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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Treating food as commons, not commodities
Jose Luis Vivero Pol explores new ways of democratising the governance of food systems and how (re)commoning food in society requires challenging dominant norms that value food as a commodity.
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On the Promise of the Commons
In this podcast episode, Vandana Shiva tells the story of historical struggle against colonialism and neoliberal capitalism that involves the commodification of seeds. She explains how re-commoning of seeds is a defence of a shared ecological and human diversity.
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‘Sedentist’ bias and the pastoral commons
Pastoralists are often marginalised from common land and resources, even by policies that claim to help them. Policies are based on a bias towards fixed, formalised land ownership.