it will probably come as no surprise after Hurricane Maria that Puerto Rico is home to robust series of local anti-capitalist and environmental movements, and this local agricultural shift is but one facet of those movements. there’s also a very strong series of local/solarpunk-style renewables projects which have developed around the island, some of which is being done with the backing of the government, but a lot of which is the work of municipal movements of individuals filling in where the government either can’t or won’t