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Nathan Nelson

Nathan Nelson

@nathannelson.co.uk

Land | Food | Nature | People

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Can crisis be the catalyst we need to fix our food system?

Over 180 organisations, academics, farmers and community food leaders have written an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham voicing the concern that "the UK is complacent and unprepared for the food emergencies we know are coming". The letter demands a range of actions from the inclusion of food in the National Risk Register to...

Master’s, academic publishers, beer, adverts

I submitted my dissertation a day early. No late nights before the deadline, no last-minute rush, no panic. I used to pride myself on quoting Douglas Adams, with his deadlines making a whooshing sound as they fly by, but in the end I was relaxed and ahead of time. So uncool. My past self doesn't...

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The importance of food

The great press baron, Lord Northcliffe, used to tell his journalists that four subjects could be relied upon for abiding public interest: crime, love, money, and food. Only the last of these is fundamental and universal. Crime is a minority interest, even in the worst-regulated societies. It is possible to imagine an economy without money...

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Make your Gmail more private

Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you're looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail,...

Groundswell and the rhetorical ecology of farming and food

Thoughts on farming, food systems and rhetorical ecology prompted by a documentary film trailer I didn't much like. #FoodStudies #agriculture #ecology #agroecology #systems

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Connected to the ATmosphere

My social media hangout of choice is Bluesky - now, this website talks to it. I think. WordPress have released an ATmosphere plugin allowing me to post directly to Bluesky from here, and maybe even suck comments back in, using the protocol Bluesky is built on. I, er, think that's good?

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A (very brief) history of agriculture

This was a piece of course work from my Skills Bootcamp in Regenerative Land-Based Studies at the Apricot Centre earlier this year. It's an attempt to map out a history of agriculture. It will have missed a very great deal, but I focussed on pivotal events and technological developments that drove population change. Comments welcome....

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