Action for Solidarity Environment Equality and Diversity
For many years ASEED has been questioning large scale soy production in South America and the use of soy as animal feed in Europe. Even though the negative impact of that kind of intensive farming on people and nature has become more widely known in the past years, production and imports are still rising. As an extra danger WWF, Solidaridad and big corporations are greenwashing the use of soy by giving it a ‘sustainable label’.
ASEED’s commitment to embed intersectionality as an organising principle “The cause of the majority is the cause for all of us! It is all of our humanity that we seek to recover, the humanity of both ‘us and them’” Mamá D ASEED recognises the need to embed an intersectional approach … verder lezen
Written by one of our beloved reading group members, thank you! In this ASEED reading group session, we discussed the animal-human relationship in the context of food production. The three articles are all academic papers studying different perspectives related to animals in food production i.e. should they be involved? how … verder lezen
ASEED is continuing the bi-monthly themes. We are now saying goodbye to two months of focus on ’Alternatives to industrial agriculture’ and hello to the theme of “Degrowth”. Given the current global crisis we are facing, we in the collective, have found it ever more relevant to put degrowth on the … verder lezen
A Reflection: Causes of zoonotic diseases Covid-19 belongs to the category of zoonotic diseases like ebola, SARS, MERS and Zika. The increasing spread and persistence of these diseases over the past 20 years is not a matter of coincidences. In fact, our modern world encourages the transmission of harmful germs … verder lezen
“A policy that promises salvation from the present crisis can only lead to a proper social system if it is ecological”. – Abdullah Öcalan The event On the 23rd of February 2020, ASEED attended a workshop organized by Internationalist Commune of Rojava and Make Rojava Green Again campaign about the … verder lezen
Reading group // 29.01.2020 // Gender & Agriculture Women who dig – Chapter Uganda Enraged: Women and Nature Donna Andrews, Kiah Smith and M. Alejandra Morena Feminist agroecology for food sovereignty by Marta Soler, Marta Rivera and Irene García Roces “I decided to grow flowers. It was really experimental. … verder lezen
Here is our second episode of our ASEED podcast, related to our bi-monthly theme “Gender & Agriculture”. In the last two months we set up a reading group, a documentary night and a talk related to gender&agriculture / ecofeminism. Now our podcast is out again! For this reason we invited Annie and … verder lezen
Last December, some people from the ASEED team went to Catalonia for a youth exchange programme called GENERA (Gender Empowerment in Rural Areas). We learned a lot during the training and because of this we decided to share our experiences and insights we gained during theses days. In this report … verder lezen
Reading group // 17.12.2019 // Gender & Agriculture Vandana Shiva – Chapter 3 Women in Nature of Staying Alive „With the violation of nature is linked the violation and marginalization of women, especially in the Third World. Women produce and reproduce life not merely biologically, but also through their social … verder lezen
“Indigenous resistance is not a one-time event. It continually asks: What proliferates in the absence of empire? Thus, it defines freedom not as the absence of settler colonialism, but as the amplified presence of Indigenous life and just relations with human and nonhuman relatives, and with the earth.” – Nick … verder lezen