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In this episode, we listen to Sergi Escribano. He's talking about his article 'Food commons'. You can read more about the topic covered by Sergi in the chapter 7 of Ecology and empowerment: https://f3e.asso.fr/ressource/ecology-and-empowerment/

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• #Host

  Ecology and Empowerment, a F3E Network podcast. Valencia, Spain, for local, smallholder agroecology.

• Sergi Escribano

  Hello, my name is Sergi Escribano, I'm an agronomist who was distaught rather than taught. Insofar as sometimes university distorts our way of perceiving the world, and we need to be aware of these limits because they shape our way of thinking. I'm currently working with a cooperative called Agencia Groa, which is part of a complex ecosystem in Valencia, Spain, including, for example, Empodera Consultores, as well as Catedra Tierra Ciudadana, and the Comunspoles Association. All these initiatives from different perspectives are trying to put knowledge to the benefit of social transformation. We put forward the following topic as part of this process : food, commons, social control, local governance, and ecofeminism as drivers in the ecological transition of urban food systems. Local and urban food systems are deeply vulnerable since they are highly dependent on fossil fuels. U rban environments, as we can easily imagine, aren't places where we produce food. However, they are places where a lot of food is consumed. In all solidarity projects which relate to agriculture, food, crops, and also the profits generated by agricultural activities in rural communities, I think we should be trying to value grassroots knowledge. Which is deeply connected to this agroecological perspective and minimizes dependence on external sources of energy, because the day those external sources disappear, whether due to funding, economic or human capital, local communities need to feel that these food systems belong to them. They need to have been designed with the participation of these same local communities, that they are empowered and prepared to maintain these systems that have received this external financial aid. Because what's at stake here? It's to keep existing in the long run, to be profitable, and not to fall into the trap of international cooperation financing, project after project, food systems which ultimately are not sustainable. What we observe is that as soon as international cooperation disappears, the project collapses and the local community with it. Read more about Sergi Escribano and his article food commons in Ecology and empowerment