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For decades, rural peoples movements of peasant farmers, indigenous people, pastoralists, and fisherfolk (to name a few) have organized at the global level for a new food system based around the concepts of the human right to food, food sovereignty, and agroecology. Increasingly, grassroots movements and frontline communities from North America...
United States of America
Policy brief/paper
2021
Despite the key roles that rural women play in food systems, in agrobiodiversity conservation, natural resource management, food production, preparation and marketing, rural women are particularly affected by the impacts of climate change due to limited access and control over resources fundamental to adaptation and limited participation in decision-making processes....
Policy brief/paper
2021
Amid ongoing efforts to mainstream the transformation of agriculture and food systems within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) convened this side event on 3 November 2021 on the sidelines of the COP 26 negotiations. Discussions focused...
Event
2021
Stories in this publication demonstrate how local seed systems continue to be a fundamental component of agroecology and African food systems.
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) collaborated with journalists and writers from 14 African countries to showcase the struggle, the challenge, the hope and aspirations of seed savers...
Cameroon - Côte d'Ivoire - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
Book
2021
Integrating urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) into development and humanitarian assistance provides opportunities for both forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) and host communities. In the often-fragile contexts of forced displacement, it can increase resilience at both the livelihood and landscape levels. ''Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture and Forced Displacement'', a forthcoming volume...
Event
2021
Nissa Wargadipuras’s earliest memories involve learning how to live with nature. Her childhood home’s backyard in the hilly town of Garut, West Java was a little forest where her father planted vegetables, herbs and fruits. Her mother produced traditional medicine from the plants for their family and their neighbours.
Nissa’s idyllic...
Indonesia
Article
2021
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