Advocacy

We seek to amplify agroecology by connecting its three dimensions: practice, science and movement. This means we create spaces where farmers, urban citizens, academics, activists and policy makers share perspectives. We promote agroecology as a food system that is based on a dialogue of different types of knowledge and firmly rooted in family farming. We engage in debates and discussions, organise field visits, connect students with farmers, and are one of the founding members of the Dutch-Belgian Voedsel Anders (Food Otherwise) network.

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Photo: Aart-Jan van de Glind

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Workshop: "Agroecology to feed the world". Photo: People's Assembly

Monsanto Tribunal and the People’s Assembly

October 18th, 2016

The Monsanto Tribunal, held from 14-16 October in The Hague, the Netherlands, was a historic event contributing to the ongoing debate to include the crime of ecocide into international criminal law.

 

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Training weekend ‘Food sovereignty in practice

June 19th, 2016

For the second consecutive year, Toekomstboeren, FIAN Netherlands, Otherwise, TNI and ILEIA organised a training weekend, an inspiring exchange of alternatives to our current food system.

 

Strengthening farmer-led seed systems

June 17th, 2016

On June 15th, 2016, ILEIA, Boerengroep, Louis Bolk Instituut, Bioversity International and ASEED organised a panel discussion where experts shared their perspectives on the implementation of access and benefit sharing of genetic resources.

 

Voedsel Anders conference 2016

March 13th, 2016

The second ‘Voedsel Anders’ (Food Otherwise) conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands, brought together 1000 people working on fair and sustainable food systems.