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Academic articles

Beyond growth in food systems: Cultivating seeds of change

Introduction to the Special Issue on Post-growth food systems for a just social-ecological transition within Planetary Boundaries

22
Dec

Green gold for the "future": Fermented foodways, possibilities and doubts

By: Ankita Dutta

9
Dec

The milpa's Maya Ixil caretakers, multispecies biocultural diversity conservation, and designs for more-than-human abundance

By: Gina D'Alesandro

8
Nov

From peasant women to social change: The politicization of identities and materialities toward socio-ecological transformations

By: Mariana Calcagni G

19
Sep

City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future

By: Taylor Steelman

Activist contributions

13 / August / 2024

A political ecology of San Cristobal Island: mapping local environmental knowledge and justice in Galapagos, Ecuador

By:Brecken Butterfield , Lauren Clement, Laurette Compass, Djuna Day-Booth, Victoria Jeffreys, Carmen Marshall, Elliot Miller, Clara Smartt, Natalie Smith, Emilie Dupuits [1]

21 / March / 2023

Retos y oportunidades de la pequeña minería de oro en la Amazonía colombiana – entrevista con Enrique Castro

By:Enrique Castro [1], Paula Andrea Sánchez García [2], Barbara Schröter [3]

7 / April / 2023

Cartografías de la esperanza: la colmena cimarrona de Vieques, Puerto Rico frente a las múltiples crisis

By:Larissa González Nieves y Katherine Martínez Medina

Visual essay

Chop it like it’s hot: community composting for a post-growth society

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 […]

How colonialism disrupted and continues to disrupt people’s relationship with plants

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.

Identidad, tradición oral y cosmovisión basada en el ecosistema en Perú: reflexiones estéticas desde el surrealismo

ABSTRACT Reconociendo la riqueza de la tradicional oral Peruana y su interrelación con la biodiversidad, se realizan en diferentes regiones del Perú actividades culturales para su preservación. Se promueven expresiones artísticas mediante ferias como la Ruraq Maky, una feria que acoge artesanos y el arte popular de varias regiones del Perú. Otro ejemplo de cultura […]

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The artwork on our home page is by Angie Vanessita, an Ecuadorian artist whose art is inspired by the work of indigenous, afrodescendent, campesino and rural communities who defend their territories against the advance of capitalist extractivism. To discover more of her art we invite you to visit her website. We chose her piece Noche […]