Food systems must undergo radical changes for a post-growth world. This transformation cannot solely focus on agricultural production; it requires a concomitant shift of food waste systems. One movement currently spurring transformation in food waste is community composting. In this visual essay, we provide an overview of community composting in the U.S., zooming into a […]

Our graphic grew out of a project called ‘Decolonising food for health and sustainability' in Johannesburg, South Africa. The project recognised that being able to grow the indigenous plants that people traditionally used for food and medicine could help communities to enjoy greater food sovereignty and more control over their own health. The graphic seeks to tell the complex story of the historical and ongoing negative impacts of colonialism in a simple and powerful way. The accompanying text explains some of the ways colonialism disrupted Indigenous people’s relationship with plants, and how these processes and power relations continue to underpin South Africa’s unhealthy and unsustainable food system.

Ways of living and knowing: being a foreign student in San Cristobal Island In the Anthropocene, islands are often seen as highly vulnerable places facing climate change impacts, especially sea level rise and natural disasters. However, a growing literature aims to transform our perception of islands through the lenses of ‘more-than-wet’ ontologies (Peters and Steinberg, […]

Peasant communities in the Intag river valley in Ecuador have been resisting large-scale mining for decades and, thus, have built up a local solidary economy as a livelihood alternative.