Production and alimentation From transgenics and hamburgers to prosumers, food safety and development 3.0 are topics covered by information material:
Aamon: tribal women in violence-hit bengal province triple incomes with organic rice; revive traditional varieties
By Urvashi Dev RawalonMay. 24, 2022 vikalpsangam.org In India, rice has been considered auspicious and a symbol of prosperity and success since ancient times. For thousands of tribal and underprivileged women in Nayagram block of Bengal’s Jhargram district, caught in a cycle of Maoist violence and poverty, the cultivation of organic indigenous rice varieties has […]
Local food: the not-so-secret ingredient for sustainability
By Gautam BishtonApr. 22, 2022 vikalpsangam.org Sometimes, the way food gets positioned socially may have no relation to how science determines its nutritional value. As evidence around climate change and its impact becomes more glaring, many people believe reorganising the global food system is one possible strategy to combat this challenge. Studies suggest that our […]
250,000 FAMILIES CAMPAIGN – The existence of flavor and taste
by Stephen Sherwood, Ana Deaconu, and Myriam Paredes The experience of the Campaign aligns with Deleuze and Guattari for whom being depends on human-material relations that embrace context, material and people and involves an assemblage of extensive-intensive capacities. Change in food is born in the constitution of embodiments, enabled through common (and not-so-common) practice — […]