PVWW Community Webinar: ‘Raíces de Soberanía’ Photovoice as an Archive and its challences

Photovoice Worldwide

In this hour long community webinar, Lucas Sebastián Wordsell presents on the potential of photovoice and other audio-visual methods to research and communicate farmers’ territorial struggles around food systems and resistance to extractive, unsustainable, and colonial systems. At the end of the presentation, we opened the floor for Q&A and reflections on these topics...


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Why agroecology isn’t simply ecological agriculture

Aryo Feldman

It is natural, given its name, to think of agroecology as a more ecological way of food growing. There is also a tendency in Europe, and particularly in the UK, to equate the two.

I have noticed this in academic circles, from which the science of agroecology was mostly about using an ecological framework (i.e. studying the relationships between organisms) to analyse and improve agricultural systems (though there are more holistic agroecological departments that have established themselves more recently, such as the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University).

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En tiempos de crisis, muchos actores descienden sobre comunidades afectadas para imponer sus formas de ser a la población con algún objetivo particular. A menudo, se presentan como salvadores los propios responsables de los desastres. ¿Cómo podemos cambiar las narrativas de las crisis y superar los ciclos de deterioro y opresión? ¿Cómo podemos buscar nuevos caminos hacia el pasado, el presente y el futuro? Explorar estos aspectos y las perspectivas de quienes nos rodean pueden cultivar una imaginación radical que aclare nuestros conceptos de la alimentación, la autonomía y el territorio.

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The Rural is Radical - Table Companions Episode 1

Aryo Feldman

Stories of Community Food Activism: A podcast that links you to people and organisations that are changing our relationships to food and the land. 

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