This is an excellent overview piece by Lappé about the myths of the industrial food system and the promises of agroecology. Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now by Frances Moore Lappé. Read Article Here.
Lappé is the co-founder of Food First (the Institute for Food and Development Policy), and the Small Planet Institute. She is the author of eighteen books, including the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet and, most recently, World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored with Joseph Collins.
GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems
