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International Agroecology Forum, Mali.
Report on the International Agroecology Forum to address Food Sovereignty, Mali, 24-27 February 2015. This important global meeting was organised by IPC (International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty), and hosted by the CNOP (Confédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes) at the Nyéléni training centre in Mali. The main objective was to
Advocating the cause of CSA at the level of the FAO
by Judith Hitchman, Urgenci Advocacy Officer CFS41 in Rome, on October 13-18, 2014, was a particularly active moment for the URGENCI team of Andrea Calori and Judith Hitchman. It proved to be a rich and fruitful outcome of several different levels of work carried out in recent months. Judith had been moderating
Nutrition is not for profit
Nutrition is not for profit: Second International Conference on Nutrition La Via Campesina and URGENCI, jointly with other Social movements, gathered in Rome on November 19-21, 2014, for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), where Member States of FAO and WHO are discussing and adopting a framework for action
REKO – a winning concept in Finland!
REKO has in a very short period became a great success in bringing producers and consumers together, and at the same time created local networks and logistics for locally produced food. During the last 30-40 years, direct selling from producers to consumers has significantly decreased in Finland. Since a few
Working Paper on Advocacy and Short Distribution Chains
The emergence of social movements: Community Supported Agriculture, between Food Sovereignty and Solidarity Economy. The end of the 20th century can be characterised by the emergence of both extreme forms of globalisation of trade and of social movements. The spaces in which the latter emerged were not only the World
Publications by group members
In English Balázs B. (2012) Local Food System Development in Hungary. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 19:3, 403-421. Brunori G., A. Rossi and F. Guidi (2012). On the new social relations around and beyond food. Analysing consumers’ role and action in Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (Solidarity Purchasing Groups).
CSA Research Group People
Bálint Balázs is a senior research fellow of the Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG) and lecturer of environmental sociology at the Department of Environmental Economics, Institute of Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, St. István University, Gödöllő, Hungary. He is a board member of the Environment & Society Research Network
Farmers of CSA: Croatia, July 2014
Croatian workshop started on the 17th of July with the meeting point in Kunstcafe Cvajner where everybody gathered before heading to dinner. The visiting part took place around central Istria where we begun our journey with local medicnal herm farm running by Komić familly. We went from Pula at 8:00h
Community based Food Initiatives: Hungary, May 2014
By: Zsofia Perényi The first visit of the LetSFS Grundtvig Learning Partnerships project was organised in Hungary by TVE. The programme focused on the management of community based food initiatives – including everyday management and also community building related topics. All together 19 participants came to the Hungarian workshop from
CSA Demetria in Brazil
CSA Demetria as a pioneer project for CSA Brasil By Johanna Abeln, Intern at Demetria CSA Farm, Brazil. The initiative for community‐supported agriculture exists now for about 3 years in Brazil. 12 km away from the city of Botucatu and 240 km away from the metropolis Sao Paulo the native
Evolution of ASAT Partnerships in Romania
Jocelyn Parot, “Evolution of ASAT partnerships in Romania, and the role of small-scale farmers and groups of urban consumers in strengthening the model”, August 2013. Report from the ASAT Workshop held during the Final Conference of the project „Models of Good Practice in the Social Inclusion Area”, in Timisoara, 16 May 2013.
The CSA movement in the UK
The CSA Movement in the UK, by Kirstin Glendinning, Member of the former International Committee of Urgenci – 2010. The CSA movement in the UK is led by the Soil Association, the UK’s largest organic certifying body and lobbying charity. Between 2002 -2005 the Soil Association ran a CSA development
