What Thessaloniki’s Alternative Food Networks Teach Us About Degrowth [REDWeb article]

[Pooja Kishinani]

Dear All, 

Our latest article on REDweb may be of interest- 

Beyond the Supermarket: What Thessaloniki’s Alternative Food Networks Teach Us About Degrowth by Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou

What if food systems were designed not to maximize sales and accumulation, but to meet needs fairly within ecological limits? In Thessaloniki, Greece, a range of grassroots food initiatives have emerged over the last fifteen years, shaped by the debt crisis and the related austerity, unemployment, social crisis and distrust in dominant institutions. These alternative food networks demonstrate what food systems can look like when organized around care, democracy and sufficiency rather than profit and endless growth.

Read the article here- https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/beyond-the-supermarket-what-thessalonikis-alternative-food-networks-teach-us-about-degrowth/ 

This article was originally published by degrowth.info on June 2, 2026.

In solidarity, 

pooja 

curator, Radical Ecological Democracy