Environment and Development
Extractive economies often ignore environmental and social costs. We document and analyze stories of resistance and sustainable paths that show another way is possible.
Art 56. Women who do not stop
“We are farmers, we are leaders, we are mothers, we are wives”, is the testimony of…
Art 55. The forest, our greatest treasure
Juliana Miranda was born and raised in the community of San Francisco de…
Art 54. Owning your time, owning yourself
Two people, living at both ends of the island of Muisne in Ecuador,…
Art 53. Women farmers need to value ourselves
What happens when people seeking a transition to regenerative ways of life re- ceive a basic…
Art 52. Of rustic bread and authentic coherence
While walking along Medellín Street on our way to the downtown area of Mexico City, we…
Art 50. When union makes more than strength
In Monquentiva, a village in the municipality of Guatavita in Colombia, three genera tions of farmers…
Art 49. Incidence from the chacra
What began in the 1990s in Peru, with the struggle against the indiscriminate use of pesticides,…
Art 46. Sun burns free
In the highlands, north of the Mexican capital, there is sun all day long, more than…
Art 44. Menthi Goyo
The Mezquital Valley, in the Mexican highlands above two thousand meters above sea level, 4 hours…
Art 43. Sowing water and reciprocity in the territory
“The potato is sad” – this phrase we heard frequently on our tour in the rural…
Art 40. Beast and beauty: extractivism and good living
The tentacle of mining extractivism has been present in the southwestern region of Antioquia; but thanks…
Art 36. My house is the river in kayak to sustainability
Jules´ life revolves around kayaking and rivers, the veins of the territory. He shares his discoveries,…
Art 35. Nature works different from the supermarket
Eating is a political act. Solidarity agriculture, practiced under the name of SoLaWi in Germany as…
Art 31. Energy in the outback
For more than ten years, the Llanos region of the Orinoquia, in Colombia, has been the…
Art 23. From trash to sharing economy: An experience where no one loses
Una What started as an initiative with a business logic against the eruption of a cholera…
Art 21. On the way to solidarity economy
The Guanentá, Comunera and Vélez provinces in the south of the department of Santander – Colombia,…
Art 9. The market is the Neighborhood
The production of a small family dairy, the result of a settling process with obstacles, has…
Art 8. Sistema participativo de Garantía ECO Feria
El sistema participativo de garantía de ECO Feria es un mecanismo de acreditación participativa al alcance…
Art 5. Weaving with dignity
Starting from a collective initiative for the cultural rescue of a productive area, the goal is…
Art 1. Alliance of prosumers
Conscious consumption of healthy food, produced by farmers at an ecological small-scale and marketed by a…