Growing Movements
Massive funding is needed to transform our food system. The Agroecology Fund continues to grow its grant pool and seeks to Influence large-scale public and private funding toward agroecology.
Deepening Knowledge
The Agroecology Fund supports the co-creation and amplification of knowledge about agroecology among farmers and allies, with focus on integrating practice, science, and policy shifts.
Cultivating Conversation
The Agroecology Fund helps shift the dominant narrative about food and hunger, providing evidence and inspiration about the centrality of agroecological food systems while exposing threats posed by corporate concentration and industrial systems.
Harvesting Change
The Agroecology Fund supports grassroots collaboratives that are influencing national policies to support new economy food systems and shift support away from industrial agriculture.
Nearly 70% of the world’s food is produced by small farmers, in some regions of Africa and India that number is even higher, and at least half of these farmers are women. Our industrial food system, structured around unsustainable extraction, entrenches patterns of patriarchy that are harmful to women. A food system transformation is urgent as we face a polycrises of hunger, climate crisis, and biodiversity loss—and along with it gender inequity. An agroecological transition can address these issues, while simultaneously producing healthy, abundant, culturally appropriate foods by and for local communities around the world.