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Adam Calo
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Assistant Professor | land and food governance | Land Food Nexus Newsletter: https://adamcalo.substack.com/about | Landscapes podcast: https://landscapes.libsyn.com/

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Who wants to push the Landscapes podcast to 10k downloads?

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October 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Abundance discourse
A wicker basket brimming with sweet chestnuts A gazillion chestnuts on the ground The chestnut tree and its spiky offerings
October 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The energy transition forces new struggles over land. Latest from the Landscapes Podcast:

Listen: plinkhq.com/i/1552882054...

@greenprofgreen.bsky.social "existential politics" in action?
August 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Teaser for the upcoming Landscapes Podcast episode.

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August 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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New Landscapes episode on how the green transition meets landed power coming soon! Also a bit of Abundance critique.
July 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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A reminder of how soil is prepared for intensive strawberry production. 💀
An old snap from fieldwork in California circa 2015.

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June 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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17000km on the cargo bike
the e-bike parked in front of a roman ruin the bike in front of a patch of forest
May 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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The school parking lot is getting out of hand.
A gazillion bikes lined up on the street next to the school entrance. A gazillion bikes lined up on the street next to the school entrance.
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Strategies for Influencing Land Policies (In the EU)

Upcoming webinar April 23 | Online

us02web.zoom.us/j/87919258625
A flyer advertising the event with pictures of the four speakers. Flyer text: Nyeleni ECA, TNI, ECVC, and the Access to Land network invite you to a discussion on how social movements can influence land policies, focusing on land observatories as policy tools and the need for land regulation. The discussion will also explore links between land regulation and food sovereignty in the ECA region and prepare for the 2026 International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. Attila Szocs, Access to Land Network Presentation of the proposal for a European Observatory on Agricultural Land Daniel Long, dairy farmer Defending a community land observatory in Ireland Adam Calo, Radboud University The need for farmland regulation and land governance examples from Europe Morgan Ody, Via Campesina Preparing for the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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16k on the cargo bike.
A scuffed odometer reads 16226km The all black bakfiets.nl cruiser parked underneath a bridge with typical European high density homes in the back.
March 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Conference : Agroecological transition in Europe
March 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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This article has a Garrett Hardin-esque "Image a pasture..." vibe, where the politics of land use and market demand are mostly ignored.

A land sparing argument in disguise.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
highlighted text from the academic article in question: reads "Consider two hypothetical but plausible restoration programs in agricultural landscapes, assessed using real-world data and preliminary, simplified analyses." When your argument is based on a hypothetical laden with politics, you are in trouble.
February 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Land reform and sustainable food transformations, a discussion hosted by the Land & Agrifood Research Collective.
#foodstudies

Thursday, Feb 20
Where: on Zoom, please RSVP
In 2003, 2015, and 2016, the Scottish Parliament passed a series of Acts to bolster the power of community orgs to buy and repurpose privately-held property for community use and sustainable agriculture and land management. In theory, it sounds brilliant, mobilizing a variety of legal tools for the public good. In practice, how has it played out? What does it tell us about land reform opportunities in the Global North? Professor Adam Calo has written and spoken a great deal about this topic as part of his broader work on the barriers that prevent transitions to a more just, sustainable, and ecologically resilient food system. Join us for an exciting conversation!
February 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Awaiting those Harper Letter signatories to get together for a second go around.
a puppet frog staring out at the rain, knowing what they seek will never come.
February 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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15k on the e-bike.
a cargo e-bike loaded with a weeks worth of groceries parked in front of the farmers market. typical grey european skies . An odometer reads 15000 kilometers.
December 14, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Far superior to putting one of these things in a car.
#bakfiets
a mid-sized needle leaf tree for the purposes of holiday spirit sitting upright in the cargo box of a two-wheeler cargo bike. The black bike sits parked along side a road with typical Dutch row houses.
December 8, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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Structure vs agency debate resolved.

I never biked before moving to the Netherlands and now:
A fully loaded black cargo bike (pitbull, kid, groceries) cruising down a two lane protected bike lane.
November 23, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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Parking lot.
A row of bikes on a Dutch waterfront, including the all black cargobike.
November 16, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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nearing 15000km now
the bakfiets.nl long cruiser repping an alba organic sticker. cargo e-bike odometer reads 14061
November 13, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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14k on the cargo bike 🚲
14k on the odometer an e-cargo bike
October 5, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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Proofs arrived. Will be the introduction to this special issue:🧪#foodstudies

online.ucpress.edu/elementa/pag...

Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging
contests to property regimes in the Global North
An abstract for the above article: Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form of food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical and geographical diversity, land relations have a tendency to become normalized through law, custom, and practice. In particular, the exclusionary private “ownership model” of property has come to be deeply entrenched in legal systems worldwide, particularly in the Global North. The power of this normalization is evidenced, for example, in how research and practice aimed at reshaping food systems from grassroots movement, policy-level, or biophysical perspectives often omit the role of land relations in bringing about agricultural sustainability and agrarian change. Understanding land relations as static thus potentially constrains or directs the kinds of sustainable agriculture and food transformations that can take place. Entrenched norms of property drastically limi
September 20, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Proofs arrived for this forthcoming book chapter in "Postcapitalist Countrysides." 🧪 #foodstudies
A screen capture of the first words of new book chapter: Some of the most powerful postcapitalist logics, imaginaries and social projects owe their origins in food. Nothing could be more core to concerns of the means of production than produce itself. Control over the basis for social reproduction offers a power of self-determination that confronts the disciplinary force of the wage relation. That is why concepts like food sovereignty, agroecology and re-peasantisation have seized the imagination of post and anti-capitalist movements worldwide
September 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Good job, tomato. An example for us all.
September 8, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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Running away balloon meme featuring the seductive pursuit of decoupling held back by displacement.
August 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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I’ve written a review of this book coming soon to The Journal of Peasant Studies.
August 14, 2024 at 2:20 PM