By Chris Maughan, Agroecology Now!
In food and agricultural systems, there will always be a place for measurement, but in knowledge-intensive terrain of agroecological grain production and artisanal baking there must also be space for reincorporating what we feel.
By Andrés Bernal Sánchez, Juanita Rico, Open Democracy
Agroecological processes, like the ones promoted by this exemplary project, are an essential part of the reconstruction of a local, balanced, fair and sustainable economy, which will keep young people in the region and contribute to a transformation of the countryside where the values of sustainability and food sovereignty prevail over an extractivist tradition that has wreaked havoc in the region for too long.
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Recognising the damage caused by synthetic fertiliser, the SFT and others in the sustainable farming sector have long been advocating a switch toward more agroecological farming systems.
By Diana Lilia Trevilla Espinal, Isabel Álvarez Vispo, Agroecology Now!
On International Women’s day, March 8, 2022, we launched an animation called ‘For feminist agroecologies’ that invites you to ask yourself questions about your food, and about what food system you want to contribute to.
By Oliver Moore, Ashley Parsons, ARC2020
Yet again, now is supposedly not the time to do the very things that would reduce our exposure to destructive inputs. There is a fear that this terrible war in Ukraine will give European business-as-usual forces one more excuse turn the EU Green Deal into that potentially perfect but always elusive pie in the sky.
By Vicki Hird, Sustainable Food Trust
There are exciting opportunities for using land on the edge of cities – the peri-urban (areas adjacent to urban settlements) fringe – to provide more agroecologically produced food and to connect urban and rural economies through food growing.
By Lorena Cotza, Ouafa Haddioui, Open Democracy
Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local producers.
By Chris Maughan, Dominic Amos, Agroecology Now!
However we proceed, we very much consider the plant bioindicator method alongside a host of other tools for deepening our connection with land.
By Diana Negrin, Esperanza Project
All had come to Las Margaritas to attend a free intensive agroecology workshop led by Gerardo Ruiz Smith, a Mexican regenerative agriculture expert, and coordinated by the Wixarika Research Center as the first stone of a long-term project that seeks to restore and regenerate the desert in what many have come to call the “botanical garden” of Wirikuta.
By Alejandra Guzman Luna, Agroecology Now!
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
By Staff, IATP, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Agroecological approaches are anchored in human rights, rooted in culturally and ecologically diverse knowledge systems, and have the potential to build the community resilience necessary to deal with both the forces of climate change and corporate control.
By Priscilla Claeys, Jasber Singh, Agroecology Now!
What roles does spirituality play in food sovereignty struggles? To what extent do spirituality and religion support or impede movement building?