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6th ICSAC in Beijing – First impressions
As the General Secretary of Urgenci, I want to send you all a huge thank you for your participation in the 6th International Symposium on Community Supported Agriculture. Thanks for your open-minded, hard-working, spirit. This event was a perfect reflection of our movement: thanks to your dedication, we represented a
The 6th International CSA Symposium in China
Urgenci is holding its 6th International CSA Conference in the Beijing Shunyi district (China) on November 19th-21st, in conjunction with the 7th Chinese national CSA conference. Thanks to Shi Yan and her team of organizers from around the world, more than 60 foreign delegates together with 350 Chinese participants will
Call for global mobilization for Food Sovereignty on October 16th!
Worldwide Alliance of Small Scale Food Producers Organisations launch: Call for global mobilization for Food Sovereignty on October 16th Press Release, 3rd September 2015 Small scale food producer organisations organized through the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) met in CopNaad, Mera in Gujarat, India to have their General
European CSA Research group meeting, August 2015
The European CSA Research Group meeting, August 26-27 near Freiburg (Germany) Report by Peter Volz, September 2015. The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement is being increasingly recognized for offering an alternative to the unsustainable industrial food system and thus a concrete approach in the transition towards agroecology and food sovereignty.
LetSFS event in Poland by Vratislava Janovská
The event of LetSFS project “Learning from CSA pioneers”, that took place in Poland in March 2015 was captured by Czech participant Vraťka Janovská, whose main concern is Access to land which was nicely and visually connected with CSA in this presentation:
Report on the LeTSFS workshop held in Berlin, Germany
From Thursday 18th to Sunday 22nd September 2014 a total of 26 people from the 7 LeTSFS partner countries gathered in Berlin to visit local food production and distribution projects and to discuss the various issues arising from these and other experiences of such projects.
Ellinor Lindahl and Lina Hirsch on meeting in Hungary
Ellinor Lindahl and Lina Hirsch from farming cooperative Concrete Farming had the chance to travel to Hungary to take part in the CSA (community supported agriculture) workshop and study visit on. Here they tell us about their trip: At the end of May, we had the pleasure to be two
Claudia Ciobanu: CSA movement slowly growing in Europe
In May 2014 Hungarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Italian and Swedish activists got together in Vac, near Budapest, to discuss food activism in their countries, including RWS models (the English term, Community Supported Agriculture, was mostly used during the meeting). It was an amazing opportunity to see the level of development
Vlaďka Kršičková describes workshop in Pula
I was pleased with the diversity of all participants of the meeting. There were not just farmers, different CAS active supporters, NGO workers but also the future farmers for whom this meeting could be very valuable. We couldn’t have wished better combination of people for exchanging information. The farms we
Shi Yan @ CFS on “Connecting Smallholders to Markets”, Rome, June 25th.
Shi Yan, Urgenci’s Chinese Vice-President recently played a very important role in a one-day High Level Forum on Connecting Smallholders to Markets organised by the Committee on World Food Security in Rome on 25th June. She was chosen as Discussant for the event. This allowed her to put social movements’
Czech CSAs through the eyes of Daniel Szelenyi
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Urgenci 2015 GA Survey
Urgenci’s next General Assembly (GA) will be held on November 22nd, 2015 following our International CSA conference and farm visits in China. The goals of the GA are to assess activities carried out since the last symposium in California in 2013, conduct elections for the next International Committee, and chart
