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Food security, food sovereignty — tomayto, tomahto?
This article explores the difference between food sovereignty and food security and why it matters
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Alex Heffron
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Winners and losers in the farming sector
Land prices, inheritance tax, professionalisation, entrepreneurialism, and winners and losers.
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Alex Heffron
Farms failing to accumulate
Utilising economic data for English agriculture I explore the failure of English farms to valorise their capital and what this might mean for posing an…
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Alex Heffron
Growing a stronger political ecosystem in agroecology through the vanguard function
Thinking with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' towards a stronger, relational, agroecological political ecosystem that supports its own…
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Alex Heffron
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The UK farmer protests you probably haven't heard about (article for The Conversation)
The grievances of farm workers, who milk cows, drive machinery, and pick crops, are rarely given the spotlight with the talk of farmer protests...
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Alex Heffron
Mending a broken farm
Reflections on nearly 9 years of being on this farm — and thinking with Gargi Bhattacharyya's exploration of being heartbroken — and what that means for…
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Alex Heffron
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Imperialist conservation and 'biodiversity leakage'
Can ecosystem restoration projects in rich, imperialist countries actually lead to a net reduction in global biodiversity? Is the 'environmentalism of…
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The Struggle for Land
The Struggle for Land
A blog where I think out loud whilst I pursue my research looking at land use, agricultural transitions and ecological crisis. I am a farmer in Wales and a PhD student.
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