Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán (1942-2023), shaped the history of agroecology as a science and as a movement. Eduardo Sevilla was an astute thinker, stood steadfast in solidarity with peasants and trained an entire generation of scholar …
Calling out the financial elephants in the room: Tackling the myth of scarcity to finance agroecological food system transformation
In this blog, Michel Pimbert lays out a slate of bold proposals to reframe discussions on how to finance agroecology to focus less on financial scarcity and more on the possibilities of abundance. Michel lays …
What’s next for Gaza’s food systems?
This blog, originally published in the Rooted Magazine, explores the systematic destruction of land, life and nature over the past agonising months, and the long-constructed vulnerabilities resulting from Israel’s policy of occupation, blockade and now …
Green Deal, farmers’ protests: we need new narratives to support food system transformation
In this statement, activist scholars show how the European Union’s current legislative response to waves of farmer protests across Europe is failing both farmers and society, in Europe and elsewhere. They identify the toxic narratives …
Agroecology: A Labor of Love
In this blog, Ayana Curran-Howes and Nils McCune at the UVM Institute for Agroecology explore what agroecology represents to the millions of workers that produce the food that humans eat. What kind of liberation does …
“The food sovereignty movement must be anti-caste”: An Interview with Dalit, Adivasi and other members of the Food Sovereignty Alliance in India
In this article, part of our Food Sovereignty and Spirituality series, members of the Food Sovereignty Alliance (FSA) in India share about their fight against the dominant Brahmanical patriarchal ideology which is at the root of the caste …
CSAs as spaces of care and self-exploitation: a feminist perspective from the UK
I have worked in Community Supported Agriculture for the last 15 years in the UK. Over the last year, I have combined this activity with CAWR’s MSc Programme in Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty. The …
Gaza’s Food Systems Under Siege
I recently visited Gaza, where I work with partners on transdisciplinary research called Gaza Foodways with over 160 women farmers and processors (members of the Urban Women Agripreneur Forum – UWAF). After two years of …