Category: <span>Long reads</span>

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 …

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 …

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 …