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Who will feed the Nyeleni-Europe forum? Portrait of a producer
Enike and Istvan run a CSA farm that provides many of our Ecoruralis hosts with their weekly box on a year-round basis. The essential aspects of shared risk and benefits are in place, as is the year-long commitment to their farm, even if payment is made on a weekly basis.
Kick-off workshop in Bern on Solidarity Economy and Organic agriculture
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
Mediterranean Solidarity & Agroecology! at the MedCOP 22, Tangiers, July 2016.
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
Press Invitation: second Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty, 26-30 October 2016, Romania
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,
FROM UNIFORMITY TO DIVERSITY
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) brings together expert voices representing different disciplines and different types of knowledge, to inform the policy debate on how to reform food systems across the world. They recently published a comprehensive study (June 2016) : From uniformity to diversity: A paradigm shift
CSA in Norway
By Elizabeth Henderson Marte Guttulsrod and Alexandra Devik introduce the new symbol for the Oikos CSA network. Oikos – Organic Norway paid me the great honor of inviting me to be the keynote speaker for their second annual CSA conference, June 23 in Oslo. The gathering took place in a
Final negotiations of the policy text on Connecting Smallholders to Markets
Last week, in Rome, on 8-9 June, Shi Yan and Judith Hitchman, URGENCI’s vice-president and president, participated in the final negotiations of the policy text on Connecting Smallholders to Markets, on behalf of Urgenci, as part of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) delegation. Other Civil society organizations were present as
5th National AMAP meeting
The French Community Supported Agriculture movement (AMAP) facing domestic challenges, hopes for European support By Jocelyn Parot, General Secretary of Urgenci Urgenci, the European CSA movement, and how to connect the different levels of action for Food Sovereignty ranked high among the hot topics discussed at the 5th National AMAP
Crowdfunding the 3rd European Community Supported Agriculture meeting!
Crowdfunding the 3rd European Community Supported Agriculture meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic (Sept 16-18, 2016.) Urgenci International together with ProBioLiga are launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign on June 1st. 2016 at 13:00 CET to support the organisation of the 3rd European Community Supported Agriculture meeting. Our aim is to identify
CSA in West Africa
Africa has always been a continent where Agroecology was practiced before the introduction of chemical inputs in the 1990s. This is when peasants turned to ‘conventional’ agriculture. Many African small-scale producers are now trying to return to Agroecology, to grow crops that are healthy both for humans and the environment
Eating from the Farm: the social, environmental, and economic benefits of local food systems
This is definitely the week for important publications! After the Urgenci major publication on CSA in Europe, here is an analysis of some of the different parts of the new food system in Europe by Friends of the Earth Europe. Including CSA of course, and with a contribution from Urgenci.
FAO consultation with Civil Society and FAO Regional Conference
57 organisations, mainly social movements, from all over Europe and Central Asia came together in Antalya for the FAO European and Central Asian Consultation with civil society. All constituencies were represented (farmers, fishers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, consumers, workers, NGOs, women and youth, as well as the three regions of Eastern
