In this blog, Ayana Curran-Howes and Nils McCune at the UVM Institute for Agroecology explore what agroecology represents to the millions of workers that produce the food that humans eat. What kind of liberation does …
“The food sovereignty movement must be anti-caste”: An Interview with Dalit, Adivasi and other members of the Food Sovereignty Alliance in India
In this article, part of our Food Sovereignty and Spirituality series, members of the Food Sovereignty Alliance (FSA) in India share about their fight against the dominant Brahmanical patriarchal ideology which is at the root of the caste …
Remote Control and Peasant Intelligence
New report exposes how digitalization and artificial intelligence risk undermining peasant knowledge and autonomy. Digital technologies are often touted as a silver bullet to respond to the interconnected crises of food, climate and biodiversity. Although …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
Hot off the press: New Open Access Book on Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems
This new open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology in transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and …
Seeking New Agreements for Working with Nature through Enhancing Agricultural Biodiversity
In this first article in our new column, Agroecology in Motion: Nourishing Transformation, Patrick Mulvany, (HRF, CAWR), makes a call to radically foreground a more robust and transformative understanding of agricultural biodiversity, especially the need …
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 …
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 …