Food

Solidaristic principles prove great in theory, but how do they hold up in practice? Specifically, in communities facing historical divestment and disenfranchisement, can mutualism and cooperativism serve as building blocks for crafting more equitable, sustainable economies and societies? 

Founded in 2010, SCF is run as a community benefit society, a type of co-operative, whereby the farm business is owned by roughly 400 members of the public and counting.

In the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, getting out in a canoe to harvest manoomin, or wild rice (Zizania palustris), is a political assertion of indigenous food sovereignty for Anishinaabe people.

Reflections on the documentary film FOOD COOP, and the discussion panel that GEO held to talk about the film and the food co-op world.

On today's show, we learn about the potential of housing cooperatives with Anne Reynolds, former Director of UW Center for Cooperatives.

A Venezuelan cooperative network that recently received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” tells its story.

A conversation about the film FOOD COOP with the filmmaker, Tom Boothe, and a panel of food co-op experts.

The message conveyed by the film Food Coop, from the perspective of the metaphors used by the members of the PSFC to describe their experience of the organization, is one of complexity.

GEO is hosting a 3 day on-line screening of the documentary FOOD COOP, as well as a panel discussion of the film.

How five Latin American producer cooperatives of high-value food products have overcome the hurdles to integration with the international market for their member farmers.