December 2015

Anibar and the fish on the roof

Anibar looks at us with peaceful but wide awake eyes. He is about forty years old and the founder of UrbaGrow, a small business of organic urban agriculture. We went to meet him in his office, a regular building in an urban area in the...

The road up to Kolkata

Walking the noisy, congested but colorful streets of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, it is like taking a trip back in time. Hold your breath before immersing yourself into the chaotic streets of the city where you have to swim among thousands of people crowding...

Cambodia, land of silence

(Thanks to Raffaella Rossi for the translation) Silence. A golden Buddha is shining right in front of me, almost lost in the darkness of the temple. I sit comfortable to better admire it, completely covered in darkness. The air is stale and filled with incense perfume....

Rapa Nui or Easter Island?

Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island [1] is usually described as a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but this time we want to describe it changing perspective. We can start writing something like this: Rapa Nui is the island in the...

Mujica’s Uruguay: an agro-smart country?

"Mujica is the best president we could have," says Pablo, "everyone knows his beautiful speech at Rio+20 Summitin 2012 but, then when it comes to making decisions at home, things are different.” In Uruguay, between 2000 and 2011, with supposedly left wing parties in charge,...

Water is not on sale

This is the story of a war, a war between people and political-economic interests, a war between those who see water as a common good and those who see it as a private and tradable good. This is the story of the water war in...

Ecuador on the march

The night we arrived in Quito on our taxi driver tells us that he has to drop us 200 meters from our hostel because the road is blocked by a demonstration against the latest laws proposed by the government taking inheritance and speculative gains. Driving...

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