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Degrowth: The awakening of consciousness before an alternative
Ed. note: This article was originally written in Spanish. The English was translated by the author and lightly edited by Jane K. Brundage. How many times have we heard our political leaders talk about economic growth, production or even consumption? These three spheres have dominated political discourse in practically all Western societies, establishing “economic fundamentalism” as the essential basis for consolidating the association of social welfare with money.
Beyond the Daily Grind: How a Few Peruvian Coffee Revolutionaries Are Conserving Nature While Growing World-Class Beans
In 2014, I spent 10 days hiking through the Mapacho River Basin, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth in Peru’s western Amazon region. I walked along trails shaded by a dense canopy, waded through rivers and slept in shelters designed to dry coca leaves. I was there leading a research team collecting data on the livelihoods of Indigenous farmers. Shortly after I left, though, something arrived that would devastate the communities.
Beyond the Daily Grind: How a Few Peruvian Coffee Revolutionaries Are Conserving Nature While Growing World-Class Beans
Ed. note: This story originally appeared in Spanish in La Mula. Beyond the Daily Grind: How a Few Peruvian Coffee Revolutionaries Are Conserving Nature While Growing World-Class Beans. This is a story about a radical idea to improve farmer livelihoods and conservation in one of Peru’s and the entire Amazon’s most biodiverse regions via the humble coffee bean. In 2014, I spent 10 days hiking through the Mapacho River Basin, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth in Peru’s western Amazon region.
Fake Food vs Farm Fresh Food
Today Small Farm Future brings you that rarity on this site, a guest post. In this instance it’s a review of Chris Van Tulleken’s book Ultra-Processed People from Christine Dann, who will be familiar to regular readers here from her comments (or perhaps from her books, like food@home).
Agricultores peruanos producen granos de café de primera calidad gracias a la conservación de la naturaleza
Esta historia es sobre una idea radical para mejorar los medios de vida de los productores y la conservación en una de las regiones más biodiversas de la Amazonía peruana, todo a través de un simple grano de café. En 2014, pasé 10 días recorriendo a pie la cuenca del río Mapacho, uno de los lugares con mayor biodiversidad en la Tierra, ubicado en la vertiente oriental andina (selva alta).
How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report made it clear that many adaptation projects around the world are not delivering on the promise to build resilience to climate impacts. Currently, less than 10% of global climate finance is reaching communities directly, restricting the intended beneficiaries to have little or no say over how funds are to be spent. Acknowledgement of this has triggered calls to strengthen “locally led adaptation” (LLA).
What should be saved?
I took large chunks of the weekend — in which I could not do much vigorous work outside for all the Canadian smoke and could not write much for all the bugs in this machine — to clean up my house. (I think it’s actually not this machine but something iCloud-derived because it’s affecting my phone also, to a lesser extent.
Removing dams from the Klamath River is a step toward justice for Native Americans in Northern California
Removing dams from the Klamath River is a step toward justice for Native Americans in Northern California. The Klamath River runs over 250 miles (400 kilometers) from southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean in Northern California. It flows through the steep, rugged Klamath Mountains, past slopes of redwood, fir, tanoak and madrone, and along pebbled beaches where willows shade the river’s edge. Closer to its mouth at Requa, the trees rising above the river are often blanketed in fog.
A Road to Where? The consequences of new roads in the Amazon
The indigenous community of Mendosayoc lies in the remote rainforest of the Mapacho Basin on the Eastern Andes of Peru. Walking to the closest road is a daunting 2 hour hike with over 2000 feet of elevation gain in the sweltering tropical heat. Francisca Machaca is 63 years old and has lived her whole life in Mendosayoc. Her main concern is access to health care. A mother leads her children down the last stretch of road overlooking the Mapacho Valley.
The Walkers and the renaissance of indigenous culture in Peru
By Aaron Ebner, originally published by Resilience.org September 25, 2020 During the first weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Peruvian Government’s draconian lock down, Maria walked with her three daughters from Lima, the capital city with a population of 10 million, to her home community in the eastern jungle province of Ucayali. All transportation was suspended, and Maria was left with a daunting journey. This trip would take a normal hiker 180 hours, and include 38,000 feet of ascent.
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