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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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.
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A Portuguese village on the front line of the ‘energy transition’
Covas de Barroso is facing the threat of an open-cast lithium mine, with just 10 days to respond to a public consultation.
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Comic: Seeing Conflict at the Margins
A comic explores views of resource conflicts from the perspectives of rural people in Kenya and Madagascar, shared with the help of participatory video methods.
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Podcast: Seeding the commons in Argentina
Podcast episode with Almendra Cremaschi of Bioleft, a seed commoning initiative based in Argentina.
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Unsettling enclosures
Anoushka Zoob Carter asks what the unsettling of enclosures looks like on the land in three different contexts.
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How could land in England be reformed for the commons?
Elise Wach explores the proposals from various social movements for changing how England’s rural spaces are governed.
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Podcast: Food that’s not for sale
A conversation with Sam Bliss on the practices that can decommodify food and ‘re-common’ the food system.
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Geothermal meets pastoral livelihoods in Kenya
The expansion of geothermal power in Kenya has impacted the Maasai and other residents, creating new divisions and tensions.
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Hopping over the fence
How mass trespassers in England are venturing on to fenced-off lands to reconnect with lost commons.
