Agroecology

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Four: Food and Power

Food is about more than just the calories we need to survive. The expansion of corporate-controlled industrial agriculture has meant the loss of traditional knowledge, diverse genetic resources, and communities’ power to control their own food systems. 

[WATCH] Shaping the Future of Food: Agroecology Uprooted

What is agroecology, and why is it central to IATP's vision for a just, sustainable future of food?

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Three: Life on Earth

Food systems and biodiversity are deeply intertwined. Agroecology is grounded in biodiversity, taking advantage of ecological processes and relationships to improve farm resilience and productivity. But the dominant industrial agriculture system works against biodiversity in ways that are harming human health, driving mass extinction, and threatening all of life on earth.

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Two: Growing Resilience

Around the world, farmers adopting agroecological practices are rebuilding their soil, growing an abundance of food, and decreasing their reliance on external inputs. As war and political turmoil disrupt fertilizer and fuel supplies globally, agroecology is a way to build resilience in a destabilized world. 

Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure

As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper.

Introducing: Agroecology Uprooted

With food systems and the planet in crisis, what would true resilient, sustainable, and just solutions look like? Our new podcast miniseries coming in April will dive into the potential in agroecology, a holistic approach to food, agriculture, nature, and social systems.

Agroecology Meets the Care Economy: Bridging feminist economics and healthy food systems 

Dr. Marina Durano, Senior Director of the Pooled Fund, Collaborative for a Gender-Just Economy Dr. Sophia Murphy, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

IATP Travel Log: Harvesting hope and community from Minneapolis to Malmö

This year’s harvest time brought me to three different places — from Minneapolis over to Copenhagen, Denmark then to Malmö, Sweden — to learn and discuss what we can do to make our food systems work for the people.

UN committee creates space for collaborative responses in support of just food system transitions

Against the backdrop of multilateralism facing multiple challenges, and the UN remaining a spectator to unprecedented levels of unilateral coercive measures that are suffocating economies, obliterating communities, and impacting millions of lives in the Global South, Ukraine, and the Middle East, it was a relief to see governments coming together last week to adopt