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Month: March 2016
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Globally connected: News from the AgriCultures Network
March 23rd, 2016
Members of the AgriCultures Network are working together to advance family farming rooted in agroecology. Here is our latest update. The Netherlands: Food conference The second ‘Voedsel Anders’ (Food Otherwise) conference took place in the Netherlands in February 2016, bringing together over 1000 people at Wageningen University. The conference, co-organised by AgriCultures Network member ILEIA, … Read more
Call for articles: Measuring the impact of agroecology
March 23rd, 2016
The September issue of Farming Matters will explore how to better prove the effectivenes of agroecology. Agriculture and the rural world perform important roles in addressing the multiple crises of today: hunger and malnutrition, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, water, gender inequity and health. The Sustainable Development Goals, recently endorsed by the … Read more
In memoriam: Bertha Cáceres
March 23rd, 2016
Berta Cáceres, a hugely influential indigenous and peasant leader, grassroots feminist, environmental activist and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental was murdered in her hometown of La Esperanza, Honduras, on 2 March 2016. It is a tragic ending to the life of this courageous woman. Bertha Cáceres was the co-founder and general coordinator of the National … Read more
CO-CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE
March 23rd, 2016
Farming Matters | 32.1 | March 2016 This issue of Farming Matters illustrates how the collective creation of knowledge lies at the heart of agroecology rooted in family farming. It presents stories of farmers, scientists, urban citizens, government officials, NGOs, and others who have jointly created agroecological solutions that are suited to their own, local … Read more
Strawberry fields forever.
March 23rd, 2016
Professor Steve Gliessman and farmer Jim Cochran are among the movers and shakers of the strawberry sector in California. Since the 1980s they have been experimenting with sustainable ways to grow strawberries and with alternative food networks. Committed to the agroecological transition, they built a powerful farmer-researcher partnership that was groundbreaking for farmers, academia and … Read more
Life cycles: Climate change seen through indigenous worldviews
March 23rd, 2016
Adivasi communities in India have come together to collectively represent their cultural, agronomic and climatic calendar as they know it. Youth have been using the life cycle to reflect on the effects of climate change and people’s responses to it. This is a case of collective learning that reflects indigenous worldviews. Dialogue amongst the different … Read more
“Agroecology is an epistemological revolution”
March 23rd, 2016
Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethnoecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His work focuses primarily on the study of agroecological and knowledge systems. In this interview, Victor M. Toledo explains why co-creation of knowledge is an integral part of agroecology and discusses the changes that are needed for this … Read more
Rescuing our maize: Building a network
March 23rd, 2016
A network of communities in West-Central Mexico has rescued its traditional landraces of maize. This experience shows that the benefits of defending an ancestral good is not only limited to regaining cultural identity and agrobiodiversity. The defence of native maize has become a space where old and new knowledge redefined agriculture and where people achieved … Read more
Join the European food sovereignty movement!
March 23rd, 2016
The food sovereignty movement is, in itself, a process of knowledge co-creation. Ludwig Rumetshofer, a young farmer from Austria, and Sylvia Kay, a Netherlands-based researcher invite us to participate in the second Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty in October 2016, in Romania. Between the 26th and 30th of October in Cluj Napoca, Romania, the … Read more
Growing our cocoa, raising our voices
March 23rd, 2016
Léocadie Voho is a cocoa farmer from Ivory Coast. Together with 23 other female farmers, researchers, film makers and the Fairtrade organisation she realised that trade was, after all, not fair. By filming her story, she learned how to make change. “My name is Léocadie Voho. I am 51 years old. I have seven children … Read more
Month: March 2016
Members of the AgriCultures Network are working together to advance family farming rooted in agroecology. Here is our latest update. The Netherlands: Food conference The second ‘Voedsel Anders’ (Food Otherwise) conference took place in the Netherlands in February 2016, bringing together over 1000 people at Wageningen University. The conference, co-organised by AgriCultures Network member ILEIA, … Read more
The September issue of Farming Matters will explore how to better prove the effectivenes of agroecology. Agriculture and the rural world perform important roles in addressing the multiple crises of today: hunger and malnutrition, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, water, gender inequity and health. The Sustainable Development Goals, recently endorsed by the … Read more
Berta Cáceres, a hugely influential indigenous and peasant leader, grassroots feminist, environmental activist and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental was murdered in her hometown of La Esperanza, Honduras, on 2 March 2016. It is a tragic ending to the life of this courageous woman. Bertha Cáceres was the co-founder and general coordinator of the National … Read more
CO-CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Farming Matters | 32.1 | March 2016 This issue of Farming Matters illustrates how the collective creation of knowledge lies at the heart of agroecology rooted in family farming. It presents stories of farmers, scientists, urban citizens, government officials, NGOs, and others who have jointly created agroecological solutions that are suited to their own, local … Read more
Strawberry fields forever.
Professor Steve Gliessman and farmer Jim Cochran are among the movers and shakers of the strawberry sector in California. Since the 1980s they have been experimenting with sustainable ways to grow strawberries and with alternative food networks. Committed to the agroecological transition, they built a powerful farmer-researcher partnership that was groundbreaking for farmers, academia and … Read more
Life cycles: Climate change seen through indigenous worldviews
Adivasi communities in India have come together to collectively represent their cultural, agronomic and climatic calendar as they know it. Youth have been using the life cycle to reflect on the effects of climate change and people’s responses to it. This is a case of collective learning that reflects indigenous worldviews. Dialogue amongst the different … Read more
“Agroecology is an epistemological revolution”
Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethnoecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His work focuses primarily on the study of agroecological and knowledge systems. In this interview, Victor M. Toledo explains why co-creation of knowledge is an integral part of agroecology and discusses the changes that are needed for this … Read more
Rescuing our maize: Building a network
A network of communities in West-Central Mexico has rescued its traditional landraces of maize. This experience shows that the benefits of defending an ancestral good is not only limited to regaining cultural identity and agrobiodiversity. The defence of native maize has become a space where old and new knowledge redefined agriculture and where people achieved … Read more
Join the European food sovereignty movement!
The food sovereignty movement is, in itself, a process of knowledge co-creation. Ludwig Rumetshofer, a young farmer from Austria, and Sylvia Kay, a Netherlands-based researcher invite us to participate in the second Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty in October 2016, in Romania. Between the 26th and 30th of October in Cluj Napoca, Romania, the … Read more
Growing our cocoa, raising our voices
Léocadie Voho is a cocoa farmer from Ivory Coast. Together with 23 other female farmers, researchers, film makers and the Fairtrade organisation she realised that trade was, after all, not fair. By filming her story, she learned how to make change. “My name is Léocadie Voho. I am 51 years old. I have seven children … Read more
