Category: Agrarian Space
Stories from spaces and struggles involving people whose lives depend on growing food and living off the land.
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Myanmar’s home gardens
Nuria Lopez Vazquez writes about collective resources and interdependent care in home gardens in Myanmar.
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Using maps to defend land in Xolobeni
A new series of maps shows the values and visions for land in Xolobeni, South Africa, in contrast to top-down ‘development’ plans.
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Podcast: Unearthing environmentalism and techno-capitalist vampires
A conversation with Patrick Bresnihan about histories of environmental movements, and the material impacts of digital technology.
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Podcast: Shepherding schools and reviving rural futures
Podcast episode about the Inland project in northern Spain, which combines commons-based approaches to pastoralism, agroecology, culture and art.
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Food systems are broken. Could treating land as commons help?
Widespread separation from the land combined with deep inequalities may give rise to novel forms of land governance, but with contradictions and contestations.
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What is land for?
Histories of enclosure and profit shape what can be grown on the land, as Scotland’s history illustrates.
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What happened to the global land grab?
Ian Scoones discusses the aftermath and legacies of the ‘global land grab’ ahead of a major international conference on the topic.
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Photo story: Xolobeni – A Commoning Success Story
Photo story about the struggle by people in Xolobeni to protect and develop their commons against extractive interests.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
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Mapping community gardens in the UK
The organisation Sustain provides a map of community gardens around the UK, and organises a weekend of action where gardens invite people in to take part.