Food sovereignty, biopiracy

July 10 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals supported a decision by the Patent and Trademark Office which has positive impacts for Latin American Farmers. This is an interesting story and one which goes to the heart of biopiracy, food sovereignty and the problems inherent in treating everything as a commodity to be “owned” [...]

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Exchange, Informal Economies and Poverty – Preliminary Thoughts

Alternative economic configurations have been, much to my surprise, occupying a large part of my thinking of late. I’m trying to weave some sort of sensible fabric out of the chaos of experience I’ve come to call my life and I keep returning to the fundamental nature of economics.
I am, by no means, talking about [...]

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Weaving, fair trade and possibilities

Back to the states after 10 days in Nicaragua. And now to process the experience, think through some of the ideas stirred up by what I saw and felt. Where to begin and how to order what, for now, is a disorganized mass of concepts, ideas and desires?
And so here I am, with fond hopes [...]

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