The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the risks of an unhealthy diet and the extreme fragility of food systems. The economic reconstruction that will follow the pandemic is the perfect opportunity to provide better nutrition and health to all. The pandemic should spur us to redefine how we feed ourselves, and agricultural research can play a vital role in making our[Read More…]
“In these times of ever more blatant marketing of public space, the aspiration to plant potatoes precisely there – and without restricting entry – is nothing less than revolutionary,” writes Sabine Rohlf in her book review of Urban Gardening.1 Indeed, we can observe the return of gardens to the city everywhere and see it as an expression of a changing relationship[Read More…]
Cuba has come a long way since the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the loss of imports crucial for the island nation’s industrial agriculture system—such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers—left Cuba with a severe food crisis in the 1990s. Today, Cuba has become a regional leader in sustainable agricultural research. Within its practices and institutions lies a model for[Read More…]
There’s a good reason (actually, 30 good reasons covered here, plus at least 90 others to be discussed in later issues) why no-one has been able to come up with a better term for what’s called “urban agriculture.”
It’s been three years now of food shortages, inflation, and queues in Venezuela, and the millions of people involved in community and movement organizing have been the most affected. But they’ve also defied right-wing and general expectations, and even perhaps the expectations of the Maduro government, and have become stronger and better organized as a result of the hardships. ‘We can[Read More…]
Urban farming has gained momentum in recent years as a result of increased awareness of environmental issues and the desire to feed people living in cities sustainably. For Cuba in the 1990s, however,the shift to an urban agricultural economy was a matter of life or death. The Plaza de la Revolución is supposed to embody the spirit of revolutionary Cuba.[Read More…]
Commemorating the birth centenary of late Professor Randhir Singh 
“Where is India Going?” Ambassador KP Fabian’s Take 
Telengana Armed Struggle Hero Bandru Narsimhulu Dies At 106 
In The Trail Of Conspiracy 
Ukraine Crisis Demands Diplomacy and De-escalation, Not More Weaponry 
The Doomsday Clock SOS 
Let’s Not Allow the Great Powers to Destroy the World 
Why It’s Time to Take the Russian-Led Military Alliance Seriously 
Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors 
‘Abide With Me’ will Stay Forever! 
Eelam struggle for freedom after Vaddukoddai resolution 
Helping families of child workers during Corona 
Resisting Injustice With Non-Violence—Mahatma Gandhi’s Message Remains Very Relevant Today 
Warnings From The Poles 
How The Pendency In Indian Courts Can Be Lowered 
The Great Disconnect…Part I 
The West co-opts the Taliban 
US Doesn’t Care for China’s Muslims: Boycotting the Olympics is about Global Competition 
Why Is Muhammad Ali the Last American Hero? Who Else Is There? 
The Imperialists’ and Proxies’ War against Syria 
All Of Us Remain Hostages to the Military-Industrial Complex 
Rajasthan NGO contributes to improving vaccination rates 
Faces of Inequality: Stories of the poor and underprivileged from India’s grassroots 
Serbia Stomps on Rio Tinto’s Lithium Mining Project 
Zionist-subverted America: Jewish Zionists Are One Third Of The Biden Cabinet 
The Geopolitics Behind Spiraling Gas and Electricity Prices in Europe 
Why Did Geetoshree Sandhya Mukherjee Decline The “Shree” Award? 
Islam, Gender Justice and Role of Darul Qaza: Critical Analysis 
Stay United Against State Repression 
Providing Facilities To Tamils: Presidents’ new Panacea to solve their 72 years of Ethnic Problems 
We Must All Recognize That a War Over Ukraine Is Not the Answer 
Bathed in Pesticides: the Narrative of Deception 
Operation Samadhan – Prahar a genocidal military policy to break the people’s democratic resistance against corporate loot! 
Thoughts on Genocide and our Planet 
Off to the Supreme Court: Assange’s Appeal Continues 
A New Perspective on the Department of Homeland Security 
Lok Morcha Punjab calls on building revolutionary Alternative and place no faith in Ruling class Parties 
Fables And Fantasies 
Communalism has overtaken the Constitution! 
Drug mafia & role of private ports 
Binu Mathew, the editor of Countercurrents.org and the editorial team have been working selflessly with minimal funds and accepting no advertisements. Besides CC abhors foreign institutional funding, corporate funding or government aid. It has been in existence for about two decades and standing on the side of the people and taking an anti-establishment stance. To that extent it is like[Read More…]
