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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
LET SFS workshop and study visit Malmö, Sweden 21st-24th May
12 partners from the partners in the LETSFS project gathered in Malmö in May to talk about CSA and urban agriculture in Malmö. Thursday 21st May In the evening we had a first meeting for everyone to get to know each other at Sofielunds Folekts Hus. The participants had a
Tereza Jursová – Learning from CSA pioneers in Poland
Learning towards Solidarity-based Food Systems project meeting in Poland titled Learning from CSA pioneers through images by Tereza Jursová.
Tereza Jursová – Farming united with a social field in Italy
Learning towards Solidarity-based Food Systems project meeting in Italy on 2nd-5th October 2014 in Milan visualised by Tereza Jursová
CSA thriving in China
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between producers and consumers is strengthened. And China has not been left
Learning from CSA pioneers: farming, rural development and cooperation with consumers from a Polish perspective
The 5th international gathering of the project „Learning Towards Solidarity-based Food Systems” took place in Poland between 19th and 22nd of March 2015. The event gathered 19 international guests from 7 different countries and another 9 Polish participants representing various initiatives in Poland and abroad. The aim of the gathering
Challenges in solidarity-based food chains, Italy, October 2014
The Italian LeTSFS workshop started on Thursday evening with an aperitif offered by the Amici del Parco Trotter Association. The meeting point was in front of the auditorium (a former church) inside the park, where the participants could meet the organizers and their hosts, as family hospitality was provided by
Urgenci @ Expo dei Popoli – People’s Expo in Milan, June 3rd-5th.
People’s Expo: NGOs’ and Peasant’s Movements’ Response to Feeding the Planet Sustainably Three days of conferences, meetings and cultural events concerning Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice On June 3rd-5th, the People’s Expo, an international forum of civil society and peasant’s movements brang together over 150 delegates from all over the
