Environment and Development

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-...

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...

What are we called to be?

This motivating experience is about Lore and Feli, about these two characters, with their children Sara and Juan, and revolves around the challenge we all know in our lives, in the search for t...

Mutual nurturing

In Catachilla and Rancho Nuevo, two communities in the municipality of Santivañez, Cochabamba - Bolivia, a group of people have managed to adapt to the climate crisis, particularly to extreme wat...

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...

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...

What is syntropic agriculture and how can farmers benefit from it?

Simply put, syntropy is the complementary opposite of entropy. While entropy governs thermodynamic transformations that release energy at the expense of complexity, syntropy governs life, which acc...

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...

Food is political – and a human right

Even in the 21st century, sufficient and healthy food is not a given for billions of people. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the number of hungry and malnourished peopl...

Women sustain traditional wisdom of conserving indigenous seeds

Understanding the close link between crop diversity and resilience, women farmers in Mandla ensure that the conservation practice of climate-resilient traditional seeds continues.

A fully organic ladakh? Towards food sovereignty on the roof of the world

In March 2020 I wrote about how Ladakh, India’s northernmost region bordering Tibet, faces a stark choice between succumbing to the dominant logic of ‘development’ that would erase its ecological a...

GMOs under debate

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