Economy and Market

Art 55. The forest, our greatest treasure

Juliana Miranda was born and raised in the community of San Francisco de Pachijal, northwest of Quito, in the Chocó region of the Andes. Juli is the youngest of 14 children. At the age of 22, no on...

Owning your time, owning yourself

Two people, living at both ends of the island of Muisne in Ecuador, have a lot in common: they are friends since childhood, after school, each sought life in different places, and, recently, they c...

Women farmers need to value ourselves

What happens when people seeking a transition to regenerative ways of life receive a basic income for 24 months? Guadalupe Pilapaña, a fellow farmer and producer of sugarcane and its appetizing by-...

Of rustic bread and authentic coherence

While walking along Medellín Street on our way to the downtown area of Mexico City, we bought a loaf of bread by pure chance. The bread did not last long as the family ate it in no time at all. We ...

Moral of the disaster

Hurricanes are tropical cyclones and consist of storms with extreme winds and deluge rains. We have all heard about these extreme climate events, increasingly frequent due to climate changes, undou...

When union makes more than strength

In Monquentiva, a village in the municipality of Guatavita in Colombia, three generations of farmers associated with the COLEGA de Guatavita Cooperative are demonstrating that their cooperative tra...

Incidence from the chacra

What began in the 1990s in Peru, with the struggle against the indiscriminate use of pesticides, has not ended, but the Alternative Agriculture Action Network (RAAA) has combined protest with propo...

Sun burns free

In the highlands, north of the Mexican capital, there is sun all day long, more than three hundred days a year. When Gregorio came from Germany to do a social year in the diocese of Tula, he o...

“The economy does not take into account the planet we live on”

Oxford academic Kate Raworth publishes Doughnut Economics, a book in which she demonstrates that conventional economics has led us astray.

What we talk about when we talk about the collaborative economy (and what we want to talk about)

Justice. Love. Freedom. Democracy. Collaboration. We are all for all that is good and against all that is bad. Who could be against justice? But it only takes a quick look at the major controversi...

The phenomenon of useless jobs (interview with David Graeber)

It's as if someone is inventing meaningless jobs just to keep us all busy. And this is precisely where the mystery lies. This is exactly what should not happen in capitalism.

Against the myth of laissez-faire and basic income

Are you in favour of the Immaculate Conception of Mary? Are you in favour of allowing Cinderella to return home after twelve o'clock? Are you in favour of the use of Daenerys Targaryen's dragon fla...

These five rebel movements want to change how money works

While other currents such as modern monetary theory rely on human institutions, crypto-crusaders consider politics to be an absurd endeavor.

Anti-capitalism in 5 minutes

Capitalism has given many things to those of us living in the First World (much of it of marginal or questionable value) in exchange for our souls, our hope for progressive politics, and the chance...

Serge Latouche: “Sustainable development is a slogan”

The French philosopher, promoter of the concept of degrowth, criticises the "waste society". For Latouche, the growth society is based on the unlimited accumulation of wealth, destroys nature and i...

Paying Off Favors: The New Mask of Capitalism

There is currently a great debate about the scope that the collaborative economy, or "share economy" in English, can have in society. In the midst of the controversy, arguments arise that, apparent...

Aamon: indigenous women in violence-affected Bengal province triple their income from organic rice; revive traditional varieties

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 di...

GMOs under debate

What are GMOs and why do agroecologists fight against them? A summary of the relevant aspects of this discussion.