We also went to great lengths to get this disseminated in the press and got about 40 media outlets to reference it, including big ones like Politico and Le Monde. The timing helped too, as it was published days before the 2021 World Conservation Congress in Marseille

It's always a bit of a mystery why some papers get picked up more than others. I think this one resonated bc it addresses something that practitioners had been looking at for a while ("why is it that conservation works betters when IPLCs lead it?") but long only had circumstantial evidence for

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Building on the keynotes, the 2nd session is a roundtable on 'Human Ecology meets Environmental Justice'. We'll be joined by Matthieu Berger (UCLouvain) and
Vasna Ramasar (Lund University) to continue and deepen the discussion in a more intimate setting! Join us: www.societyforhumanecology.org

We argue that European farmers have lots to learn from the long histories of Indigenous struggle for environmental and food justice in Latin America, including political autonomy, food sovereignty, cultural self-recognition, counter-hegemonic knowledge production models and collective stewardship

In other words, the farming crisis is European coloniality coming home. Today's agri-food system is perhaps the most visible expression of plantations' legacies at the heart of the West (extreme inequalities, modern-day slavery, extractive land usage, globalized trade, racialized violence)

A system where land, labor, & capital only profit some, where people are denigrated as inferior, based on codification of difference and on the marginalisation of their knowledge and where landscapes & crops are modeled on sameness, where else have we seen this? Right, in the global South...

Farmers in Europe today are faced with falling income, elite capture, volatile markets, reduced public support, rupture with society, increasing suicide rates, eroding rural identity & loss of sovereignty, to name a few, while being perceived as responsible for the demise of the rural countryside

In a nutshell, we argue that using decolonial theoy can help make sense of today's farming crisis in Europe. It is deeply rooted in the concentration of power and knowledge brought about by agricultural modernization and in its social-environmental consequences

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