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The kitchen table is where people from different backgrounds meet, exchange, design, cook, eat and imagine a future of food together. In this section you will find profiles of people who have joined this kitchen table as well as tools, videos, reports, podcasts, videos or recipes that they have developed in collaboration with others. This Archive/Table is composed of four different (main) groups that interact and intersect: chefs, producers, scientists and creatives. Click on any of the sides of the table to read more about what's been cooking.

14.6.2023

Profile

Gabriela Garcia

Ecologist

Postdoctoral researcher exploring the intersection between plants and people. As an ecologist, she is particularly interested in how ecosystem dynamics on farms influence human decision-making and how those decisions feed back to impact farm ecosystem dynamics. Through interdisciplinary and collaborative research, she aims to contribute to an agroecological transition that preserves biodiversity and promotes socioecological resilience in the face of a changing climate. She is currently involved as a postdoctoral resident researcher in Oaxaca, exploring different crop consortia to improve soil quality through the project “La Huerta Revuelta.”

The kitchen is a social place, a com­mon place to gather and connect. It is a place to share not only food, but stories, ideas, aspirations and initiatives. Colaboratory Kitchen is an ongoing mobile and on-site project that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and cooks together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities. A response to the lack of connection between disciplines that are key for new alternatives towards more sustain­able and just futures.

The questions at stake are: How do we bridge scientific and local knowledge? What kind of interdisciplinary projects can we create towards a better livelihood and ecological resilience of farmer communities? How can we conserve the environment and its biodiversity in balance with sustainable food production and pair local consumption to global demand?

We create a space for a trans-disciplinary community to grow and take action, by sharing and cooking futures together.

The project was initiated in 2016 as a collaboration between Cascoland and the Forefront Project (WUR, UNAM), a joint effort to design spaces and tools of communication and action towards strengthening socio-ecological bonds, south of the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. Now a days the scheme is being developed in three rural locations in Mexico: Santo Domingo Tomaltepex, Oaxaca, Xochimilco, Mexico City and Loma Bonita, Chiapas, as a collaboration with UNAM, local organizations and a range of collaborations from professionals in different disciplines.