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Agroecology – A promising alternative to the Biodiversity crisis in Agriculture and Industrial Food Systems

Agroecology builds biodiversity into agriculture and food systems and should be a focus of global biodiversity conservation efforts as if lives and nature depend on it – because they do. The world’s nations are currently …

Putting Indigenous knowledge into practice for climate change: the Tribal Adaptation Menu

Indigenous knowledge offers invaluable insights for how to approach climate change. This article describes a tool called the Tribal Adaptation Menu that provides a set of concrete, practical strategies, approaches and tactics for how to …

“Spirituality is deeply anti-systemic”: An interview with Indigenous Thinker Antonio Gonzalez from the Aj Mayon Collective in Guatemala

In this article, part of our Food Sovereignty and Spirituality series, indigenous thinker and activist Antonio Gonzalez from Guatemala talks about the importance of spirituality in Indigenous Peoples struggles to recover and affirm their identity …

Ecofeminism, agroecology,  food sovereignty and African philosophy: Exploring values in contemporary social movements 

This article is written by Frederique Bosveld, Masters student in International Development Studies specialising in Inclusive Innovation, Communication, and Development at Wageningen University (WUR). African philosophy Preface by Birgit Boogaard. Birgit teaches courses on African …

‘You can’t manage what you can’t feel’: Finding new ways to assess diverse and novel wheat varieties

In this blog, AgroecologyNow researcher Chris Maughan shares his reflections about the creative ways in which the South West Grain Network (UK) works with different actors along the supply chain to recreate localised grain systems …

“La espiritualidad ha sido un adhesivo común”: Entrevista a Paul Nicholson, de La Vía Campesina

Nuestros colegas, Priscilla Claeys y Jasber Singh, están iniciando una nueva serie como parte de la columna Agroecología en movimiento para arrojar luz sobre un aspecto poco explorado de la transformación del sistema alimentario: la …

What does feminism have to do with the food you eat? Agroecology is not agroecology without feminism

Agroecology is gaining steam around the world as an alternative to the industrial food system. However, it is often adopted as a technical fix, employed as a set of techniques and tools, rather than a …