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 …
Farming for Climate Justice Webinar Recordings
Farming for Climate Justice is a collaboration between CAWR and the University of Cape Town and is funded by the British Council’s Research Links Climate Challenge Fund. As such, it is designed to focus on …
In solidarity with the Palestinian People
“In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends” Martin Luther King The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will no-doubt come as a great relief to …
Failure to Engage: Civil Society Marginalized in UN Food Summit
The failure of the UN Food Systems Summit to adequately engage civil society is one key reason why hundreds of civil society organisations have decided not to participate. In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly …
New Policy Brief: Transforming Development Aid to Support Agroecology
It’s time to make money move for agroecology and together foster social justice and sustainability in food systems! Policy Brief by CIDSE and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University. April 2021 English …
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 …
Join us: Workshop on “Making Money Move for Agroecology”
EVENT DETAILS Date: April 19, 2021 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET Organiser: CIDSE and CAWR Supported by: BIOVISION and ASP-TA Languages: English/French/Spanish Pre-registration required:REGISTER HERE. Deadline: 16 April 2021 The ecological, economic and social problems in food systems …