Participation continues to be heralded as undeniably positive. Participation is a way to involve people in decision making. It is imbued with ideas of democracy, people’s power, and challenging top-down governance. Yet, in practice, rather …
‘A Shared Human Endeavour’: a new model for farmer participation and knowledge co-production in agroecological research
In this blog, Chris Maughan and Colin Anderson discuss their recent open access article ‘A Shared Human Endeavour’, which offers a new model for designing participatory agroecological research and knowledge co-production. Based on an analysis …
Putting Indigenous knowledge into practice for climate change: the Tribal Adaptation Menu
Indigenous knowledge offers invaluable insights for how to approach climate change. This article describes a tool called the Tribal Adaptation Menu that provides a set of concrete, practical strategies, approaches and tactics for how to …
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 …
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 …
DARE Statement: Democratizing Agricultural Research in Europe
Feeding local communities without destroying the planet is one of this century’s most intractable global challenges. While sometimes generating short-term increases in production, industrial approaches to food and agriculture are now understood to cause rising …
Perspectives: Strengthening people’s knowledge
A new article collaboration between researchers at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) and the Food Sovereignty Alliance India calls for a shift in the paradigm around agroecology. The full article Perspectives: Strengthening people’s knowledge is …