Environmental for Food Justice

Romanian agro-pastoral community reclaims common lands THE RECOMMONIZATION OF PROPERTY IN EUROPE Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | October 20, 2013 As a co-inhabitant of the 80,000-acre common lands of the Sangre de Cristo land grant ( merced) in Colorado, I am directly and acutely aware of the importance that place-based cultures hold for the protection of closed access to ancestral landscapes. Tragically, many of these ancestral common lands have been lost due to forcible conversion to the public domain or the incessant enclosures of private property and capitalist mal development. There are thousands of place-based cultural heritage landscapes around the planet and in nearly every case a growing social movement seeking to restore the enclosed common[s]. These campaigns have predominantly been grounded in the struggles of indigenous peoples in the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Asia, and the European common property tradition has largely been eclipsed by privatization and the ecologic...