A Spring Stroll Down the (Memory) Lanes of Kamla Nagar
Saarang Narayan
A winding search for the ghosts of Kamla Nagar, the North Delhi market where Saarang Narayan grew up. They linger in Art Deco homes hollowed into PGs, an …
Shrishtee Bajpai
The Tharaka people and their territory known as the Land of Bees is a territory of community of relationships involving bees, rivers, forests, animals, ancestors, seeds and other beings. In this journey, the author learns how Tharaka people …
Maitreya Prithwiraj Ghorpade
When vested interests threatened to gobble up the century-old Bondvol Lake, people’s power compelled the system to restore this water commons to its rightful keepers.
Note: Originally published by Land Conflict Watch.
Santa Cruz, Goa: As …
Umed Qurbonbekov
Note: This article was originally published by Home Planet Fund on July 28, 2026.
In the mountain village of Darshay, life is shaped by land, water, and resilience.
“I am Dorghabek,” he begins. “A farmer. This is our …
Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba
An English translation of this article is available here. // Una traducción al inglés de este artículo está disponible aquí.
En un intento por comprender lo que nos …
Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou
What if food systems were designed not to maximize sales and accumulation, but to meet needs fairly within ecological limits? In Thessaloniki, Greece, a range of grassroots food initiatives have emerged over the last fifteen years, shaped by …
Di Maxwell
What happens when communities lose too much local capability? Di Maxwell shares the story of The Old Packhouse Market Project in the far north of Aotearoa (New Zealand), which began as an effort to secure and protect a …
Priscilla Claeys and Jasber Singh
To what extent do spirituality and religion support or impede movement building? How do food sovereignty activists navigate their own spiritual and religious lives and place-based practices in the transnational movement? Agroecology Now!‘s Priscilla …
Aseem Shrivastava
Building on the critique of the rights of nature discourse in part I of this essay, Aseem Shrivastava shows how the rights discourse collapses under scrutiny, (re)producing anthropocentrism ironically at odds with its own goals. He traces …
Aseem Shrivastava
This essay interrogates the “rights of nature” discourse, arguing that it extends one of modernity’s most anthropocentric concepts—individual rights—onto nature rather than questioning the framework of rights itself. Drawing on Raimon Panikkar’s cosmotheandric vision, Martin Buber’s …
Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari
In light of the planetary polycrisis, it is time to challenge the dominant strand of Western thought that asserts only humans possess rights and that other species exist solely for human benefit. In their contribution …
Riza Annisa Anggraeni
This article was originally published by Icarus Complex on June 16, 2026.
Kasepuhan Gelar Alam, a centuries-old indigenous community in West Java, practices food and energy sovereignty through micro-hydro power, biodiversity-rich rice farming, and traditional granaries. The …