There's a really delightful little essay over at Salon about the trials and tribulations of someone trying to make a living as a small scale farmer. Her point being that despite the vast amounts of ...

a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries). Informal: an ...

I find the folks over at Counterpunch snarling at me because I said that it would be a good idea if those peasant farmers out there went bust and therefore went off to do something more productive. I ...

Rising food prices — as the USDA has forecast for 2022 — may seem like a good thing for farmers. After all, who wouldn’t like to see some more cash? Farmers, like everyone else, have been through a ...

It's a long-held view in conservation circles that rural peasant activities are at odds with efforts to preserve biodiversity in the tropics. In fact, the opposite is often true, argue University of ...

A new UN Declaration protects peasant rights to land, seeds, and adequate incomes with an emphasis on civil and social rights. Peasants, which includes small-scale farmers, rural workers, fishing ...

It appears Kenya might achieve a first in the World as a country where peasant farming is prohibited. The recent flood of proposals by government agencies tasked with policy development in the ...