Latin America | Agroecology and the Solidarity Economy
In Latin America, Agroecology has beenĀ linked withĀ the solidarity economy (economia solidaria) since the 1990s. European efforts can learn from their strategies.
In Latin America, Agroecology has beenĀ linked withĀ the solidarity economy (economia solidaria) since the 1990s. European efforts can learn from their strategies.
Growth in Native communities is relationship-based, not economy-based, and so Native CFDIs are putting much effort into building localized decision-making that provides not only financial support, but also builds trust.
In the peril-filled decade ahead, local, collective struggles by people of all agesāas exemplified by Extinction Rebellion, PODER, and Start:Empowermentāwill be essential to advancing multiracial, pluralistic democracy and climate justice nationwide.
Letās talk about the big question of the year: āHow much do I grow to feed my family for the year?āĀ
When we begin to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable among us is when we will see the most healingāthe type of mitigation we need for our changing climate.
Already it is starting to make economic as well as social sense to produce more food and other essentials locally, and exchange them outside existing industrial consumption systems. In other words, to live bioregionally now!
Vegetable gardens in this country are largely seen as a āsummer thingā, and I believe this is because the crops people associate with vegetable gardens are mainly summer growing.
We are living in a context today in which the physical limits, natural resource constraints, and conditions of overshoot associated with the expansion of the dominant system of production and consumption are becoming increasingly clear.
What would it mean if we created a safe space to express our tensions and concerns about value in all of these social and economic relationships? Let us overthrow the tyranny of valuelessness and discover what we might learn about ourselves on the other side.
Scientists, economists and Indigenous activists met in Oxford in September to discuss a challenge central to solving climate change: how can the world rid itself of fossil fuels?
The bottom line is this: anything you grow now is something you no longer have to buy or worry about finding in a food store. Things are not going to get better, no matter what the ads say.
Kinship: Belonging in a World of RelationsĀ isĀ a powerful, multidimensional work of extraordinary vision and reach whose overarching theme of humans sharing encounters with our other-than-human relations presaged a project out of the ordinary.