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.
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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.)