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Funding Food Systems Transformation: The Intersection of Gender Equity and Agroecology Movements

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.

Erin EberleMarch 7, 2024Women, Gender Equity, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems & Innovation, Inclusive Economies, agroecologyComment

African women speak out for agroecology

A 2021 study by the UN’s FAO concludes that around a third of the world’s food is produced by smallholder farmers on less than two hectares of land.

AfricaAgroecology FundMarch 8, 2022Gender Equity, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems & Innovation, Women, Food Security & Sovereignty, seedsComment

Students of Food Sovereignty

On this International Day of Education, we celebrate the holistic peer-to-peer approach of the Latin American Agroecological Institutes (IALAs)

AmericasCatherine DodaroJanuary 22, 2021Food Security & Sovereignty, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems & Innovation, Gender EquityComment

Food Sovereignty: Organizing for Survival

Argentina’s Union of Land Workers on the Hunger For Justice series

AmericasAgroecology FundSeptember 25, 2020Food Security & Sovereignty, Gender Equity, Inclusive EconomiesComment

Women Peasants Change The World

The Korean Women Peasants’ Association on the Hunger for Justice Series

AsiaAgroecology FundSeptember 24, 2020Gender Equity, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems & Innovation, Inclusive EconomiesComment

A Personal Reflection From a Visit to Soil, Food, and Healthy Communities In Malawi

John P. Wilson tells us about an exchange between farmers from Zimbabwe and Malawi.

What I concluded from this trip to northern Malawi is that we must try and strengthen the link between the academic world and CSOs on Agroecology and Food Sovereignty. But we must also be strategic about this in some way. It’s not going to be possible to have the level of documentation that SFHC has achieved everywhere. I don’t think that’s realistic. How can we ensure that at least some of our work is documented to the kind of level that SFHC has achieved?

AfricaJohn P. WilsonMarch 16, 2018Biodiversity Conservation & Climate Resilience, Gender Equity, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems & Innovation Comments

Gleaning the Wisdom: 7 Diverse Voices for Agroecology

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.

Africa, GlobalRucha ChitnisJune 14, 2016Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems & Innovation, Gender Equity, Biodiversity Conservation & Climate Resilience Comments

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