Nearly a decade after it was founded, the Agroecology Fund is pleased to announce a shift in leadership.
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A Summary of Outcomes of the February 11 Side Event at the 47th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 47), co-organized by the Agroecology Fund
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By strengthening Indigenous seed systems, Indigenous communities are protecting their food sovereignty and culture
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A memo from Indira Raimberdieva, Director of the Peace Building Center, Kyrgyzstan
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The Agroecology Fund will fund critical emergency responses and support grassroots advocacy efforts to resolve vulnerable populations’ food needs during the COVID-19 crisis.
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A photo essay on the Agroecology Fund’s global learning exchange in India
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Notes from the Agroecology Fund’s global learning exchange in India
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The exchange programme, held from 1-9 February 2020, comprised workshops, panel discussions, working group sessions, and visits to the fields of Natural Farming practitioners in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, India.
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In the climate change arena there are two main streams of work – mitigation, which are measures we need to take to stop emissions and halt climate change, and adaptation – the varied practices we are taking and can take to adapt to living with the new conditions that climate change brings.
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When we received the invitation to participate in the learning exchange in Uganda, it seemed impossible to travel to such a distant land that is Africa. We were requested to bring a farmer, preferably a woman, to join this gathering, but it was difficult to convince them to travel.
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This past spring I was fortunate to participate in the AgroEcology Fund’s learning convening in Masaka, Uganda. I saw how through careful collaboration, philanthropy can benefit and perhaps solve some of its own most fundamental problems by applying agroecological principles to organizational procedures. The term “agroecology” is a philosophy...
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It was inspiring to participate in the learning exchange hosted by the Agroecology Fund and Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa. I appreciated the perspective endorsed by the participants that amplifying agroecology requires context-specific support to enable small scale farmers...
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Last month, the AgroEcology Fund in partnership with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, hosted a convening with over 70 delegates from 20 countries in Masaka, Uganda. Farmers, social movements, funders, scientists and policy advocates dialogued on amplifying agroecological solutions in the context of a changing climate, land grabs and corporate control of seeds.
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In 2014, Grain published a seminal report: Hungry for land: Small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report raised concerns on shrinking farmlands in the face of large, corporate agriculture and land grabs. Yet, remarkably, small farms continue to be more productive than large farms and are major food producers in the world.
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