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Insights from the grassroots: Political ecology of Brazilian  environmental justice movements

This paper and a related series of lectures published at the JPE-Grassroots platform present first-hand perspectives of diverse Brazilian environmental justice movements,  including indigenous, quilombola, traditional forest peoples’ and food sovereignty movements. We summarize the key ideas shared in the lectures and systematize contributions as collective innovations for the environmental agenda and the ongoing making of political ecology.

26
May

Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Territorial Development in Brazil

By: Ana Terra and Josiane dos Santos

26
May

Insights from Brazil's Grassroots: Political Ecology in the Making

By: Dr. Laila Sandroni, Dr. Bruno Tarin, and Dr. Erika Larkins

26
May

Indigenous Movements of Southern Bahia, Brazil

By: Juliana Tupinambá

27
May

The Territorial Struggle for the Conservation of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil

By: Dione Torquato

Activist contributions

Visual essay

Seeing agricultural life from spaces of struggle, death and resurgence

The stories told of capital sometimes return larger-than-life, shaping our field of vision and bearing down on our own perceptions with the inexorable weight of its growth imperative. Yet capital is built on its internal contradictions, on the fact that it is composed of the diverse and sometimes directly contradictory commons of local communities and […]

The (Common) Sense: Voice of the People in the Shadow of the Water Diversion Project

This essay presents a poetic reflection on the rights of people, nature, and other living beings, inspired by the poetry of a local resident of the Mae Ngao River in Thailand.

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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