Resources

"Heightened concerns about global food production are real in that we need to produce enough good quality food for a growing population in deteriorating environmental circumstances.

At Find Your Feet we believe that a 'business as usual' approach to agriculture is not an option. New solutions to new problems are needed and science and technology must play an important role. But we also need alternatives to monocultures and fossil fuels.

We promote agroecology - agricultural systems that more closely mimic natural ecosystems that have served poor farmers for millenia. These resource-conserving approaches reorient attention from single crops to diversified risk-reducing strategies that mitigate the effects of climatic unpredicability and return control to poor farmers." FYF Director, Dr Dan Taylor

The position papers below draw on our in-depth knowledge and experience of what seems to be working best for poor farmers.

• Sustainable Agriculture

• Agricultural Biodiversity

• Agricultural Technology

• GM Crops

• Indigenous Knowledge

• Wetland Farming

Please also visit The Guardian, The Ecologist, The Evening Standard and Pambazuka for articles and comments that Dan has written on Sustainable Agriculture and Agroecology.

Links

If you would like to suggest a suitable link, please contact us to let us know.

FYF's Partner Organisations

Self Help Africa: http://www.selfhelpafrica.com/
The Norwegian Development Fund:www.utviklingsfondet.no

Like-Minded Organisations

GM Freeze Campaign: www.gmfreeze.org
Friends of the Earth: www.foe.co.uk
Fairtrade Foundation: www.fairtrade.org.uk
Bees for Development: www.planbee.org.uk

Food & Farming

Farmers' World Network: www.fwn.org.uk
Farming Solutions: www.farmingsolutions.org
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO): www.fao.org
Organic Living Directory: www.organicliving.ukf.net
Sustain: www.sustainweb.org
UK Food Group: www.ukfg.org.uk

International Development

British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND): www.bond.org.uk
Department for International Development (DFID):www.dfid.gov.uk
Developments magazine: www.developments.org.uk
Experience Development: www.experiencedevelopment.org
Global Eye: www.globaleye.org.uk
Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG): www.itdg.org

Campaigning

Jubilee Debt Campaign: www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk
Jubilee Research: www.jubileeresearch.org
New Economics Foundation: www.neweconomics.org
New Internationalist: www.newint.org
OneWorld: www.oneworld.net
Overseas Development Institute, ODI: www.odi.org.uk
People and Planet: www.peopleandplanet.org
Tools for Self-Reliance: www.tfsr.org
Traidcraft: www.traidcraft.co.uk
Worldaware: www.worldaware.org.uk
World Development Movement: www.wdm.org.uk

Please note that we are not responsible for the content of these sites.