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...

IFOAM- Organics International organizes the first residential session of the Organic Leadership Course will be held from 22 June to 29 June 2019 in Trakai, Lithuania. This beautiful region, filled with cultural sites and local charm, will give everyone the opportunity to visit organic farms and experience the emerging organic...

One of our food system's main challenges is the inadequate relationship between the cost of production and production factors as a whole. Therefore, food production and distribution systems are often at a disadvantage to local producers. New research reveals the benefits for farmers and growers, local suppliers, citizens, and the environment...

The two most significant signatures of the Anthropocene—agriculture and urbanisation—have yet to be studied synoptically. The term periurban is used to describe territory where the urbanising trend of the planet extends into multiscapes. A periurban praxis is required that spatially reconciles urbanisation and agriculture, simultaneously permitting urban growth and the...

The University of Vermont’s (UVM) Agroecology & Livelihoods Collaborative (ALC) will offer a graduate summer course on “Introduction to Agroecology”.  This hybrid, graduate level, 4-week course presents an in-depth overview of research and applications in the field of agroecology. The first three weeks of the course are online, and the last week students meet face...