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Featured Articles
Standout stories from The Foodscapes Collective.
Stories and insights from the world of agriculture.
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Farmer Profile: Christine Jodloman of The Philippines
In this farmer profile, Christine Jodloman reflects on family farming, women’s leadership, and how growing mangoes, rice, and coconuts shaped her commitment to rural communities in the Philippines.
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Forest Grove Farmers Market: A Hub for Culture and Community
The Adelante Mujeres Forest Grove Farmers Market is where community and food intersect. Through trainings and community-centered support, the organization helps Latine families in Oregon cultivate livelihoods and reconnect with their roots.
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When Weeds Are Actually a Sign of Healthy Soil
Some of the weeds you work hardest to remove are sending you a message—they are growing precisely because your soil is doing well. This article explores how species like pigweed, lamb’s quarters, and purslane reveal underlying fertility.
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Farmer Profile: Leonor Rojas Murcía of Colombia
Leonor Rojas Murcía has transformed her seven-hectare farm into a diverse agricultural system focused on cacao, symbolizing family legacy and community peace. As a leader in ASOACASAN, she empowers women in agriculture and fosters biodiversity.
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What Your Weeds Are Trying to Tell You
Weeds are often treated as a nuisance to be removed, but they can also be read as signals from the landscape itself. “Reading weeds” is a way understand what is happening in the soil.
Perspectives on food, cuisine, and everything in between.
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More Than a Cookbook: How Mujeres Tz’utujiles Preserves Culture Through Food
More than a collection of recipes, Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk explores how food preserves culture, language, and identity. This review examines the cookbook’s recipes, bilingual design, artwork, and the remarkable story of resilience behind its creation.
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Five Achievable Policy Solutions for Food Waste and What You Can Do to Help
Reducing food waste presents an opportunity to strengthen food security, lower emissions, and build a more sustainable and resilient food system through practical policy solutions and collective action.
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How Spatial Storytelling is Redefining Culinary Emotion
3D artist Léo Mallet explores the future of digital gastronomy through spatial storytelling, using Gaussian splatting to transform dishes into immersive, interactive experiences.
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Food Design Lab Lisbon: Where Creativity Meets the Purpose of Food
The Food Design Lab Lisbon is reimagining what food can be. Co-founder Ricardo Bonacho shares with us how this creative studio balances food as entertainment and food as a purpose.
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What Do People Eat at the End of the World? Food in Post-Apocalyptic Films
Food in post-apocalyptic movies reveal themes of power, class inequality, survival, and community. Professor Chris Broodryk tells us how these stories reflect deeper social realities.
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Reclaiming Land: Lessons from Casiavera Movement
David E. Gilbert’s Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land presents a well-researched and insightful account of land reclamation in Casiavera, Indonesia.
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