The Struggle for Land

What would it mean if movements for agroecology and food sovereignty repossessed the land that was taken away from all of us?

May 4 • Alex Heffron

Industrial agriculture is not the enemy

Thinking once more on the distinction between strategy and tactics, exchange value and use value, in agroecology and food sovereignty

May 3 • Alex Heffron

Famines of the capitalist economy

Every year it's taken for granted that billions of people should remain undernourished – it's beyond time to question the fundamental cause of that…

Apr 26 • Alex Heffron

A belly full of natural gas and other fictions of self-sufficiency

Does a greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes bathing in the warmth of natural gas and fed a diet of fertilisers really represent food security and…

Apr 2 • Alex Heffron

Is the UK really 60% self-sufficient in food?

On the myths of self-sufficiency, localism and nationalism, and why it matters for the project of food sovereignty at a time of global eco-apartheid

Mar 21 • Alex Heffron

Are all farmers struggling?

Getting beyond flattened narratives that imagines all farmers across the world exploited by agribusiness and processors/retailers, and instead looking…

Feb 28 • Alex Heffron

Are farmers a class?

What do we mean when we say farmer if we analyse it through the lens of class?

Feb 26 • Alex Heffron

Socialisation and occupation (or liberal vs revolutionary theories of agroecologisation)

Forwarding a revolutionary theory of change for agroecology against the dead-end of the liberal conception of the political economy

Jan 24 • Alex Heffron

The Struggle for Land

A blog where I think out loud whilst I pursue my research looking at land use, agricultural transitions and ecological crisis. I am a farmer's husband in Wales and a PhD researcher at Lancaster University.

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