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By: Michael Beleites

Michael Beleites verknüpft seine schonungslose Analyse der ostdeutschen Agrarpolitik vor und nach der 89er Revolution mit der Suche nach Visionen für eine zukunftsfähige Landbewirtschaftung. In dem bäuerlichen Erbe Sachsens und Thüringens sieht er eine besondere Chance zur schrittweisen Wiederbelebung sozial und ökologisch verträglicher bäuerlicher Strukturen. Die künftige Agrarpolitik müsse da...

By: Michelle Arroyo

Part of the introduction: In México, one of the most agriculturally-based countries in the Americas, there is a growing tendency among rural farmers to promote a new type of rurality. This new approach aims to solve their ecological, economic and social problems through actions that encourage a de-growth instead of a sustainable growth in development. In this essay I aim to contribute to an und...

By: Luca Colombo

Abstract: The 2011 Nyeleni Europe Forum set up the conditions for the establishment of a wide European movement for food sovereignty that aims at a thorough redefinition of food and agriculture systems towards more sustainable and socially responsible policies and practices. Three pillars were identified as outcomes of the Forum, meant to ‘resist’, ‘build’ and ‘transform’ the current food syste...

By: Andrea Ferrante, Ortolani Livia

Abstract: “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems”. The organic movement developed and led by farmers who wanted to change the relation between consumer/citizen and producers, with an explicit critique to the distribution mode...

By: João Luís Homem de Carvalho

Abstract: Ce travail n'a pas l'intention d'épuiser le thème, juste pour montrer et d'expliquer pourquoi le Brésil, même en étant la sixième puissance économique dans le monde, a d'énormes disparités sociales. Parmi les diverses raisons tiens à souligner deux: la première est la politique de subventionnement de l'industrie de l'automobile et la seconde est la politique qui soutient le modèle bré...

By: John Gowdy, Lisi Krall

Abstract: The adoption of agriculture was perhaps the most momentous transformation in human history. It set into motion forces that changed our species from being a relatively minor player into one that dominated local ecosystems and is now changing the biophysical characteristics of the entire planet. We argue that this transformation can be understood as a leap to ultrasociality. After agric...

By: Nils Aguilar

voicesoftransition.org: This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition movement in the UK, where communities are already moving towards local resilience. The pioneers of thi...

By: João Luis

The publisher: In this book you will find an experience that many - at the time that it was implemented - called a completely utopian proposal. However, it was fully achieved and proved that it is possible to carry out an agro-food production by undertaking the reallocation of both production and consumption, combined with a social inclusion program based on degrowth principles regarding the us...

By: John E. Carroll

Abstract: De-­Growth equals Re-­Growth. This is inevitably a fact. There cannot be one without the other. Examples abound, but the one upon which I will focus here is the experience of New England food and farming as a case example of re‐growth following de-­growth, fulfilling the same role, the same societal need, but in a very different.

By: Felix zu Löwenstein

„Bio? Als Luxus für Reiche ist das ja ganz nett. Aber jetzt wird’s ernst. Fast sieben Milliarden Menschen müssen ernährt werden, und es werden ständig mehr. Jetzt muss industriell produziert werden: mit Pestiziden, Kunstdünger, Gentechnik!“ Diese These klingt doch nach gesundem Menschenverstand! Aber ist sie wirklich zutreffend? Oder gehen wir damit der Agrarindustrie auf den Leim, für die der ...

By: Christa Müller (Hg.)

Über die Rückkehr der Gärten in die Stadt Der Verlag: Der Garten als weltabgewandtes Refugium im Privaten war gestern. In diesem Buch ist die Rede von Gärten, die sich der Welt zuwenden. Sie boomen ausgerechnet dort, wo es laut, selten beschaulich und zuweilen chaotisch zugeht: mitten in der Stadt. Beim Anbau von Tomaten und Karotten suchen die Akteure der neuen Gartenbewegung die Begegnung ...

By: Walden Bello

Zwischen 2006 und 2008 kam es in vielen sogenannten Entwicklungsländern vor dem Hintergrund steigender Nahrungsmittelpreise und Versorgungsengpässe wiederholt zu Protesten und Aufständen. Seinen Höhepunkt erreichte dieser Protestzyklus im Frühjahr 2008 mit Aufständen in etwa 30 Ländern. Die Zahl der Menschen, die sich die Grundlebensmittel nicht mehr leisten konnten, stieg allein in Asien um ru...

By: David Barkin

Presentation of an oral Session by David Barkin at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona wit the title "Degrowth: New Strategies for Strengthening Tradition". Barkin decrecbarcelona from Goteo / Platoniq

By: Laurent Lievens

Poster by Laurent Lievens from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title “Agriculture in a Degrowth Society: Helpful Indicator for the Transition - Indicator for paradigm shift".

By: Sofía Boza Martínez

Presentation by Sofía Boza Martínez from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Participatory Guarantee Systems in Organic Farming as an Expression of Agroecology and as part of an Economic Degrowth Program: the Experience in Andalusia".

By: Bruno Scaltriti

Poster by Bruno Scaltriti from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "The food short supply chain: a socioeconomic perspective".

By: Joana Roja Dias

Poster by Joana Roja Dias at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Promoting Traditional Knowledge systems in the international Year of Biodiversity - Which Shortfalls of Intellectual Property Rights framework to uphold Traditional Knowledge systems?".

By: Laurent Lievens

Transcription of an poster session by Laurent Lievens at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Agriculture in a degrowth society: helpful indicator for the transition. Transitory indicator for paradigm shift".

By: Lucia Piani, Carlo Santarossa

Transcription of an poster session by Lucia Piani and Carlo Santarossa at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Alternative circuits on agro-food markets".

By: Sofía Boza Martínez

Transcription of an poster session by Sofía Boza Martínez at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Participatory guarantee systems in organic framing as an expression of agroecology and as a part of an economic degrowth program: the experience in Andalusia".