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The SOIL ALLIANCE hub project was launched this year to foster a radical perspective on food and fibre production and consumption. 'Soil Alliance seeks to promote an ongoing dialogue between rural and urban based workers of the soil as well as among those who consume the food and fibre the soil produces. It hopes to provide news and analysis in order to encourage and facilitate collaboration among farming, ecology, locally grown, food movement and climate change activists.' In the context of the current trend to impose consumption shibboleths on agriculture, the SOIL ALLIANCE tries to capture some of the reality of working the soil in the face of climate change impacts and contemporary capitalism. http://soilalliance.blogspot.com.au/ Recent posts: Millions face drought and famine in Southern Africa... Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool ... Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?... On the Frontline: Climate Change & Rural Communities... Monsanto Losing Millions as Farmers in India Plant indigenous seed.. Diana Rodgers: Meat is Magnificent: Water, Carbon,... Fix farming by junking the corporate model Rural Workers: AUDIO Water under attack : Reports Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science, but Genetic Engineers often are... Hunger in Venezuela? A look beyond the spin Why changing our diet won't save the Earth Nature is neglected in this election campaign The effects on soil biology of agricultural chemicals... Plant varieties: Why are we losing them? Land grabbing – A new colonialism Carbon Sequestration on Land – the Government’s Greenhouse Gas Policy Ruminant livestock and greenhouse gases _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com