Alain Coulombel

Jul 2, 2024 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Alain Coulombel |Madeleine Sallustio |Cléa Fache |Orestes Kolokouris

The agriculture sector is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the EU. As the world gets hotter and droughts become more common, it is necessary to make farming practices more ecologically sustainable. In Catalonia, a community-driven initiative has produced a successful case of ecologically aware agriculture, centred around the principles of degrowth. At the sound of the bell, forty people set aside their seeds and tools to mount the dirt slope to a shaded garden.

Jan 26, 2024 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Benjamin Joyeux |Viktoria Hubareva |Alain Coulombel |Madeleine Sallustio

Society’s fatal dependence on artificial fertiliser has its roots in the industrial revolution and the western world’s search for food security. Today we are on the brink of another breakthrough in human nutrition: but as history shows, new food technologies have unforeseen consequences. Food comes first in the order of humanity’s needs. Then come not only morals (Brecht), but also all the subtleties of advanced gastronomy.