of some of the "methods" that Joseph Henrich used in his recently released report attacking sociocultural anthropology. He was the sole anthropologist involved with the Vanderbilt Report. It's long, but the more I looked the more issues I noticed.

Former advisory council member chairing search for head of Iowa’s center for intellectual freedom to republican member of congress: “you have complete contempt for those academics who do not adhere to the dominant, leftist ideology on [the] university campus.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Faculty Advisers Resign After Call for Iowa Civics Center ‘Reset’

Eleven members of the Center for Intellectual Freedom’s Advisory Council stepped down this week. It’s the latest birth pang for such entities, which are created by Republican lawmakers and boards at p...

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Thread on solar vs. farmland debate: 1/n Enviro writer Bill McKibben: "“If you care about the future of agriculture on this planet,” he added, ​“you should be focused on driving down carbon emissions so we will still be able to grow things.”" www.canarymedia.com/.../lowell-v....

Neither rain nor sleet nor flight delays will stop the intrepid @alofstehage.bsky.social from delivering today's talk on his great book Soylandia, sponsored by Purdue Anthropology and Purdue Horticulture and Landscape Architecture cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Anthropologist Andrew Flachs @drflachsophone.bsky.social applies a social reproduction lens to food production, and makes the case for small-scale farming @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

NEW: How to feed the world through small-scale farming 🥬 Feeding the World as if People Mattered: How Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields by @drflachsophone.bsky.social Review by Owen McNamara

How to feed the world through small-scale farming - LSE Review of Books

Feeding the World as if People Mattered by Andrew Flachs critiques the capitalist global food system, calling for ethical, sustainable, small-scale farming.

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25% of food is lost in supply chains before it can reach consumers. Clearly, something is wrong with the dominant model of agricultural production. Feeding the World as if People Mattered by @drflachsophone.bsky.social calls for an alternative: small-scale farming @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

How to feed the world through small-scale farming - LSE Review of Books

Feeding the World as if People Mattered by Andrew Flachs critiques the capitalist global food system, calling for ethical, sustainable, small-scale farming.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

The convicted Bosnian Serb genocidaire Ratko Mladic has died in a prison cell. He has died in a prison cell, while despite all of his murderous efforts little Bosniak girls and little Bosniak boys are again being born all across Bosnia and Herzegovina. You lost, Ratko.

Federal judge sides with UFW, finds Trump admin wage cuts for seasonal farmworkers unlawful 1/

Here’s to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally

Here's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.

Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy.

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“Feeding the World as if People Mattered offers a paradigmatic shift in the way that farming should be understood and assessed, treating reproduction rather than production as the end goal of farming systems.”

LSE Review of Books@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: How to feed the world through small-scale farming 🥬 Feeding the World as if People Mattered: How Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields by @drflachsophone.bsky.social Review by Owen McNamara

Very proud of this piece, and of our writing team

Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really cool new commentary about the “scam” under digital capitalism @ctwittekind.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @jmigozzi.bsky.social @jovannarosen.bsky.social @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Taking the right lessons from small farm systems - book excerpt ->resilience | More on "Small farms and food justice" at BigEarthData.ai

Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Taking the right lessons from small farm systems - book excerpt

Amid plantation monocultures and industrialized farms built to maximize production at the expense of these social and ecological public costs, there are also many communities where economy and ecology are not in conflict. On small farms in India, Bosnia, and the USA that I profile in Feeding the world as if People Mattered, they are complementary elements of the same force. All embrace ecological diversity as the best path to keep the farm. Farming is a means to build institutions, create life-giving spaces, and identify the value of care work. In focusing on how small farms can provide space for solidarity amid rising temperatures, fascism, and inequality, smallholding farming has a radical potential for connection, mutual aid, and social reproduction in the twenty-first century. In lieu of technical fixes that these farms might offer to solve the problems of the world, I offer a few broad lessons. Lesson one from Araku, India: Farming is a way to keep families on their land. “Our initial focus was really on education and development,” explained Prandeep, a field officer for an organic coffee program. We were drinking Araku coffee in his office as his team explained the kind of work they were doing...

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"Across three very different sorts of farms with three very different regional histories, public infrastructure is critical to distribute food and pay for lots of different sorts of farmwork...Imagine what smallholders could do on a level playing field." www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Taking the right lessons from small farm systems – book excerpt

Amid plantation monocultures and industrialized farms built to maximize production at the expense of public social and ecological costs, there are also many communities where the economy and ecology a...

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More proof that we are always stronger together: community supported radio talking about community supported farms to feed the world as if people mattered

A Public Affair@apublicaffair.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎙️Our guest @drflachsophone.bsky.social says small-scale diversified farming is more important than ever. He joins us to talk about how to get to a world where small farms matter. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/small-divers...

“Business as usual is the most efficient if we make no changes to business as usual” strikes me as circular logic that is not interested in fundamentally changing the food system royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

The environmental cost of welfare-driven policy changes in UK egg production

Abstract. Public concern over animal welfare in intensive farming systems such as egg production is rising. Meeting future demand for eggs presents both we

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More good discussion around why the food system needs to change and the role of small, "unproductive" farms in it with Green Street Radio kpfa.org/episode/gree...

Fixing a Broken Food System - with Dr. Andrew Flachs | KPFA

Dr. Andrew Flachs talks about our worldwide food system, how small farms actually provide a model for how to fix our broken system.

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whoo hoo! just sent off the ms for the 4th edn of my book Food (Polity press) - major effort plus new chapter on digitalization... keep an eye out for it in 2027! Major thanks to all those who helped me along the way w/ this and previous editions !! ❤️ Curious about what the new cover will look like!

Jevons paradox: 1 (superficial) the resource use increases; but also 2 (structural) the need to use the resource becomes more important to the function of the society for business as usual

Jason Hickel@jasonhickel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I predicted that even if their AI found ways to improve efficiency, Google's energy use would go up, not down. Seven years later and this is where we're at:

Corn is knee high by the 4th of July, and the pesticide is flying here in the Midwest - right on track with a global doubling of pesticide use since 1990 that exposes 490 million kids to agrochemicals www.unicef.org/reports/unde...

Underestimated and Overlooked

The Silent Impact of Pesticides on Children

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📖 New book! "Feeding the World as If People Mattered" challenges the idea that agriculture is only about yields, showing how small farms sustain economies, ecologies, and livelihoods 👨‍🌾. by Andrew Flachs #AgrarianStudies uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding...

Feeding the World as if People Mattered | UAPress

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Teachers!! A holistic textbook on food, culture, and power is coming spring in 27. If your course covers domestication and the origins of agriculture; food, farming, and capital in the global economy; and the many alternative ways to get a just dessert, take a look www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-cult...

“Reproduction is not only a process of making groups of people who do things in the world. It is also a process of making the world itself. “

Resilience@resilience.org · 4mo ago

“When a rural American community loses its farms to consolidation, when the jobs go and the schools close, people don’t just give up. They find ways to sustain each other outside the formal economy." Read the Q&A with "Feeding the World as If People Mattered” author Andrew Flachs. ⬇️

Small Farms Can Be Measured Through Their Resilience

Andrew Flachs on how small farms sustain life in ways that Big Ag cannot.

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“Asking if the world grows enough food is the wrong kind of question. It leads to the wrong kind of answer. We don’t need to produce more food. We need to produce more farms: places where communities of living beings can thrive.” @resilience.org www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Feeding the world as if people mattered: How small farms produce value beyond yields

Asking if the world grows enough food is the wrong kind of question. It leads to the wrong kind of answer. We don’t need to produce more food. We need to produce more farms: places where communities o...

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