On 2 April 2020 I had the distinct pleasure of co-hosting the first Informed Cities webinar with Allison Wildman from ICLEI. The webinar was called "Sitopia: rethinking our lives...
The latest report of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition has just been released. Key messages from the Report are: i. There is an urgent...
WEBINAR: Food Sovereignty and the Farm to Fork Strategy: Building a fairer and more just agricultural model in the EU I am very excited to be presenting on the importance of...
Strategising from a food sovereignty perspective As part of the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies we will discuss the collective response by 23 food sovereignty scholar activists to the...
On 14 May, the Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Movement in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) sent a letter to the Executive vice president of the European Commission (EC), Franz Timmermans, who...
We are discussing rural-urban relations in the era of COVID-19 on the Rural Sociology blog! Share your reflections...
https://youtu.be/bEkGOUJmszE In this short video lecture, Jessica Duncan reflects on how the global food sovereignty movement manages the contradictory goals of inclusion and diversity and why categories – like women and...
Constituencies Constituencies are broadly defined as groups of people with shared interests (Oxford English Dictionary 2017). In the global food sovereignty movement (GFSM), the concept has been used to identify and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXr8Nnl-jPg A short video summary of our article that analyzes the roles, relations, and positions of scholar-activists in the European food sovereignty movement. In doing so, we document, make visible and...
IPES-Food has just released a report arguing for a Common Food Policy for the European Union:. The report proposes a "direction of travel for the whole food system, bringing together the...
