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4 days ago | 
jacobin.com | Benjamin Selwyn
Socialist arguments that cooperation and collective action represent the basis of a better society are often dismissed by supporters of capitalism. “Human nature,” so the argument goes, is inherently self-seeking. The so-called “free-rider problem” purports to prove that large-scale cooperation is unsustainable because individuals seek to benefit from the collective action of others while minimizing their own contribution.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Benjamin Selwyn
The UK’s food system was described as broken in a recent parliamentary report – and it’s not hard to see why. High living costs, a health crisis of diet-related chronic disease, farmers’ incomes squeezed and low pay across the agricultural sector all play their parts. And these elements are underpinned by an environmentally destructive mode of – the longer the livestock-intensive system prevails, the greater the environmental, economic and social costs.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | Benjamin Selwyn
For American defenders of economic liberalism and free markets, China’s rise has been deeply disorientating. Unmoved by concerns about the market distorting effects of picking winners, the Communist Party of China has engaged in a focused campaign of industrial policy, using the state to discipline firms that have gone on to become globally competitive.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
salon.com | Benjamin Selwyn
Subsidised community restaurants could serve seasonal dishes made with locally grown plant-based food, produced on farms that encourage wildlife through widespread tree cultivation, the use of cover-crops, and improvements to soil health. A mass roll-out of such restaurants could help tackle the UK's food poverty and malnutrition, while also increasing agriculture's resilience to climate breakdown and raising farmers' incomes.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
phys.org | Benjamin Selwyn
The UK's food system is fundamentally broken. As a researcher of the global agricultural system, I believe drastic, bold change is needed—and that community restaurants are an important model to consider.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Benjamin Selwyn
The UK’s food system is fundamentally broken. As a researcher of the global agricultural system, I believe drastic, bold change is needed – and that community restaurants are an important model to consider. Subsidised community restaurants could serve seasonal dishes made with locally grown plant-based food, produced on farms that encourage wildlife through widespread tree cultivation, the use of cover-crops, and improvements to soil health.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
monthlyreview.org | Benjamin Selwyn |Charis Davis
is a professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Struggle for Development (2017), The Global Development Crisis (2014), and Workers, State and Development in Brazil (2012). is a graduate student in Research for International Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. A paradox exists in the United States, United Kingdom, and other rich countries.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
publico.pt | Benjamin Selwyn
“Vota por um planeta mais verde, por menos despesas com alimentação, mais saúde e por bondade para com os animais. E nem tens de esperar pelas eleições”, afirma a campanha global do Veganuary, que incentiva as pessoas a comer menos carne durante o mês de Janeiro. Transformar o sistema alimentar mundial através da redução de produção de carne a larga escala é essencial se quisermos preservar os ecossistemas naturais do planeta.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
salon.com | Benjamin Selwyn
"Cast a vote for a greener planet, lower food bills, better health and kindness to animals. And you don't even have to wait for a general election," states the global Veganuary campaign that encourages people to eat plant-based throughout January. Transforming the world's food system through large-scale reduction in meat production is essential if we are to preserve the planet's natural ecosystems. But I don't believe Veganuary's solution is the way to do that.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Benjamin Selwyn
“Cast a vote for a greener planet, lower food bills, better health and kindness to animals. And you don’t even have to wait for a general election,” states the global Veganuary campaign that encourages people to eat plant-based throughout January. Transforming the world’s food system through large-scale reduction in meat production is essential if we are to preserve the planet’s natural ecosystems. But I don’t believe Veganuary’s solution is the way to do that.
