Lagos Food Bank Initiative
Serving up food and economic empowerment in Africa’s largest city.
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Agricultures Network
This global network facilitates knowledge co-creation and advocacy within the community and with farmer organizations, researchers, academia, agriculture extension, and civil society actors. They produce regional/global magazines with a readership of approximately 1 million.
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Agroecology Case Studies
This collection of 33 African case studies counters dominant narratives about agricultural investments and land grabbing and shows the potential of agroecological methods to raise incomes, sustain productivity, improve livelihoods, and adapt to climate change. These examples can be used to show that Africans have found successful solutions to their own problems.
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Brazil’s National Plan for Agroecology and Organic Food Production
Brazil’s plan follows six strategic axes: 1) production; 2) use and conservation of natural resources; 3) dissemination of knowledge; 4) commercialization and consumption; 5) land and territory; and 6) socio biodiversity. The goal is to improve the quality of life of the population by working toward sustainable rural development and increased consumption of healthy food.
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Climate Resilient Zero Budget Natural Farming
CR ZBNF, in Andhra Pradesh, India, currently engages 180,000 farmers and plans to scale to 6 million farmers by 2024. ZBNF seeks to increase yields and promote resilience through agroecological processes.
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Community Markets for Conservation
This initiative seeks to work toward healthy soil, healthy food, and a healthy diet in rural Zambia. The program equipped participants with farmer training in agroecological approaches and diversification with the goal of generating an alternative income and livelihood to the (illegal) hunting of wildlife.
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Drylands Natural Resources Centre
DNRC works in Kenya to regenerate dryland resources holistically. It addresses three pillars of development: environmental, economic, and social.
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Eosta
EOSTA is a business dedicated to producing and importing sustainable, organic, and fair trade fruits and vegetables. They provide full traceability of their products, provide extension services to farmers, promote true cost accounting, and build a sustainable market with consumers.
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Farmer to Farmer Agroecology Movement
This initiative focuses on Cuban farmer autonomy through agroecological practices, participatory plant breeding, and farmer-to-farmer approaches. It was assisted by the Ministry of Higher Education and worked through changing researchers’ ideas about agriculture and agroecology.
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Hivos Sustainable Food
This initiative promotes healthy and sustainable food systems for all through different levels of strategy and intervention. The first strategy is to invest in small and medium enterprises.
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Institute for Sustainable Development
This farmer-led initiative, based in Ethiopia, works closely with rural agricultural communities to alleviate poverty, improve food security, and rehabilitate the degraded environment. They provide education and extension services on using local inputs to enhance soil fertility and nutrition.
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International Network for Community Supported Agriculture
URGENCI is both a community of practice and a network of partners affiliated with community supported agriculture (CSA) programs. The goal is to transform the food system through promoting CSA policy, disseminating food sovereignty and solidarity economy, and working with similar social movements.
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MASIPAG
This initiative is a longstanding, farmer-led network of civil society organizations, NGOs, and scientists in the Philippines. The goals are to sustainably manage biodiversity through farmer-controlled seeds and biological resources.
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Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
This pact, signed by 150 cities globally and led by Milan, provides 37 suggested actions through voluntary guidelines that work toward sustainable food systems. It also engages with the mayors of cities to recognize their role in making changes.
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North East India Slow Food and Biodiversity Society
NESFAS is a network of NGOs, institutions, governments, and like-minded people in Meghalaya, India. They aim to enhance local biodiversity and food sovereignty through the conservation, promotion, and dissemination of traditional Indigenous knowledge and farming systems.
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Organic Valley
This independent farmers’ cooperative in the United States works to support middle-sized agriculture through a cooperative structure. They believe that agroecology is the only sustainable way forward and that education is the key to this transformation.
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SEKEM Initiative
This private-sector initiative based in Egypt has four pillars of sustainability: societal, cultural, economic, and ecological. They operate under fair trade and fair pricing principles, promote good governance, focus on education at all levels, believe in holistic approaches to building fertile soils, add value through local processing, and guarantee price and income security for farmers.
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Soils, Food, and Healthy Communities
This initiative, based out of Malawi, focuses on gender and social equity and nutrition and health. They work with communities using transformative, participatory methods of training on agroecological practice and discussions about nutrition, gender, and governance.
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Timbaktu Collective
An NGO, Timbaktu works with those who are marginalized (women, men, children, the landless, and the disabled) in a rural province in India. They believe in autonomy and help set up people-owned business enterprises.
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Vanuatu 2030
This initiative is Vanuatu’s national sustainable development plan. It builds alternate pathways to sustainability based on culture, values, natural wealth, and indicators of happiness.
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World Food System Center at ETH Zürich
The WFSC at the ETH Zürich aims to support transformation toward sustainable food systems through applied, systematic research. This integrated research supports healthy food production, food and nutrition security, environmental sustainability, and social well-being.
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Zero Waste San Francisco
This initiative works to reorganize waste management in San Francisco through the shift to a circular system. Their approaches target growers through waste reduction campaigns; wholesale markets through links to food banks; diversion from animal feed; retail food date issues; food establishments; diversion of grease and fat; consumer behaviours; information technology; composting; policy on labels; and recycling mandates.
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