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Next Urgenci International Symposium and European Meeting in 2018 in Greece
The 7th Urgenci International Symposium and the 4th European Meeting of CSA Movements will be held 9-11 November 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Steering Committee is forming and will hold its first online meetings shortly.
Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and Urgenci
PRESS RELEASE : Memorandum of Understanding signed in Rome : Urgenci officially recognized as long-term partner by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 30 October 2017 will remain a singular moment in the history of Urgenci, the network of Community Supported Agriculture. A 3-year Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the President
Learning Journey on LSPA in Turkey, October 2017
The learning journey to Turkey just a step in the collective work towards a common training frame for local and solidarity -based partnerships for agroecolgy in the Mediterranean Sea region.
Full report from the “EAThink meets CSA” -Seminar in Normandy
Urgenci organized on the 10th and 11th of July 2017 an European seminar on Education to sustainable and local food. Around 30 network facilitators, locavores and teachers from 13 different countries, from Spain to Czech Republic and from Austria to Malta, shared their experience on the topic.
URGENCI has started a CSA network in Mexico
by Josefina Cendejas, Urgenci’s IC member for Latin America Urgenci, the international CSA network organized the 1st national CSA meeting (or ARC/ Agricultura de Responsabilidad Compartida – Shared Responsibility Agriculture) in Mexico from July 6 to 8 in Morelia and Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. The main objective was to foster dialogue between
“Civil society, Food and Sustainable Cities”, Valencia, Sept 15-16, 2017.
On September 15 and 16, a meeting on “Civil Society, Food and Sustainable Cities” was held in Valencia. Its purpose was to bring together a significant number of actors of the urban agrifood system, focusing on the civil society organizations. In that context, URGENCI was invited to participate in a
Access to land and CSA – stories from Europe
Access to agricultural land has become a major issue throughout Europe – we are witnessing loss of land, land degradation, land concentration, land price increases and speculation. Yet the growing demand for local, fair and organic food cannot be met without the land and the committed farmers. Community Supported Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture meets Community Supported Fisheries!
About the Webinar organised by Local Catch. Community Supported Fisheries have been springing up all over the world. They are every bit as much an answer to industrial fishing as CSA is to agriculture. In North America there are already many thousands of members in an organised network, Local Catch.org.
¡Compartiendo la cosecha!
A very good news for all Spanish-speaking CSA activists ! Ecologistas en Acción finally published the e-book : Compartiendo la cosecha: Agricultura Apoyada por la Comunidad, una guía ciudadana, a Spanish version of Sharing the Harvest, by Elizabeth Henderson y Robyn Van En. In this Spanish translation of the thoroughly revised and
Irish CSA Celebrated at the Feeding Ourselves 2017 Gathering
The Feeding Ourselves 2017 gathering at the WeCreate centre in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland, is a now annual event that focuses on community and agroecological approaches to farming and food. This year, 70 people came together over a night and two days to meet up, hang out, plot, plan and generally get energised and inspired by each other’s company.
OUR FOOD – Our Stories and Our Partnerships, April, 17 – 25, 2017.
credit featured image: Gillian Brooks / CSA Network UK National Gathering & AGM 2015. At the 2016 Nyeleni Europe Forum on Food Sovereignty held in Romania, a collective decision was taken to launch a campaign on local food partnerships. Forum participants agreed the campaign should be launched across Europe on or
Strengthen the Human Rights of Peasants!
Join the movement and ask for the adoption of the UN Declaration on Peasants’ Rights! No peasants, no food. Let’s grow their rights! Peasants, fishers, pastoralists and other people working in rural areas produce most of the healthy and diverse food that we eat every day. In Europe and all
