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On December 1st weekend we hosted over 600 farmers and food lovers in Lishui, Zhejiang Province for the 8th National CSA Conference of China. This also kicked off the formation of the National Community Supported Agriculture Network of China where CSA farmers will be encouraged to farm by cutting out

Jordan Treakle wrote a in-depth post that focuses on the outcomes of the International Seminar on Local Public Policies for Food Sovereignty that took place in mid-November in the Basque Country. The author identifies key themes to emerge out of the Seminar.  Here are the main topics for thought and debate he

Organizers of the European « Be part of CSA ! » educational project met in Timisoara on November, 21st-23rd, hosted by the Romanian CRIES partner. They attend a three-day management meeting to assess the impact of the project led by their organizations in Hungary, Czech Republic and Romania and discussed about the outcomes

Bayer bought out Monsanto for 66 billion dollars. The game of Monopoly continues with a small number of agro-industrial giants sharing out their control of living organisms. The reaction of millions of people to this is one of urgency: they share the feeling of a need to act, to take back control of their food systems. Their slogans are the independence of peasants, consumers right to choose and the collective right to decide what model of food system we want. Their collective actions cover a broad scope. But one of the most highly developed and demanding approaches is that of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). By Jocelyn Parot, General Secretary of the international network Urgenci

   Press release *** The fight back against industrial agriculture and for a just and sustainable future for farming and peasant farmers took a leap forward this week as the largest-ever European Forum on food sovereignty concluded. [1] After five days of discussions, the groundwork has been laid to take

A seminar on Deregulation in Value Chains held late August turned out to be the moment for a long-awaited exchange between local and global fair, sustainable food initiatives.

Between September 16 and 18, 2016 the North Moravian City of Ostrava will play host to a meeting of the European organizations and communities involved in the project of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The purpose of this gathering that will be attended by over a hundred people from all over

Urgenci is involved in a new interdiscplinary and international project with University of Bern (Switzerland) on “the importance of social solidarity economy in the development of organic agriculture in Europe, in the past and the present”. by Gaëlle Bigler and Peter Volz On the 30th of June, 2016, Dr Stephan

    History of the project Urgenci mobilised for the first MedCOP21 in Marseilles in June 2015 thanks to the strong commitment of three of our partners: the AMAP de Provence, which is a regional Miramap network in France, the Moroccan Swani Tiqa and the GAS from Italy. The mobilisation was around

We are happy to invite media representatives to come and cover the 2nd Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty – the biggest ever convergence of Pan-European food sovereignty movements. Up to 1,000 people from 42 countries – small-scale farmers, fishers, pastoralists, consumers, urban gardeners, indigenous peoples, researchers, agricultural workers, environmentalists,