Jacob Smessaert and Julia Spanier published an essay in the Political Ecology platform Undisciplined Environments. The essay, titled ‘What can degrowth bring to food system transformation beyond capitalism?‘ discusses the following questions: Can degrowth theory contribute valuable new perspectives to the thinking and doing of food system transformations beyond capitalism in the Global North? Or…

Giuseppe Feola and Laura van Oers gave a talk at the seminar series ‘Post-Capitalist Food Futures‘ at Wageningen University and Research. Their talk was titled ‘Degrowth and agri-food systems: current debates and future research directions‘.

As part of a larger e-training on political advocacy of the SALSIFI programme (Supporting Advanced Learning for Stakeholders Involved in Sustainable Food-systems Initiatives), Leonie Guerrero Lara will give a talk based on her research on political advocacy of the German CSA network, covering different strategies of, as well as resources and skills for advocacy. The…

Julia Spanier presented a paper titled ‘Rural-urban care? Interrogating the transformation of city-countryside relations in community-supported agriculture‘ at the Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene conference at the University of Sheffield. Abstract In line with a relational ontology of space and place , I propose to think urban inhabitation by transgressing the conventionally set ‘boundaries’ of…

Julia Spanier and Leonie Guerrero Lara gave a workshop titled “Degrowth, Ernährung & Landwirtschaft” (Degrowth, Food and Agriculture) at the 2023 spring gathering of the German CSA network (Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft). The workshop was based on the findings of their joint research on a potential coalition between the German CSA and Degrowth movements, and ended…

Last Sunday, Guilherme Raj presented at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2023 annual meeting in Denver. His presentation “Selective, reciprocal and quiet: Lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture” is based on his latest research around queer farmers in Portugal which will be publish in the near future.

Yesterday Jacob Smessaert and Giuseppe Feola published a new paper in Environmental Values with the title “Beyond Statism and Deliberation: Questioning Ecological Democracy through Eco-Anarchism and Cosmopolitics”. The paper can be found with this link: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/pre-prints/content-whp_ev_3565    

Dit is een instrument voor boer-burgerdialogen dat de mogelijkheden voor een participatief garantiesysteem voor buurtmarkten verkent. Een PGS kan buurtmarkten mogelijk helpen om concrete uitgangpunten voor duurzaamheid vast te leggen die aangepast zijn aan lokale behoeften, kansen en waarden. Het biedt producenten de mogelijkheid om het verhaal achter hun producten en productiewijze te vertellen. PGS…

This is an advisory report for farmer-citizen dialogues around the exploration of the potential for a participatory guarantee system (PGS) for consumers’ buying groups. It can guide participants in the process and the discussions. A consumers’ buying group is a group of citizens who buy collectively from local farmers and producers. Vegetables, fruit, dairy, bread…

Last week, Leonie Guerrero Lara gave a presentation ‘Where does the movement stand today, how does it define and delimit itself?’ which is based on her paper titled ‘Who are “we”? Boundary work of Community Supported Agriculture in Germany and Italy’ and participated in a panel discussion together with Philipp Degens and Lukas Lapschieß von…