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 …
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 …
Opportunity: Rise ATTER ‘Autumn School’ on ‘Ways of Knowing for Agroecological Transitions’
Are you a researcher or practitioner focusing on Agroecological transitions? Do you work with social movements or want to in the future? Do you use participatory and activist approaches in your work? Do you want …
“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 …
Reconfiguring Food Systems Governance: The UNFSS and the Battle over Authority and Legitimacy
The UN Food Systems Summit, held in New York throughout September 2021, has been a source of considerable controversy. Though advertised as a way for ‘global food systems transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’, …
COP26 – Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is the 26th of its kind. After a Covid-related postponement, it was held this year in Glasgow, Scotland between October 31 and November 12. …
Collection of publications (2014-2021)
People associated with AgroecologyNow! has published a large collection of publications. It is a wide a range of different materials for a diversity of audiences, including researchers, activists, policy-makers and practitioners. 2021 Agroecology Publications Coulibaly, …
Transforming Cape Town’s Covid soup kitchens into spaces of dignity – a community vision
This blog post explores the emergence of community kitchens in the wake of the COVID crisis. It examines their potential as a move beyond the ‘charity’ model of addressing hunger, towards a transformative perspective, rooted …
Land Skills Fair: This is What Diversity Looks Like!
This post is a reflection on the Land Skills Fair that took place in the UK from 13th to 15th August 2021. The event was the first major in-person gathering organised by the Landworkers’ Alliance …
Open Letters to policy makers and to the European Commission : No new science-policy interface for food systems
Some of the main players of the UNFSS science group promote the establishment of a new science-policy interface for food systems. Academics following the UN Food Systems Summit have contested this proposal that would bypass …
Technology and food sovereignty
“The knowledge of peasants, fisherfolk and pastoralists is our insurance for food during crisis.” Andrea Ferrante (Schola Campesina) People’s Counter-Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems In July 2021, over 300 global civil society and peasant …
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 …
Power to the Elites? Multistakeholderism and the UN Food Systems Summit
Multistakeholder processes are increasingly visible across food systems governance, and are at the heart of how the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is organized. But what is multistakeholder governance? Whose interests does this form of …