New Year, New Decade and New Logo for URGENCI
We feel that collectively, this new era requires fresh energies and ever-greater cooperation between producers and consumers. And a new look.
CSA is Growing Big in the Netherlands!
Five years ago there were only five initiatives, now there are over 90. In Flanders, de part of Belgium where the same language is used as the Netherlands, the CSA network is a bit more advanced: their formal association exists for several years now and many CSA initiatives as well.
Deck to Dish: Increasing the Visibility and the Resilience of the Community Supported Fisheries Movement
The Istanbul-based fishers cooperative Birlik, Local Catch, the USA Community Supported Fisheries network and the French small-scale fishers' platform Pleine Mer, URGENCI and TNI met on 18th and 19th October in Amsterdam to launch a joint CSF mapping, training and capacity building endeavour.
Community Supported Agriculture and Climate Change
How does the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) contribute to the fight against global warming? Judith Hitchman, President of Urgenci, explains the role of Community Supported Agriculture and its benefits in mitigating our impact on the climate.
The European Community Supported Agriculture Movement Supports the Common Agriculture and Food Policy for Radical Ecological Change
URGENCI, the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)1 network and its national members from 12 European countries held an advocacy capacity building session in Brussels. This training session took place on the 14th, 15th, 16th of May. CSA advocates had an unprecedented opportunity to share experience and to refine their key messages.
Healthy Food from Healthy Soils
Webinar on Agricultural Strategies and CSA Welcome to the second session of the 2019 CSA Webinar Series! Our webinar, scheduled on 17... Read More
More Farmers, Better Food: Nyeleni Europe Releases a Position Paper on the CAP
29 March 2019 – Sustainable small farmers should be put at the core of EU agricultural policy, according to a new paper... Read More
Another Food System is possible
How does the German Bidding Round system work in practice? Here is an example from January 2019 from Solawi Marburg-Giessen.
New energies, and a new team in the URGENCI International Committee
Over 300 URGENCI International Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) network delegates representing over 2 million members from all over the world have just spent three days gathered in Thessaloniki (Greece) for the 7th Urgenci International CSA network meeting, as well as the 4th European gathering and the 2nd Mediterranean Network meeting.
The Mediterranean Network: Agroecology and Solidarity from Rabat to Beyrouth
URGENCI has been able to organize a permanent working strand, aiming at developing modular training activities around the Mediterranean Sea Basin. Two "common training frame editing workshops" have been organized. The first one was held in Rabat, Morocco, in June 2018. The second one is scheduled to start on the 30th of October 2018 in Algiers, Algeria, and to last until the 2nd of November 2018.