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 …
Embracing Critical Friendship for Agroecology Transitions
This article explains the notion of the critical friend, and discusses its value as an approach to systematizing a self-critical approach to our work as people interested in advancing agroecology and other aspects of social …
La espiritualidad es fundamental para construir solidaridad: Entrevista a Nettie Wiebe, de La Vía Campesina
En este artículo, que forma parte de nuestra serie sobre la soberanía alimentaria y la espiritualidad, Nettie Wiebe, una de las mujeres líderes de La Vía Campesina en Canadá, habla de la función de la …
‘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 …
Felipe, Las Chinampas y las políticas para la agroecología en la Ciudad de México
A Felipe le apasiona recuperar la calidad del agua alrededor de su chinampa, su pequeña parcela de tierra, como un primer paso para recuperar vida en el agroecosistema. Las chinampas eran islas artificiales flotantes hechas …
Felipe, las chinampas and policies for agroecology in Mexico City
Felipe is passionate about cleaning the water around his ‘chinampa’, his small plot of land surrounded by canals, as a first step to recovering life in the agroecosystem. The chinampas were floating beds made like …
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 …
Spirituality is key to building solidarity: An interview with La Via Campesina’s Nettie Wiebe
In this article, part our Food Sovereignty and Spirituality series, Nettie Wiebe, one of the women leaders of La Via Campesina based in Canada, talks about the role of spirituality in her life and in …
Weeds: What can they tell us about our soils?
What is a weed? We generally think of it as a ‘plant in the wrong place’. But what if we viewed these plants as signs of the ecology in which they are embedded? In this …
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
Alejandra Guzman Luna writes about agroecology and community feminism, drawing from her experience working in the Oaxacan Mixteca, Mexico. The notion of community feminism is a vital way to advance an agroecology that effectively nourishes …
“Spirituality has been a common glue”: An interview with La Via Campesina’s Paul Nicholson
Our colleagues, Priscilla Claeys and Jasber Singh, are launching a new series as part of the Agroecology in Motion column to shed light on an underexplored aspect of food system transformation: the role of spirituality …
The Stories We Trust : Regulating Genome Edited Organisms
In ongoing discussions about the regulation of genome edited organisms in the UK and the EU, existing regulation to prevent harm to human and planetary health is often portrayed as the ‘bad guy’ trying to …
Down with Innovation! Long live rights, agency and justice
“Innovation” is ubiquitous as a way to describe beneficial societal change. Yet, the innovation language is deeply tied to a technology-centric and top-down ways of thinking that shackles the imagination and limits the pathways for …
21st Century Agroecology
From online food retail to big ag-data, technology is creeping ever further into food and farming systems. In this blog Lynne Davis CEO of Open Food Network UK explores what it takes to shift the …
Linking food and feminisms: learning from decolonial movements
Feminisms that bring an anti-colonial, decolonial or indigenous perspective work to reconstitute non-hierarchical relationships among people, between people and nature, and through this shift, the relationship between people and their food.
Agroecology or Collapse Part III – Reclaiming the ‘archaic’, ‘anarchic’, and ‘utopian’ as the language of food system transformation
Agroecology is a struggle to overcome industrial agriculture and is simultaneously a practice, a science, and a movement. Detractors often criticize Agroecology saying it is archaic, anarchic, & utopian. Perhaps, paradoxically, this is where its …
Seeking New Agreements for Working with Nature through Enhancing Agricultural Biodiversity
In this first article in our new column, Agroecology in Motion: Nourishing Transformation, Patrick Mulvany, (HRF, CAWR), makes a call to radically foreground a more robust and transformative understanding of agricultural biodiversity, especially the need …
Announcing “Agroecology in Motion: Nourishing Transformation”
Articles written for Agroecology in Motion: Nourishing Transformation are written to stimulate reflection and learning, inform political-practical work on agroecology and move people to action. This first article in the column lays the groundwork for …
Agroecology or Collapse Part II – Democratizing Food Systems and Breaking the Bonds of Food Empires
Thinking that the agroecology movement is limited to producing organics in a “differentiated niche” is a mistake. Its focus is to redirect agriculture according to logics that oppose and subvert the capitalist market. In Part …
Agroecology or Collapse: Part 1 – From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations
In this first of a three-part contribution to Agroecologynow, Paulo Petersen and Denis Monteiro present the current moment as a crisis in capitalism that demands systemic and structural responses based in solidarity and feminist economics. …
The Dark Side of Innovation for Family Farmers: Reflections on an International Symposium on Innovation
This post explores the dark side of innovation, investigating the rapid rise to prominence of the term ‘Innovation’ within agricultural development, and presents some reasons why it is an inadequate framework to address the deep …