Farm to Table: More Helpful Links and Articles
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Grassroots International did a global survey of what people in different parts of the world think about food.
Cultural Survival invites you to learn something about the traditional diets of indigenous communities—Native Americans in this case. A story from the International Relations Center outlines the importance of small farmers. A helpful fact sheet from Sustainable Table offers reasons to eat sustainable food. For some additional research and reports on buying local, see the site for Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA). Among other initiatives, Winrock International works on sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. To help farmers capture a larger market share, ACDI/VOCA trains them to master crop-specific technical skills, acquire market knowledge, and approach farming as a business. For a teachers guide on teaching children about their ecological footprints related to food consumption, see this link at the Education for Sustainable Development site. A 15 minute DVD called “The True Cost of Food,” and discussion guide, is available from the Sierra Club. The November/December 2006 issue of Sierra magazine, produced by the Sierra Club, features “Green Cuisine” and has a range of articles on innovative community farms, unraveling the secrets of the supermarket, truth in labeling, and more. Sustainable agriculture is at the center of the Rainforest Alliance’s efforts to conserve ecosystems by protecting healthy soils, rivers and wildlife and by promoting dignified living conditions for farm workers and neighboring rural communities. In the U.S., the Community Food Security Coalition seeks to “develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based.”  PERSPECTIVES HOME: Farm to Table
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