Production and Food

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 ...

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...

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...

This Hyderabad-based organisation has helped over 250.000 farmers through permaculture

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives is striving to achieve ecological and sustainable agricultural livelihoods through permaculture farming.

Fossil-free diet

To avert catastrophic climate scenarios, we must phase out fossil fuels while transforming food systems. A growing body of scientific research shows that both challenges are not only equally urgent...

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

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...

Sowing seeds of ecocentrism

It is often rare to meet someone who aptly suits their name- “an aptronym!” Jeewika (Hindi for livelihood or the one who gives life) is one such being. As an educator–ecofeminist–farmer–ecopreneur,...

On a journey to find where the wild things grow

Wild edibles have been part of indigenous community diets for centuries. Now chefs, scholars and farmer collectives are trying to document the medicinal and nutritional value of these wild foods

Confluence of academia and traditional knowledge systems: towards climate resilient agriculture

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 research...

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...

Impact on the climate and wallet – 12 points on the initiative against factory farming

On September 25, 2022, we will vote on, among other things, stricter animal welfare laws. What the "Initiative against Factory Farming" proposal demands, what the opponents say - and what would cha...

Indigenous food: the not-so-secret ingredient for sustainability

Sometimes, the way food gets positioned socially may have no relation to how science determines its nutritional value.

Healthy food – not for everyone in Germany

There is also food poverty in this country – and there are many reasons for it: too little money, a lack of education and structures that set the wrong incentives for food production.

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...