Chinampas are the Future
MAD7, Environment & Sustainability, Leadership, Culture, Activism, Pablo Usobiaga,
Pablo Usobiaga of Arca Tierra believes the future lies in the past.
He works directly campesinos—peasant farmers—to recover Mexico’s 4,000-year-old chinampas: floating gardens that once fed 1.5 million people. Today, less than 10% of them survive.
Campesinos are their custodians. Some of society’s most overlooked workers, campesinos are in fact on the frontlines of our climate crisis. As Pablo explains, they are guardians of critical knowledge. Learning from them is how we’ll walk ourselves back from the ecological cliff.
