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Agroecology is steadily growing, but the motivations for this vary. Activists and some politicians want to reduce climate change, while rural towns want to protect and preserve local landscape. For farmers, the major underlying motivation is often autonomy.

Vi har mistet evnen til å godta at kjøtt alltid kommer fra et levende dyr som har blitt drept.

To reach our climate goals, we need more sustainable protein sources. What if we replaced meat with insects?

(This is the third instalment in a series on alternative proteins. Read the introductory article here.)

With increasingly more people living and growing up in urban environments, their connection to land, farming and rural food production risks becoming weaker and more fragmented. I am one of those people who grew up knowing very little of where my food came from and who produced it. This summer, spurred by the idea of sustainability in the local, I decided to find out: What does life look like for small-scale farmers where I am from?

Increasingly meat-like substitute products blur the lines between animals and plants in consumers' diets. Will meat be made of plants in the future?

(This is the second installment in a series on alternative proteins. Read the introductory article here.)

In all the talk of decarbonizing society and meeting climate goals, we cannot forget to include our food. Despite Vandana Shiva shedding light on this issue in 2008 with her book Soil not Oil, our food system remains drenched in fossil fuels.

Proponents of alternative proteins have predicted that, in a few decades, most ‘meat’ won’t come from animal sources. Can plants, insects, and lab-grown meat replace conventional animal protein in our diets?

Den norske kjøttbransjen jobber iherdig for at forbrukerne skal stole på dem. Men det bør forbrukerne slutte å gjøre.

Today’s globalized food production systems have created a disconnect between people and the food we consume. What happens when we participate in food production ourselves?

I India har det å få nok mat blitt en rettighet, og staten deler ut matrasjoner i innsatsen mot sult. Men migrantene som jobber i Indias storbyer får ofte ikke tilgang på sine rasjoner.

Vet du hvor mye arbeid som ligger bak en kopp kaffe?

Vietnamesisk matkultur er kjend for sin bruk av urter og grønsaker. Så kvifor aukar kjøtforbruket i Vietnam i eit forbløffande tempo?

Den gule høytiden står for døren. Hvorfor ikke gripe anledningen til å utøve forbrukermakt med plomme og hvite?

Medan vietnamesisk mat blir stadig meir populær verda rundt, har Vietnam hamna i ei matkrise.

Being part of a food cooperative connects people in the city to farmers - and to the food system.

Oslo has become a global hub for speciality coffee. Have you tried third wave coffee?

Den indiske kua er i dag politisert som aldri før i landets postkoloniale historie. Og det sier ikke så reint lite: kua har lenge figurert som et sentralt politisk symbol i landet.

Flere nordmenn sier de er villige til å spise mindre kjøtt, men kjøttforbruket øker stadig.

- Kan du ete innvollar?

Men TINEs kampanje speiler ikke dagens samfunn, og heller ikke fortiden ettersom Norge aldri har hatt melkemenn.