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Agroecologisation
What would it mean to agroecologise socio-ecological relations at a time of climate breakdown, war and genocide? How does agroecology stop this…
 • Alex Heffron
Towards an agroecological theory of change
Small, privately-owned farms and localised markets can never achieve agroecology, therefore the movement needs a new strategy.
 • Alex Heffron
'You can't eat electricity' (new co-authored article for The Conversation)
Looking at how Reform and the far right are trying to leverage rural resentment against solar farms as a a rural wedge issue and as a way to serve the…
 • Alex Heffron
What does an anti-fascist farming movement look like? (article for new Seeding Reparations booklet)
The threat of fascism is growing in the UK and food and farming are becoming battlegrounds. What can we do?
 • Alex Heffron
Democratic Supermarketism
Food processors and retailers hoard profits and power in the food and farming system. Across the world a challenge to this supermarket dominance is…
 • Alex Heffron
Blood, Soil and Jeremy Clarkson (for Vittles)
In this article for Vittles I explore Jeremy Clarkson, Reform, the farmers’ protests, the far right, conspiracy theory and the need for directly…
 • Alex Heffron
Food security, food sovereignty — tomayto, tomahto?
This article explores the difference between food sovereignty and food security and why it matters
 • Alex Heffron
The Struggle for Land
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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