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Scientific paper • 2012

New distribution models: the organic farmers way to food sovereignity

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...

Scientific paper • 2012

The European food sovereignty movement engagement

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...

Scientific paper • 2012

Changing Agriculture: Food Sovereignty of the territories in response to the energy crisis and the new world revolution

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...

Scientific paper • 2012

Leitbild Schweiz oder Kasachstan?: Zur Entwicklung der ländlichen Räume in Sachsen - Eine Denkschrift zur Agrarpolitik

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...

Scientific paper • 2012

Organic farming in the Italian penitentiary system to rehabilitate detainees

By: Anna Ciaperoni

Key words: social farming, penitentiary system, integration, rehabilitation

Scientific paper • 2012

Agriculture and human ecology: the value of the territory

By: Carlo Modonesi, Monica Oldani, Celestino Panizza

Introduction: The achievements in life sciences of the last 50 years have widely deepened knowledge and the possibility of intervention on the foundations of living nature. However, such undeniable achievements, by focusing primarily on structural aspects of biological organization, have not shed much light on other characteristics of living creatures, such as historical and ecological ones....

Scientific paper • 2012

The transition towards a bioregional model: the case of Friuli Venezia Giulia

By: Piani Lucia, Rover Alberto

Key words: bioregion, agriculture, transition

Scientific paper • 2012

Permaculture proposals and tools for degrowth process in the fields of rural work and agriculture in Brazil

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre e Jacques Dias

Keywords : Work, hunger, poverty, Industrial farming, Permaculture, autonomy

Scientific paper • 2012

PROVE: degrowing the use of natural resources for food production

By: João Luís Homem de Carvalho

From the text: According to IBGE (2010), from 2000 to 2010, over 400,000 small farms went bankrupt, pushing about 2 million people away from rural zones toward big cities, and causing serious social problems. One of the reasons for this exodus is the agribusiness production model, based on “technological packets” and on the production of commodities for export. It uses genetic modified...

Misc • 2011

Urban Gardening

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...

Misc • 2011

Food Crash - Wir werden uns ökologisch ernähren oder gar nicht mehr

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...

Presentation • 2010

Interrogations and proposals - some inconvenient questions about degrowth

By: Joaquim Sempere

Presentation of an oral session by Joaquim Sempere at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Interrogations and proposals - some inconvenient questions about degrowth". Degrowth; Proposals and Questions from Goteo / Platoniq

Presentation • 2010

Development alternatives from the South. A Ghanaian rural development example

By: Gaia Calligaris

Poster and transcription of an poster session by Gaia Calligaris at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Development alternatives from the South. A Ghanaian rural development example". Poster en francais

Presentation • 2010

Participatory guarantee systems in organic faming as an expression of agroecology and as a part of an economic degrowth program: the experience in Andalusia

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".

Presentation • 2010

Alternative circuits on agro-food markets

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".

Presentation • 2010

Agriculture in a degrowth society: helpful indicator for the transition. Transitory indicator for paradigm shift

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".

Presentation • 2010

Promoting Traditional Knowledge systems in the international Year of Biodiversity - Which Shortfalls of Intellectual Property Rights framework to uphold Traditional Knowledge systems?

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?".

Presentation • 2010

The food short supply chain: a socioeconomic perspective

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".

Presentation • 2010

Participatory Guarantee Systems in Organic Farming as an Expression of Agroecology and as part of an Economic Degrowth Program: the Experience in Andalusia

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".

Presentation • 2010

Agriculture in a Degrowth Society: Helpful Indicator for the Transition - Indicator for paradigm shift

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".