A new step forward in the process for a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
Geneva, October 3, 2017 – The resolution on peasants’ rights was adopted by the UN on Friday 29th of September 2017 by 34 votes in favour, 11 abstentions and 2 against. It mandates the Inter-Governmental Working Group to finalize the [...]
Video
You can find now in youtube a video on the construction of a haystack in El Colomer de Taradell, (Xarxa de Patrimoni Rural. Ecomuseu del Blat). https://youtu.be/79nfGtGTCkk
[:ca]Simposi sobre educació crítica en adults, moviments alimentaris i transformació social[:es]Simposio sobre educación crítica con adultos, movimientos alimentarios y transformación social
Please find attached a call for papers for a symposium in Agriculture and Human Values that will explore the intersection between critical adult education, food movements and social transformation. A description of the call is attached to this email [...]
The experience of the studies on Sustainable Agriculture at UC Davis
The example of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis University of California, was explained its founding director Tomas T. Tomich, during the "Higher Education in Agroecology and food systems" seminar hosted last Wednesday in the framework of the International [...]
How to leave industrial agriculture behind – food systems experts urge global shift towards agroecology
Input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto sustainable footing, according to the world’s foremost experts on food security, agro-ecosystems and nutrition. The solution is to diversify agriculture [...]
Talk on Regenerative Agriculture
On the 17th of May, professor Luiz Carlos Pinheiro will give a talk at the University of Vic. The talk is titled "Producing healthy food with no-tillage and without agrotoxics". La talk will start at 19:30 at the room Seguimón [...]