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…

On 1 November Giuseppe Feola participated in the show Planting Permission at Dublin Digital Radio, an indipendent online radio station and alternative media platform. In the 1-hourn long conversation with the host, Oisin Klinkenbergh, Giuseppe talked about transformation to sustainability and capitalism, degrowth and the circular economy, and the role of grassoots social movements in…