Agroteca: Shared Tools for Our Food Sovereignty

Founded in 2010, El Departamento de la Comida has gone through various stages in its development: first as a community-based agricultural project that distributed products from various farms (2010-2012); a shop and restaurant (2012-2017); coordinator of solidarity brigades for the recovery of farms after Hurricane María (2017-2018); and its current iteration as a non-profit organization that fights for food sovereignty in Puerto Rico as an alternative agency that supports agroecological projects. For this occasion, El Departamento de la Comida was invited to make a pop-up installation of La Agroteca, its resource library located in the San Salvador neighborhood in Caguas, Puerto Rico. This intervention has a sample of its three collections: locally made agricultural tools, local seeds and educational materials.