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Scientific paper • 2016

Organizational practices, social values and economic measures in Community Supported Agriculture: A historical overview

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept was born in the 1980s in the United States and has been expanded throughout the world. CSA is a “concept describing a community-based organization of producers and consumers. The consumers agree to provide direct support to the local growers who will produce their food. The growers agree to do their best to provide a sufficient quantity and...

Scientific paper • 2016

Sustainable Farm Systems? Applying Energy—Landscape Integrated Analysis in past and present Western agricultures

By: Claudio Cattaneo

ELIA (Energy Landscape Integrated Analysis) is a method that combines energy analysis of agroecosystems (energy flows and capacity to store energy within them) with land cover / land use change and so it represents the energy imprint over a landscape. First applied to Vallès County in the Barcelona Region a similar study is here replicated to a new time point and to other ten cases across...

Misc • 2016

Willkommen bei der Erdbeerernte! Ihr Mindestlohn beträgt.... - Gewerkschaftliche Organisierung in der migrantischen Landarbeit: ein internationaler Vergleich

By: Sezonieri

"Wir bekommen Lohnzettel, wo alles richtig draufsteht. Der Lohn wird jeden Monat am gleichen Tag auf unser Konto überwiesen. Und wenn wir Überstunden leisten, dann werden die ausbezahlt." Was nach "ganz normalem" Lohnarbeitsverhältnis klingen könnte, ist hart erkämpftes Terrain: Nach wie vor ist die landwirtschaftliche Lohnarbeit eine der prekärsten Branchen. Bezahlung weit unter...

Report • 2015

Vegetable Cooperative "Rote Beete"

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video about the vegetable cooperative "Rote Beete" and how they grew vegetable for the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.

Report • 2015

Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete

By: Marc Menningmann

Kurzes Video zur Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete und wie diese für die Degrowth Konferenz in Leipzig 2014 Gemüse angebaut hat.

Report • 2015

Urgent recall - Our food system under review

By: Stephen Devlin, Thomas Dosch, Aniol Esteban, Griffin Carpenter

neweconomics.org: What makes a food system successful? Historically, the criteria have been high output, low prices, and eradication of deficiency diseases. This understanding is outdated and needs redefining. A successful food system is one that delivers high wellbeing, social justice and environmental stewardship. This report identifies eight indicators, illustrating that such a food system...

Interview • 2015

Aufbruchtage - und wenn, für alle Menschen ... Lucia Ortiz im Gespräch

By: Lucia Ortiz, Schattenblick

Interview mit Lucia Ortiz im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Text: Lucia Ortiz nahm am Abschlußtag der Konferenz auch an der Podiumsdiskussion zu der Frage "Wie geht es weiter?" teil. Im Anschluß daran konnte der Schattenblick im Gespräch mit ihr einige der aufgeworfenen Fragen vertiefen. Zur Sprache kamen das Vorgehen großer Agrar- bzw. Minengesellschaften im Streit um...

Interview • 2015

Open Source – Cargonomia | Vincent Liegey | 12/05/2015

By: Vincent Liegey, Adrien Despoisse, Sara Feher

radiozora: As a peak of our Open Source series, this episode celebrates the birth of Cargonomia, a forward-looking project that blends several socially and environmentally conscious ideas and movements that include “Cyclonomia Do it Yourself Bicycle Social Cooperative, Zsamboki Biokert, an organic vegetable farm and sustainable agriculture community education center which distributes weekly...

Scientific paper • 2015

Special Issue "Between Resilience and Resistance"

By: Claudio Cattaneo, Hug March, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Giacomo DAlisa, Francesca Forno, Simon Maurano, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Lorenzo Bosi, Lorenzo Zamponi, Elisabetta Cangelosi, Marta Camps-Calvet, Johannes Langemeyer, Laura Calvet-Mir

Published at Partecipaziones & Conflitto Vol 8, No. 2 (2015) First contributions include: - Grassroots (Economic) Activism in Times of Crisis: Mapping the Redundancy of Collective Actions. By Giacomo DAlisa, Francesca Forno, Simon Maurano - Urban Squats as Eco-Social Resistance to and Resilience in the Face of Capitalist Relations: Case Studies from Barcelona and Rome. By Claudio Cattaneo,...

Scientific paper • 2015

Reimagining the New Industrial City: articulating an alternative ethos of waste and production through ‘closing the loop’

By: Ingrid Elísabet Feeney

About the article: Ingrid Feeny provides another participant-observation of an alternative economy in practice. The Plant is designed to “close the loop” on urban food production in a South Chicago neighbourhood. A zero waste philosophy plays a central role in practices as by-products of one set of food production activities and even the renovation of the building itself are used as raw...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Der Schaden geht weit, die Wunde sitzt tief ... Eckardt Heukamp im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Eckardt Heukamp

Interview mit Eckardt Heukamp im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Der Landwirt Eckardt Heukamp wohnte zum Zeitpunkt des Gesprächs noch in dem weitgehend verlassenen Ort Borschemich und bewirtschaftet Flächen bei Lützerath, das künftig ebenfalls dem Braunkohletagebau zum Opfer fallen soll. Dort fand auf einem seiner...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Ohne Menschen geht es nicht ... Tierbefreiungsaktivist Christian im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Christian

Interview mit Tierbefreiungsaktivist Christian im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Auf dem Klimacamp und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier stand das Thema Landwirtschaft durchaus im Mittelpunkt, wie zahlreiche Vorträge und Workshops zu Ernährungssouveränität, zur Kritik an agroindustrieller...

Interview • 2015

Permaculture in Ethiopia - Community gardening, agriculture & climate adaption measures

By: Asmelash Dagne

Interview with Asmelash Dagne from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: Small-holding farming and permaculture gardens have something in common: they provide their people with food and they are a self-providing or subsistance economy. Permaculture is also being used to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is helping...

Interview • 2015

Ernährungssouveränität & Klimagerechtigkeit

By: Ludwig Rumetshofer

Interview mit Ludwig Rumetshofer vom Solikon-Kongress für Solidarische Ökonomie und Transformation 2015 in Berlin. Aus dem Programm Die industrielle Landwirtschaft gehört zu den großen Verursachern von Treibhausgasen. Deshalb muss sie sich grundlegend Verändern, aber nicht nur in ihrer Produktionsweise. Die Organisation La Via Campensina setzt sich für eine faire, ökologische und...

Misc • 2015

Food sovereignty and solidarity economy

By: Andrea Ferrante, Ludwig Rumetshofer, Paula Gioia, Paula Gioia, Jocelyn Parot, Judith Hitchman, Jenny Gkiugki, Elizabeth Ritsch-Meyer, Isa Alvarez

Video of the forum "Food sovereignty and solidarity economy" from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: What are the key manifestations and criteria? What are the areas that are shared, and how can they be strengthened? This forum will bring together practitioners, both producers and consumers interested in how food as a human...

Scientific paper • 2014

Farm-hacking open agricultural machines: the role of peer-based open design communities in achieving sustainable production

By: Michel Bauwens

Abstract: Corporate R&D communities design for scarcity with planned obsolescence not as a bug but as a feature. Open design communities design for inclusion, modularity, bio-degradability, the shared use of machinery and combined with distributed microfactories, prefigure a demand-based economy 'of scope' that aims to replace a suppy-driven economy 'of scale'. This intervention will offer...

Scientific paper • 2014

Are The Inherent Limits in the Process of Industrialization? A Study on the Seed Sector in the U.S. and in Germany

By: Barbara Brandl

Abstract: The development of seeds is essential for a sustainable and socially adapted type of agriculture. This relationship has been widely discussed and is usually invoked by natural scientists. However, a social science perspective on the connection between plant breeding research and agricultural production allows a broader perspective. In order to explore the effects of seed production on...

Scientific paper • 2014

From commodity to commons: analysis of experimentation of collective appropriation of agricultural lands

By: Elsa Costanzo

Abstract: We propose an institutional analysis, based on a field research, of an emergent French initiative called Terre de Liens (TdL) that intends to take out agricultural lands from the speculative market, contributes to their de-commodification and governs them as a commons. We will wonder to what extent TdL may turn agricultural lands into a commons, following Elinor Ostrom’s definition....

Scientific paper • 2014

Tax internationally traded commodities to safeguard biodiversity

By: Michael Curran, Laura de Baan, Thomas Koellner, Carlo Rondinini, Piero Visconti, Stefanie Hellweg

Biodiversity loss, agriculture, ecological tax, compensation

Scientific paper • 2014

Peasant agriculture or agribusiness: what production model would lead to degrowth?

By: João Luís Homem de Carvalho

Abstract: There is a dispute between two agricultural models in Brazil: the agribusiness and the peasant agriculture. We need to discuss which agricultural model is more to our proposed degrowth. This paper aims to show that peasant agriculture in Brazil produces more food for the local population, occupies more manpower, uses fewer natural resources and emits lower amounts of greenhouse gases...