Resources
Since we are the custodians of a beautiful, life-giving planet, we need to organize our economy to align resources with our common needs to care for home and for one another.
Our health and the health of the planet are inextricably linked.
Headwaters Bill Quick Start Guide
Provides the resources to get up to speed on the Headwaters Community Food & Water Bill quickly and easily.
Learning from the Leaders
In urban and rural communities a patchwork of local food initiatives is responding to the absence of a just, sustainable food economy and enduring food insecurity. Now is the time to support this leadership.
Stories from the Homefront 2030
A newsletter from the future relating how things are in 2030 after the passage of the Headwaters Community Food & Water Bill.Introduction to the Headwaters Bill
Brief explanation of the rationale driving the development of the Headwaters Community Food and Water Bill.Handy Headwaters Facts
A handy reference sheet of facts about the Headwaters Community Food and Water Bill.Community Care Programs
From source to table connecting urban and rural communities by a regenerative food web designed to meet the demands of food water and climate.Economic Resiliency Program
From source to table anchoring every community with a regenerative food web economy to meet the demands of climate, food, and water.Comprehensive Planning Goals
Set of goals for developing local government policies that promote climate readiness. (Print version)Neighborhood Commons
A Neighborhood Commons (NC) is is like a public library for food –a resource available for people of all ages to participate in an economy designed to sustain life, depend on healthy ecosystems, and capture carbon. In the food web economy, the NC is a key delivery sites for food sources.Food Web Maps
Here's how a Neighborhood Commons might fit in to the larger food sourcing/production/distribution network.Regenerative Food Web Map
Diagram showing how all local sources of food can be gathered and distributed or preserved.Industrial Chain Food Production Map
Diagram showing how the current industrial food production system chains its targets and makes them dependents.Creating Publicly Funded Locally-Adapted Farming
The food web economy is designed to generate more local food. To achieve this, we need food producers to identify the tools they need to build their capacity. This outlines six areas which must be addressed to ensure that farming is set upon a truly sustainable path.Food Design Economy
A holistic design for effective locally-adapted food economy-sourcing, preserving and delivery.Resources from Other Organizations
Nourish by MN350 Podcast
The podcast features visionary leaders who are creating the regenerative, inclusive, local food economy we need to meet the challenge of climate change.Here’s How America Uses Its Land
This set of maps from Bloomberg reveals land use in the 48 contiguous states, including the percentage of land used for industrial agriculture (crops, crops produced for animal feed and animal grazing.)The Seed Saver
Diverse varieties of locally adapted seeds are key to our food security. The Seed Saver is a short film that reveals the story of one farmer’s leadership initiative to plant and save varieties of ancient heritage breeds from Asia.Agrarian Commons
Creating the economic and ecological conditions needed to generate local capacity to source food is crucial to our food security. Access to land is vital for emerging farmers. The Agrarian Commons provides a practical tool for establishing successful collaborative food systems designed for sustainable living.ETC Group works to address the socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies that could have an impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We investigate ecological erosion (including the erosion of cultures and human rights); the development of new technologies (especially agricultural but also other technologies that work with genomics and matter); and we monitor global governance issues including corporate concentration and trade in technologies. We operate at the global political level. We work closely with partner civil society organizations (CSOs) and social movements, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Who Will Feed Us?
An analysis by the ETC Group of where and how we get our food – evaluating the operations, contributions and impacts of Peasant Food Web with the Industrial Food Chain and a set of recommendations for creating a resilient system to meet the demands of food, water and climate.
Model for Regenerative Farming
Article published in Moses Organic newsletter describing the regenerative farming system that has been established in Northfield, MN.
The international Nyéléni newsletter is the voice of the international movement for Food Sovereignty. Its main goal is to strengthen the grassroots of the movement, by providing accessible material on key issues and creating a space - for individuals and organisations involved in the struggle - to exchange their experiences and share information.
GRAIN’s central focus is to support social movements across the world in their resistance to the growing corporate control over food production, markets and trade. We undertake research on how corporations – including agribusiness, large retail and the finance industry – displace millions of small-scale food producers and how trade and investment deals impose the legal conditions for it.
Apart from our information work, we also support the efforts of partners and peoples’ movements to improve strategies, cooperation and popular action to challenge corporate power, and build capacity with them to achieve this.
The climate crisis and the food crisis are intimately linked, with the industrial food system - from farm to supermarket - largely responsible for both. Under this program area, GRAIN draws attention to the responsibility of industrial agriculture and centralized supply chains in causing the climate crisis, and how food sovereignty and peasant-led agroecology offer a tremendous potential to solve a good part of it.
We do so through sustained information and outreach activities, and through active strategy development and coalition building with the social movements involved.
This site was originally set up by GRAIN as a collection of online materials used in the research behind Seized: The 2008 land grab for food and financial security, a report we issued in October 2008. GRAIN is small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for food sovereignty. We see the current land grab trend as a serious threat to local communities, for reasons outlined in our initial report.
La Via Campesina is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. Built on a strong sense of unity, solidarity between these groups, it defends peasant agriculture for food sovereignty as a way to promote social justice and dignity and strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture that destroys social relations and nature.
Women produce 70% of the food on earth but are marginalized and oppressed by neoliberalism and patriarchy. They play a crucial role in La Via Campesina. The movement defends women’s rights and gender equality and struggles against all forms of violence against women.
Young farmers, committed to the historical struggle for the liberation of our peoples and the transformation of our reality, are an inspiring force in the movement. They contribute to advancing Food Sovereignty globally.
La Via Campesina comprises 182 local and national organisations in 81 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Altogether it represents about 200 million farmers. It is an autonomous, pluralist, multicultural movement, political in its demand for social justice while being independent from any political party, economic or other type of affiliation.
Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
Our treaties made with tribal nations are key to managing the vitality and health of ecosystems. This website provides information we need to understand about our treaties. The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is commonly known by its acronym, GLIFWC. Formed in 1984, GLIFWC represents eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan who reserved hunting, fishing and gathering rights in the 1837, 1842, and 1854 treaties with the United States government. GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of treaty rights during well-regulated, off-reservation seasons throughout the treaty ceded territories.US Food Sovereignty Alliance
Locally adapted seed and plant diversity is a crucial to our food security. The US Food Sovereignty Alliance published a report about the state of seed in the United States. USFSA Seed Survey Report.Gates 'failing green revolution in Africa'
Ecologist article highlights the fact that the green revolution is locking African farmers into a system that is not designed for their benefit, but for Northern multinational corporations.Creating New Food Systems
We can take heart. The Finland Food Chain is creating a thriving local food system designed to benefit the communities of northeastern Minnesota. This initiative reveals the promise of locally adapted food economies designed to depend on healthy ecosystems.