Local Knowledge Networks

Climate Justice

Climate change is forcing economic transitions among the poorest sectors and will accelerate the shift from self-consumption agriculture to other forms of underpaid labor in urban centers. This has serious implications for increased food and ecosystem vulnerability. In the urgency of a broader debate around climate justice, over the coming months, More of Us will address the relationships woven by a variety of initiatives in the territory towards self-management and food sovereignty. Stories that move away from the paradigm of development, permanent growth and its agro-industrial machinery, while weaving interspecific approaches to the reproduction of life from situated knowledge in the Global South. …

The Return of the Herons

by: Tona Kinich

In an area that stands in contrast to the urbanized megalopolis, planting chinampas in the South of Mexico City is an act of territorial and epistemic defense, defying imposed development.

No global climate justice without global epistemic justice

by: Nicolás Pradilla

Image: Water harvesting pot in San Sebastián de las Flores, Oaxaca. Retaining as much rainwater as possible brings many environmental, health and economic benefits. It contributes to the infiltration of water into groundwater and the regeneration of soils. Photograph by Nicolás Pradilla. Climate change is forcing economic transitions among the poorest sectors and will accelerate … No global climate justice without global epistemic justice

Water Tigers. Guardians of the Amazon Jungle

by: RuidoSara Zuluaga García

By protecting the forest in the Ticoya reserve, Ticuna, Cocama, and Yagua hunters are collectively pursuing sustainability and food sovereignty