Arty Mangan, Author at Bioneers
Food and Farming
Real Organic: An Interview with Linley Dixon, Co-Director, Real Organic Project
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Linley Dixon, Co-Director of The Real Organic Project, studied soil science in college and worked at the USDA on plant-fungal interactions while...

Food and Farming
The Fascinating World of Microbes in the Human and Soil Microbiomes
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Image licensed by Creative Commons  Decades ago, prior to the Human Microbiome Project, the brilliant, iconoclastic, eco-farmer, Bob...

Food and Farming
Chocolate Rebellion: Elevating Historically Oppressed Cacao Farmers and Their Communities
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This article was written by Gillian Goddard. Gillian grew up in the Caribbean Island of Trinidad at a time when many local cacao plantations had...

Food and Farming
Investing in the Sustainability of Cacao Farmers to Make Distinctive Chocolate
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The global chocolate commodity market is tarnished by a history of exploitation of cacao farmers and laborers that persists to this day. The TCHO...

Food and Farming
The Social and Political Aspects of Agroecology: An Interview with Miguel Altieri
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Miguel Altieri describes agroecology as a dialogue of wisdoms between Traditional Ecological Knowledge that has stood the test of time, and modern...

Food and Farming
Regenerative Landscaper: An Interview with Permaculture Designer Erik Ohlsen
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Erik Ohlsen is a master of regenerative design, an internationally recognized Permaculture teacher, a landscape contractor, author, farmer,...

Food and Farming
From Soil to Soul
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From Soil to Soul: Young Filmmakers Explore the Local Food Sovereignty Movement Through the powerful stories of Black, Indigenous, and People of...

Food and Farming
How to Become a Land Doctor: An Interview with Rangeland Conservation Expert Wendell Gilgert
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Photo by William Milliot Creating conditions for livestock to be a climate benefit rather than a net emitter of greenhouse gas emissions is a...

Food and Farming
Tackling Student Hunger: An Interview with Francis Ge of the Basic Needs Program at UC Santa Cruz 
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Alarming numbers of college students, even at some of the most prestigious universities across the country, struggle financially, affecting their...

Food and Farming
The Dark Secret of Student Hunger: An Interview of Tim Galarneau of the University of California
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For students from low income or marginalized communities entering college (often the first in their family to do so) can be a source of pride and...

Women's Leadership
A Young Artist-Activist Works for Equity in the Food System
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Minkah Taharkah is an artist, poet, farmer, and organizer. While a student at UC Berkeley, she co-founded Black Earth Farms based on her desire to...

Food and Farming
Biochar: An Ancient Method of Healing Modern Soils
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Amazonia is the largest river basin in the world, covering an area greater than Europe. More than 3 million species live in the Amazon rainforest,...

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