What would food policy look like if it put people and planet first? How can social movements work to deepen our analysis of the problems, to strengthen relationships across boundaries and to effectively articulate our …
Reading for Food Justice
This project involved critically analyzing the policy documents and statements that have been published by different organisations in post-brexit Britain to read between the lines and help understand the power and politics behind these positions. …
Agroecology research mailing list
This agroecology research mailing list is a discussion forum for a growing network of critical agroecology researcher across the UK, Europe and beyond. Its focus is on the social, political and economic aspects of agroecological …
2020 – a Super Year for Biodiversity?
At the end of February, a meeting of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) to develop the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework was held in FAO, Rome. I was there with the IPC for Food Sovereignty. Delegates were preparing …
Bibliography on Agroecology Transitions and Transformation
This is a bibliography on agroecology transitions. A collection of research articles that we have flagged as directly relevant for agroecology transitions and transformations. We are using this bibliography for the production of a book …
Prioritising Agroecology and Challenging Corporate Technology-Led Approaches in the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and Beyond
In December 2019, Ms. Agnes Kalibata, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was appointed as the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. Over the last …
New Special Issue on Agroecology Transformations: Connecting the dots to enable agroecology transformations
This special issue on Agroecology Transformations, published today in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, includes six articles sharing new insights into the process and kinds of transformations needed to enable agroecology as a model for a …
New Backgrounder: Scaling Agroecology from the Bottom up: Six Domains of Transformation
How can we enable the scaling of agroecology from the Bottom up? What is needed for agroecology be advanced, amplified, scaled up and out? In each context, there are enabling and disabling conditions that shape …
Lume: New publication on method of economic-ecological analysis to support Agroecology
In spite of the growing recognition of agroecology around the world, there is still a significant lack of adequate tools for the study of the economic basis of agroecosystems that are appropriate for the modes …
Building Resilience to Natural Disasters in populated African Mountain Ecosystems
As part of CAWR’s Stabilisation Agriculture Programme, I recently visited Chimanimani district in Zimbabwe to initiate comparative research on how conventional and agroecologically managed landscapes coped with the impacts of Cyclone Idai in March 2019. …
New Policy Brief – Nourishing Life. Territories of Life and Food Sovereignty
“Local communities on all continents are being displaced and impoverished by the combined actions of top down, ‘people-out’ fortress conservation and the expansion of industrial agriculture. This silent violence can be reversed by strengthening self-determining …
Video collection 1
This ‘Video collection 1’ links to a variety of videos with diverse perspectives on agroecology as a means to cool the planet, realise food sovereignty and food security, find better gender balances and domains, and …
Shifting from Industrial Agriculture to Diversified Agroecological Systems in China
This freshly published book (open access, free to download) offers a new perspective on how to shift from industrial agriculture to diversified Agroecological Systems in China and contributes to recent debates on agroecology transitions and transformation. …
Agroecology and Organics in Sikkim – New Video and Upcoming Talks
When the government of Sikkim (Northeast Indian State) won the prize for “Best Policy to Scale Up Agroecology” in the world, my interest was piqued. I have long been grappling with questions about the role …
Scaling Agroecology – Some of The Latest Thinking in 6 Edited Collections!
There has been a lot of talk about the scaling of agroecology as a new paradigm for food and agriculture. There have been calls for scaling up, scaling out, massification, transitions, transformations and more. This …
Theories of Change: Understanding and Clarifying Action and Difference
The Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University (in the UK) recently hosted a workshop to “collectively strengthen relationships, learning/analysis and collaboration for people who are involved in research and knowledge work …
A Guide to Mapping for Food System Change – A New Publication
Many people and organisations interested in agroecology and food sovereignty are mapping. It is all the rage! People are mapping farms, markets, crop varieties and livestock breeds, soil fertility and water management practices, policies and …
Farm Hack shows us everything that it is wrong with UK agricultural training and research
Farm Hack is a response to a need – not only for access to often fundamental agricultural knowledge, but also for a different way of organising, relating, and owning in UK farming systems. It is …
Re/Nuevas Alianzas: Trabajando hacia la colaboración entre agricultores y académicos para la soberanía alimentaria en América del Norte
El Centro de Agroecología, Agua y Resistencia de la Universidad de Coventry (Reino Unido) organizó recientemente un taller para “fortalecer colectivamente las relaciones, el aprendizaje/análisis y la colaboración de las personas que están involucradas en …
These Extraordinary Times: Indigenous Peoples and coalition building for agroecology and food sovereignty
Above: Members of a Euro-American motorcycle club work alongside citizens of the Athabascan Nation to launch a fish wheel in the Copper River, Alaska. By Carol Kalafatic The Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) …
Re/New Alliances: Working towards farmer-scholar collaboration for food sovereignty in North America
Above: Street demonstration during the the IV National Assembly of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance in Bellingham, WA, October 2018 | Credit: David Meek by Jahi Chappell, Saulo Araujo & Ernesto Mendez The Centre for …
Collective and/or community rights to land, seeds and natural resources for agroecology in East Africa – Workshop
Secure access to and control over land, seeds and other natural resources is key to agroecology. If properly recognized and implemented, collective and/or community rights over these resources represent a powerful and viable alternative to …
Domains of Transformation for a More Just and Sustainable Food System: A Berkeley Seminar
This seminar by Colin Anderson will present and discuss the work of the AgroecologyNow! group at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience. The talk will focus on Agroecology and Sustainability Transitions-Transformations. Seminar: 1-2 pm Friday, 15 …