As a scholar-activist collective, AgroecologyNow! works with civil society groups and networks who cultivate and take care of the land, strive to retain and pass on their knowledge, and struggle to protect their people and …
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 …
Autumn school report ‘Ways of Knowing for Agroecological Transitions’
We are happy to share with you the report from the 7-day Autumn school that AgroecologyNow co-convened at Monkton Wyld Court in Dorset, UK in October 2022. The school was an attempt to highlight the …
Agroecology Blooms in Vermont: Announcing the UVM Institute for Agroecology
The University of Vermont (USA) launches a new Institute for Agroecology (IFA) that works with and for farmers, Indigenous people, social movements, and communities who are driving change in Vermont and around the world. Through …
Launch of Special Issue on Participatory Action Research in a Time of COVID and Beyond
The outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 was a challenge for any practitioner intent on engaging in authentic dialogue for people-centered, place-based transformative praxis with the most marginalized in society–be they in Europe or the …
Ecofeminism and Meat Substitutes: A Critical Discussion
The author, Anouk Dijkman, is a student in the MSc Programme of Food Sovereignty, Water and Resilience, a transdisciplinary post-graduate degree at Coventry University (UK). In this blog, which builds on her research work in …
Call for Contributions: Policies for Agroecology to Support Healthy and Just Food Systems
Do you have experiences, examples, stories or insights about how policy can support (or undermine) agroecology? Consider submitting an article to the first issue of the newly named magazine, ‘Rooted: Agroecology, Cultures and Foodways’ (formerly …
No More Displacement!
A new policy brief calls for a halt of projects that cause displacement. Displacement causes irreparable harm, and well-intended resettlement policies and practices perpetuate and justify further displacement. This brief busts 5 myths about resettlement …
Agroecology must open up to additional dimensions of transformation
The IX International Congress of Agroecology, held in Seville, Spain in January 2023, inquired into how academics perceive the current crisis in the primary sector of the economy affecting natural resources, and what activist-scholars engaged …
New podcast episode: Where Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignties meet
Destruction of Indigenous women and of Indigenous food systems were two powerful weapons used by colonists to conquer the North American continent. Today, stories of recovering traditional foodways are braided in with stories of re-making …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Agroecology Now! co-delivers first Autumn School on ‘Ways of Knowing for Agroecological Transitions’
As part of the RISE ATTER project, Agroecology Now! staff co-designed1 and delivered a 7-day event at Monkton Wyld Court in Dorset, UK. The main objective of this week-long collective space was to bring together …
“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 …
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 …