By Jen Scott, A Growing Culture
The weekly #HUNGERFORJUSTICE Broadcast Series lays the building blocks for a post-COVID food system. Watch the recording of our first episode: The Intersection of Gender Equality and Agroecology with Seno Tsuhah and Wekoweu Akole Tsuhah, moderated by Jen Scott.
By Landworkers' Alliance Staff, Landworkers Alliance
FLAME is made up of young people who believe that the way we produce food and eat it can be a solution to creating a better world.
By Colin Anderson, Agroecology Now!
This new open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology in transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems focusing on power, politics and governance.
By Paulo Petersen, Denis Monteiro, Agroecology Now!
Agroecology is archaic, anarchic, and utopian – of course it is and thank goodness! In the final post of this three-part series, Paulo Petersen and Denis Monteiro push back against the arguments often made against agroecology.
By Agroecology Now Staff, Agroecology Now!
From the acceleration of the climate crisis, the dangerous decline of biodiversity and Covid-19 to the sustained and committed work of social movements to raise agroecology’s profile – agroecology is now gaining recognition and momentum as an alternative to a failing food system.
By Alberto Alonso-Fredejas, Delphine Ortega-Espès, Martin Drago, Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Transnational Institute
The promotion of ‘junk agroecology’ initiatives opens up the possibility of greater greenwashing of socially and environmentally destructive forms of production, and more deeply entrenches the unjust dynamics which have led to the current crises.
By Paulo Petersen, Denis Monteiro, Agroecology Now!
To break the bonds of dependence on capital is the objective of agriculture organized according to an explicitly oriented approach to remunerating labor and ensuring the ecological reproduction of the means of production. Agroecology is this approach.
By Paulo Petersen, Denis Monteiro, Agroecology Now!
More than ever, public support for healthy food production and distribution shows itself as a win-win strategy that is indispensable for combining long-standing social and economic challenges, now aggravated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
By Irmak Ertör, Transnational Institute
Birlik is building new connections between consumers and Small-Scale Fisheries that are accessible to people of all economic backgrounds, while protecting traditional fisher cultures, and providing an alternative vision of just, sustainable, fisheries.
By Rob Wallace, Arie Kurniawaty, Moayyad Bsharat, Paula Gioia, Sai Sam Kham, Transnational Institute
How can we begin to understand the complex relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and our food systems? How is this crisis impacting communities and transformative strategies for a future founded on international solidarity, agroecology and food sovereignty?
By Colin Tudge, Oxford Real Farming Conference
Food culture means a diet and a cuisine geared to whatever is produced by Enlightened Agriculture – which in most countries, and certainly in Britain, should cause no hardship at all. Though first we would need to re-learn how to cook.
By Sinead Fortune, Oxford Real Farming Conference
Growing your own food has seen a resurgence on a scale that has been compared to the Dig For Victory campaigns of the second world war. But with so few places selling seed, how can you take advantage of this planting season and get your own veggie garden under way?