My project addresses the challenges of overcoming monoculture. It explores alternative production practices as counter-approaches to the global shift towards industrial and specialized agriculture. My current research focuses on the rise of organic farming in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, understanding it, among other aspects, as a response to the crisis-prone nature of the prevailing production regime of monocultures.
In addition to the production-oriented approaches adopted throughout the MaMoGH project, my research takes into account the socio-cultural contexts of agricultural production and its actors. In this sense, organic farming is considered not only as a method of production, but also as a social experiment and a political practice, embedded in broader social movements. The study aims to examine the social and cultural dimension of organic farming, paying particular attention to how organic farmers in West Germany established knowledge networks and forged forms of community and solidarity.
