ROOTS-IAPC

About us

We are a digital publication that addresses environmental, agroecological, cultural, technological and social-popular issues. We see a world without poverty, exclusion, discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity or religion, where good living practices are widespread, natural resources are used in conjunction with the preservation of biodiversity and food production is economically fair, as well as nutritious and organic. 

We are a forum open to everyone! We publish an article every week, free of charge, written or translated into Portuguese, English, Spanish and Chinese.

ROOTS is one of the projects of "Baobab", the International Association for Popular Cooperation, IAPC is a not-for-profit strategic platform for popular communities and their various economic, social and cultural organizations, that facilitate coordination, exchange and solidarity between peoples. It also promotes education and training, technology development, technical support, research, and any other methodologies to improve the capacity-building of urban and rural systems and facilitate the access of human communities to financial resources for locally managed projects aimed at eradicating poverty, promoting sovereignty, and enhancing socio-environmental equalities. 

Our publications are fuelled by the contributions of our partners and our own experiences within Baobab. Our aim is to promote cooperation and the exchange of knowledge between communities and organisations, and to encourage dialogue between rural and urban knowledge. We want to contribute to the historic project of transition to a new model of production, distribution and consumption, based on agroecology and the solidarity economy.

Why ROOTS?

We are living in a moment where the environmental crisis, in the context of a global crisis, is a threat to life on our planet. It is therefore essential to build alternatives for the sustainability of human communities, the production of healthy food, the eradication of poverty and the effective protection of the environment and natural resources. In view of this, agroecology presents itself as a tool for the defence of the land, territorial and socio-environmental rights of traditional peoples and communities, and of peripheral and vulnerable populations in cities.

Agroecology is a form of agriculture made up of various rural and urban practices, disputed in social class struggles, and systematised scientifically as general principles of a production system, understood in the multiple dimensions of the relationship between human beings and nature through work.

At this historical moment, crossed by structural contradictions, the multimedia digital publication ROOTS emerges as a platform to strengthen the creation of alternatives for production and community life based on agroecology. We are also open to contributions from all individuals and collectives who are part of building a just world, one of solidarity, free from oppression, where human beings can fulfil their basic needs in balance with nature and in full freedom to develop our immense common creative capacity.