Alim M Bandara
The Tëduray, Lambangian and Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples of southern Philippines have been struggling to restore their customary self-governance system and strengthen guardianship of their ancestral territories. Alim Bandara writes about the Timuay Justice and Governance (TJG) system …
Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld
Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld trace a worldwide network of communities healing soil and reweaving relationships between people and land.
This brown, dirty stuff beneath our feet is in fact teeming with life and …
Halwest Karim
Originally published by Local Futures on March 31, 2026.
Across Kurdistan, the village has not been just a place of settlement; it has been a living ecological system, a web of deep interconnections among people, land, seeds, animals, …
Ashish Kothari
Originally published by Meer on 13 May 2026.
Grassroots movements from across the Global South gather in Indonesia to confront war, inequality, and ecological collapse through collective alternatives.
Hope. Esperanza. Harapan. These words were frequently invoked by …
Pooja Kishinani and Satakshi Gupta
An interview with visual artist Anuja Dasgupta, whose practice sits at the intersection of eco-art, ethnobotany and community. Using plant-based emulsions, cameraless photography, and repurposed wood, she creates art that refuses to represent the land, …
Abdul Semakula
The climate crisis is a listening crisis. We’ve lost the human capacity to hear what the web of life in our places is telling us. A community in Kampala is rebuilding, in an urban context, the cultural infrastructure …
Najma Mohamed
This article was originally published by LSE Blogs on 10 March 2026.
In an era defined by the converging threats of climate change and biodiversity loss, staggering inequality, and decaying democratic trust, how do we reweave the bonds …
This article was originally published by The Gaia Foundation.
Two communities in Southeast Zimbabwe’s Bikita district came together to map their ancestral territory and seasonal calendar, in the first stage of a process learnt from the Colombian Amazon. When …
Ecosystem Restoration Communities
Originally published by ERC in March 2025.
The rural community of Matera in southern Italy’s Basilicata region has a deep connection to the land. But over the past decades the community has faced mounting challenges that have …
Robbie Blake
Originally published by ARC2020 on 20 February 2026.
How accessible are conversations around transition? As we at ARC2020 deepen our longstanding work to support agroecology and food sovereignty, with a focus this year on the right to food …
Jorge Garcia-Arias and Jorge Guardiola
The escalating crisis of capitalism/(mal)development has produced a civilizational polycrisis permeating every aspect of life. In the face of these profound, structural and destructive changes, the ‘pluriverse’ — a product of blooming and radical imaginations …
Jorge Garcia-Arias y Jorge Guardiola
An English translation of this article is available here. // Una traducción al inglés de este artículo está disponible aquí.
Este artículo fue originalmente publicado como capítulo en el libro Economía Inclusiva. Conceptos Básicos …