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Grassroots Innovations Lead to Resilient Food Systems – The Agroecology approach

Evidence increasingly shows that a key driver of resilience in food systems lies in how we value and support local knowledge, on-farm experimentation, and grassroots innovation. The HLPE report on Building resilient food systems (2025) stresses that recognizing and promoting grassroots innovations contributes to equitable transformative resilience. Similarly, a recent FAO report titled Transforming food […]

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PAN-AFRICAN DECLARATION ON THE FUTURE OF BIODIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

PAN-AFRICAN DECLARATION ON THE FUTURE OF BIODIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE PREAMBLE We, participants of the First Pan-African Convening on the Future of Biodigital Technologies in Food and Agriculture, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 2–4 October 2025, and co-organized by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and African Technology Assessment Platform

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Register – Farmer-led research and development (Sept9)

Register for the second online Encounter -on Farmer-led farming tool Research and Development- that will be held on September 9th, 2025 (11-12:30 CEST) ; as part of a serie of 8 Encounters, held from June 2025 until April 2026. L’Atelier Paysan (France) and Tzoumakers (Greece) are conducting similar actions in their respective contexts to decentralize agriculture innovations and technologies and exit this

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Bilim forum 2025

The Bilim alliance on Agroecology is in Eastern Europe and West-Central Asia gathered in Moldova in May 2025, hosted by Gradina Moldovei. The report of this gathering now available here. During this forum, Bilim alliance set up a General Assembly with two co-chairs, and a Secretariat. Bilim organisations envision a strengthened collaboration amongst its members,

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GIAA meeting in India

The Grassroots innovations assembly for Agroecology (GIA) gathered in Ahmedabad (India), end of January 2025 for a 3 days internal meeting, and 3 days of participation to the Fifth International Conference On Creativity And Innovation At/For/From/With Grassroots. The giant efforts of our host Honey Bee Network and @GIAN made possible to welcome 15 organisations, active

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Bilim forum 2025

The second forum of the Bilim alliance has been hosted by Gradina Moldovei and took place in Chisinau, Moldova, on May 20th-24th, 2025. Representatives from 15 countries and 20 different Civil Society Organizations agreed on a structured governance model with a Secretariat and a General Assembly, while remaining an informal space for peer sharing among agroecology organizations.

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CSIPM PRESS RELEASE – Food sovereignty is not possible without financial sovereignty

Following the CFS Dialogue on Financing for Food Security and Nutrition, the CSIPM has published a press release, and the zine Trade, debt and financialization: What it has to do with the food on your plate. 🎥 Recordings of the statements delivered by Morgan Ody (LVC), Ibrahima Coulibaly (ROPPA/PAFO), and Shiney Varghese (IATP) are available here in their original languages.

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