Production and alimentation From transgenics and hamburgers to prosumers, food safety and development 3.0 are topics covered by information material:
Slope Park Food. The New York cooperative that revolutionized the sale of food
By Stella Álvarez This week our meeting was with Janna and Bill Beckler, partners for 20 years of Slope Park Food, one of the oldest food retail cooperatives in the world located in Brooklyn, New York, which has inspired and continues to inspire people from several countries to build a new business model for the sale of […]
La Impossible, the Mexican cooperative that invented a way to get to a fair price
By Stella Álvarez This week we spoke with Luis Bracamontes, an agronomist and currently a doctoral student, manager along with 30 other people, most of them women , of the “La Imposible” Cooperative located in the Colonia Obrera in the Mexican capital. We were surprised by his youth and tenacity to create and above all to persevere in a management model that, […]
COMBINING SCIENCE AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: ON THE ROAD TO A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
By Saumya John Parindey: Dr. K. G. Sreeja Alivelihood: Paddy farming, Climate change Research and Consulting Region: Thrissur, Kerala We are defined by what we choose to do- consistently and convincingly; instrumental of our being, and a voice to our priorities. Sreeja is no different! As a farmer (by chance), livelihood researcher and climate change […]
La Impossible, the Mexican cooperative that invented a way to get to a fair price
By Stella Álvarez FoodConciencia This week we spoke with Luis Bracamontes, an agronomist and currently a doctoral student, manager along with 30 other people, most of them women , of the “La Imposible” Cooperative located in the Colonia Obrera in the Mexican capital. We were surprised by his youth and tenacity to create and above all to persevere in a management […]