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In this text, I reflect on the relationship between terroir and territory as part of a critical settler practice of sourdough bread-baking in the prairies of Treaty 4 lands, Saskatchewan. I propose that a framework of terroir-as-territory is one way of conceiving of and practising decolonialization within land-based food systems. Writing through conversation, reflection, and provocation, I consider the place of fermentation practices—specifically wheat fermentation—in settler and Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan, where fermentation (the chemical changes brought on by microbes) embodies simultaneously the processes of preservation and transformation. As I write, I draw from my ongoing curatorial research into contemporary art and fermentation as well as my long-standing interest in food security and food justice, pivoting, in this short textual performance, into food writing and criticism as activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The business world expects from the legal system a secure, predictable regulatory legal framework and an efficient, independent mechanism to resolve conflicts which may place it in confrontation with public administrations. For the resolution of conflicts taken against the public administration, the judicial system offers an independent mechanism but it is slow and does not always have the precise technical knowledge required. For this reason, alternative means of resolving conflicts must be explored. We will therefore analyse the advantages and limits of adversarial means (arbitration) as well as consensual means (conciliation and mediation) in regard to dealing with public administrations and opt for reenforcing the option of administrative appeals before independent bodies. We shall also analyse the option of intrajudicial mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The limitations of institutional bodies responsible for administering justice affect the coexistence and social peace. Therefore, contemporary societies have delineated mechanisms to negotiate conflicts and prevent these are expressed through other ways, such as violence. Develop concerted ways that increase social cohesion is a requirement of democratic society. Mediation Electronics is presented as an appropriate instrument to perform procedures that expand access to justice to citizens among them. This paper is part of research promoted by the University of Salamanca on electronic mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]