Georges is a French-Puerto Rican activist and researcher on agroecology and agroforestry. His work focuses on the design of resilient food systems and the restoration of peasant farming systems in the aftermath of natural disasters in places of Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He is currently based as a researcher at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University, in England. Additionally, he collaborates with several food collectives around the world, including Cultivate! in the Netherlands, Organización Boricuá/CLOC-Via Campesina in Puerto Rico, and SOCLA and CELIA in Latin America.
A Puerto Rican recipe for food sovereignty
Georges Félix tells why farmers in the Caribbean are turning down dependency and taking up the yoke. The foods we choose to consume and the strategies we use to produce