Earlier this month, our Deputy Director Lauren Baker joined a remarkable convening of agroecological researchers, practitioners, and funders organized by Global Alliance member, the McKnight Foundation. Together, they explored how grounded agroecological research can shape policy, unlock better financing, and shift the narratives driving our food systems.
A community garden on Tucson's northside has been helping feed local families for more than 15 years — and organizers say it can keep growing and fighting food insecurity for years to come. The Keeling Community Garden, home to 16 families growing food for themselves and their neighbors, is expanding with a new pollinator garden and additional plots. Nonprofits across the city help keep the garden thriving.
For decades, farmers had been attacking and destroying Guarani villages, installing huge cattle ranches and corn, sugarcane and soya plantations on stolen Indigenous land and gunning down Guarani people if they resisted and tried to re-occupy their ancestral home. And for decades, the gunmen did this in the shadows, largely unchecked by the authorities and ignored by the world’s media.
The African Segment of the Global Earth Repair Convergence, running 8–10 May 2026 online via Zoom, under the theme Repairing Landscapes, Agriculture, Livelihoods & Systems. It sits within the broader global event (7–11 May), which draws 500+ in-person participants in Washington State and thousands more online worldwide.
As Trilogue negotiations on the Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) Regulation intensify, the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB), Biodynamic Federation Demeter International, and IFOAM Organics Europe have written to EU Ministers of Agriculture calling for a final text that does not place unnecessary restrictions on conservation and local varieties.
A study on the criminalization of farmers exercising their right to save, use, exchange and sell seeds under plant breeders’ rights laws.