“Enacting Resilience”: the report on the response of Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology (LSPA) to the Covid-19 Crisis has just been released. The team of grassroots actors, practitioners and researchers gathered by URGENCI wanted to gain a detailed understanding of how solidarity-based short supply chains and territorial food distribution systems support people’s access to food... Read More

Ariel Molina, an agroecologist and activist, the founder of the CSA Brasil network and a member of the International Committee of URGENCI, wrote a manifesto concerning the dramatic situation in Manaus, Amazonia, where he lives. It is a moving testimony that should be shared with the entire network. Find the full text of the declaration:... Read More

The Oxford Real Farming Conference is kicking off today! URGENCI is excited to be part of this year's global online event. Find herean overview of the five sessions hosted by Urgenci. We hope to see you there!

URGENCI is launching its membership bidding round 2020! Place your bid before 30 November, write to contact(at)urgenci.net

The growth of activities has led to URGENCI recruiting a Learning Designer to develop and coordinate its online learning activities together with other training needs. We are looking for a Learning Designer to: Design online learning activities for URGENCI’s education platform. Oversee our training and education methodology approach. Design learning curricula for various training programmes... Read More

URGENCI is undertaking a worldwide research on “The state of solidarity food initiatives in the time of Covid-19”. We want to gain a better picture about our movement’s contribution to more resilient and socially inclusive local food systems during crisis. You can help us gather and spread this information by answering the few questions of... Read More

Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Movement in Europe and Central Asia releases Access to Land Handbook.

The 3rd in the special series of RIPESS webinars covered the field of COVID-19, food sovereignty, solidarity economy and the right to food. The participants were Qiana Mickie, special policy consultant with Just Food in New York, Judith Hitchman, president of Urgenci International Community Supported Agriculture Network, and Marcus Hill, from the US Solidarity Economy Network as special guest. Sofia Monsalve, Secretary General of FIAN International was the very able moderator. The webinar was recorded. You can watch it online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lGhP7u0oQc&feature=emb_logo

Together with others, URGENCI, the international network of Local and Solidarity -based Partnerships for Agroecology, has asked European Union Commissioners and their teams to provide guidance and a clear perspective of the road forward, meeting citizens’ expectations across Europe, by publishing the #EUFarm2Fork by end of April 2020. The President of the International Committee of... Read More

The international campaign we are all engaged in to reduce our tragic losses to the Covid-19 crisis is just a rehearsal for the big campaign that lies ahead – to preserve and build sustainable local and territorial food systems that connect producers and consumers and provide healthy, nutritious food for all.

URGENCI is joining a group of organisations and research units collecting experience -based feedbacks on "Eating in the time of Covid-19".

The Covid19 virus is spreading fast at global level, and affecting all our lives, more in some countries than others. This pandemic leads us to a certain number of collective reflections not just on our food systems, but also on the global political and economic system.