ACT JUST projects in this area span both rural and urban food supply, access and distribution issues, gender politics, the effects of "heritagization" of food and the imposition of intellectual property rights, as well as farmers' and peasants' rights to save seeds, protect agricultural diversity, and participate in democratic decision-making about the future of food.
Seed Sovereignty in Central and Eastern Europe
Researcher: Guntra Aistara
The politics of gender and climate change in post-neoliberal Nicaragua
Researcher: Noémi Gonda, PhD candidate
Ecological entrepreneurship in the conservation of a peri-urban agrarian landscape
Researcher: Gerda Jonasz, PhD 2015
Resilience at the margins: Stories of seed practices in the city gardens of Havana City, Cuba
Researcher: Emily Dowding-Smith, MESPOM 2011
Developing Agroenvironmental Policies: Interactions Between Polish People and the State
Researcher: Lenore Ethington, MESPOM 2011