Mahmoudul Hassan
Faced with recurring human-elephant conflict, Hatikhuli Rong Hang village in Western Assam turned its commons into a dedicated elephant habitat. By sacrificing their claim over the landscape, Hatikhuli Rong Hang has proved that coexistence between Man and Animal …
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 …
Kseniia Popova
Anjos do Sertão (Angels of the Backlands) is a regenerative farm and non-profit in Canto do Buriti, Brazil, dedicated to the recovery of the Caatinga biome and the support of local communities. After years of building trust with …
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
This article was written in Spanish. Read the original article here.
In an attempt to understand what is happening to us—amidst the fiction that “anything goes” and the “every …
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 …
Pooja Kishinani and Satakshi Gupta
An interview with Yuri Tuma, a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist, researcher, and co-founder of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS) a Madrid-based institute working at the intersection of art, culture, and ecology. The IPS uses artistic …
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 …