Cultivating biodiversity: Peasant women in India

In the Deccan region of India, over 60,000 women peasants are feeding their families, their culture and their pride with biodiverse farming practices. Their knowledge and successes have reached across national and institutional borders, and they have received recognition from around the world. It is the year 2003 in Andhra Pradesh, India. A group of … Read more

Poverty alleviation – Dignity, ecological growth or just money?

While everybody is talking about a “green economy”, we still seem to be missing a critique of the concept. However hard the term has tried to appear different, many people still feel uncomfortable with it. How can we ensure that the new “green economy” is not just a new “greed economy”? Year: 2009; venue: Copenhagen. … Read more