ABSTRACT
Veríssimo and Name, by focusing on community actions in the city of Dondo, in Mozambique, explore the practice of edible landscaping at the outdoor domestic spaces as a means of a silent popular resistance against marginalization, and household-community empowerment. They argue that through these practices production strategies are reorganized to assure livelihoods, food sovereignty and environmental quality in a process of spatial resistance. Veríssimo and Name explain that the diversified nature of Outdoor Domestic Spaces preserves a symbiotic human relationship with nature, which is fundamental to ensuring food sovereignty, the resource base for subsistence and the regeneration of natural life. Therefore, they invite landscape architects to learn from food knowledges that are ignored from the technical-instrumental rationality and disregarded by the professional practice and architecture/urban NGOs. They consider this crucial as they believe that such knowledges can initiate and support social processes that generate more socially and environmentally just human habitats. Crucially, Veríssimo and Name also argue that edible landscaping and the outdoor domestic space have a strong potential to contribute to struggles against hunger by supporting autonomous and self-organized forms of access to food and food availability for all whereas, if implemented in a wider scale, they can also be a response to the failure of the green revolution and a form of resistance to the predatory action of agroindustrial and extractivist capitalism.
