The global food system is one of the main drivers of climate change. By our calculations, it is responsible for around half of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Still, the issue is hardly being talked …
ORFC16: Building Bridges
Highlights from the Land Workers’ Alliance at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2016 The Oxford Real Farming Conference is a highlight of the agricultural calendar to farmers, campaigners and activists working for agroecology and Food …
La Via Campesina, Agroecology and COP21
Recent COP21 talks in Paris might have been a disaster for agroecology. But they were also an opportunity for international activist groups like La Via Campesina to come together and network, share and build the …
Opinion: The Paris Agreement – A Disaster for Agroecology
A reflection on COP21 by Lynne Davis The superlatives used to describe the outcomes of the COP21 talks in Paris might convince us that human kind has made some giant leap toward genuine sustainability. Negotiators from …
The fight for agroecology in the United Kingdom
Interest in agroecology is spreading around the globe. In February 2015, social movements brought together pastoralists, farmers, fisherfolk, peasants, indigenous peoples, women’s movements and urban citizens together from around the globe to write the declaration …
Agroecological family farmers can become “the backbone of food security in Europe”
In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. Being part of the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (host of the debate), …
New publication: Building, defending and strengthening agroecology
September 2015: A new publication (Français and Español) and video explore the meaning and politics of agroecology from social movement perspectives. They are produced by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University …
Putting Agroecology on the Plate in the EU: Joining food providers, the FAO and scientists in the global agroecology movement
“We have built Agroecology through many initiatives and struggles…Policy makers cannot move forward on Agroecology without us… join us in the collective task of collectively constructing Agroecology as part of our popular struggles to build …
Launch of Agroecology for Food Sovereignty Project – St. Ulrich Workshop
On March 25-27, we met in St. Ulrich, Germany to launch the project: “Agroecology for Food Sovereignty.” Project partners including GRAIN, the European Coordination of La Via Campesina, the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, …
Agroecology – Vision, Practice, Movement: Voices From Social Movements
A movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend and strengthen agroecology as the …
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
GRAIN | 28 May 2014 | Reports It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world’s food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than …