English (French and Spanish Available Below) A movement is growing. Traditional forms of agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world. Today, we are witnessing the mobilization of transnational social movements …
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A small collection of posters for inspiration and posterity. Posters are tagged.
Learning as a Social Movement Strategy
The use of education, learning, and training as a strategy to build movements and fight oppression has a long history, especially in agrarian social movements. Sometimes referred to as ‘popular education’, such approaches contrast with …
Farm Hack: open source farm-to-farmer innovation in the creative commons
Farm Hack is a community-led approach to the development, modification and sharing of designs for farm tools, machinery and other innovations. It emphasizes a farmer-to-farmer approach to learning and creates platforms for farmers to come …
Strengthening FAO’s Commitment to Agroecology – New Booklet Hot off the Virtual Press
Agroecology represents an alternative paradigm for food and farming – one that puts people and planet at centre stage and emphasises the priorities of food producers and marginalized peoples around the world. International institutions can …
Live-Streamed Seminar: Agroecology Transitions-Transformations for A more Just and Sustainable Food System
What is needed to make the transition transformation for more sustainable and just food systems? In this Seminar, the AgroecologyNow! group at CAWR will present a framework they have developed for understanding and enabling agroecology …
Strengthening FAO’s Commitment to Agroecology
This AgroecologyNow! brief / brochure / booklet, which is titled ‘Strengthening FAO’s Commitment to Agroecology‘, is one of a series of civil society briefings and presents an analysis of the current dynamics, opportunities and challenges of …
A collection of research briefs (2019-2020)
This collection of research briefs represent a series of research briefings for civil society, policy and activist audiences and are based on our wider research program on agroecology, food sovereignty and social transformation for sustainability …
Agroecology as a Pathway Towards Food Sovereignty in Ethiopian Forest Communities
The social and ecological environment in southwest Ethiopia is in flux. This is probably the case in most forest communities. Changes in society are also reconfiguring the environment. Little towns and hamlets are growing both …
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 …
The Politics of Co-optation: in the Struggle for Just Sustainability: Stuffing Agroecology into the Innovation Box
See below for more detailed description of this ‘Politics of Co-optation’ seminar/workshop at Laboratoire Agriculture Urbaine List of freely available pieces of related writing that I will draw from are at the bottom of this …
Bringing Agroecology into the UK Agriculture Bill
Agroecological approaches to agriculture improve rural livelihoods, regenerate ecologies and increase the resiliency of communities, while providing healthy and sustainable food. Policy support for agroecology in the UK has been piecemeal and many policies undermine …
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know
Most concede that there is an urgent need to radically transform our food systems. But the proposed innovations for more sustainable food systems are drastically different. Which we choose will have long-lasting effects on human …
Strengthening a Transformative Agroecology Learning approach in Europe: Four Pillars
Is there something distinctive about agroecology learning and training? How is learning a part of the struggle for food sovereignty, or other social movements for social justice and sustainability? What examples are there of this …
Highlighting the importance of power and governance in the debate on “innovation” in agriculture: A contribution to the HLPE process
Agroecology when articulated as a transformative approach to food system, is the most promising “innovation” (and set of “innovations”) at play at the global level. Yet, the current dominant innovation systems, in a wider disabling …
Agroecology as a Pathway towards Sustainable Food Systems (New Report)
This report looks at Agroecology as a Pathway to Sustainable Food Systems. Food systems are at a critical juncture and a dramatic transition to agroecology is urgently needed. Alarming rates of food insecurity and malnutrition persist, manifested as …
Statements/Contributions to Policy Processes
We have brought the ideas and analysis of the AgroecologyNow! work into different policy arenas at local, national and international levels. Statements/Contributions to Policy Processes, which focuses on two areas: Official policy spaces convened by …
Rise of the ‘megafarms’: how UK agriculture is being sold off and consolidated
“If you were to visit the English countryside 15 years ago, you would have found nine times as many small farms as you do today – and twice as many different farms in general….” Elise …
Magic in a Movement: The Fight for a Just Food System in the USA (Personal Reflections)
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance met from October 12-15 to advance the USA food movement for a more democratic, sustainable and just food system. I accompanied over 150 other souls from different corners of the …
Just Transitions at the US Food Sovereignty Alliance
I recently participated in the US Food Sovereignty Alliance gathering in Bellingham, Washington where the idea of Just Transitions was being debated with lots of amazing examples of grassroots organizing within this framework. Tyler Short …
Special Issue on Learning for Transformation in Food Movements
This Special Issue on Learning for Transformation in Food Movements, published in the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, Volume 36, issue 3, focuses on the role of popular education, critical pedagogy and adult education …
Call for Contributions: Agroecology Now! Transitions-Transformations for a More Just and Sustainable Food System
A Call for contributions to a session on agroecology transitions at the meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Washington D.C. (April 3-7, 2019) https://annualmeeting.aag.org Abstract Submission Deadline for AAG: October 21, 2018. …
Special Issue on Agroecology Transitions-Transformations
This special journal issue shares six articles on on Agroecology Transitions-Transformations in the Journal of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. The special issue was edited by Colin Anderson, Jahi Chappell and Michel Pimbert with the support …