Land, Governance and Community Power: Strategies for Sustainable Territorial Futures - 18th Agroecology Conversation
Description
AGROECOLOGY, the European Alliance 'Accelerating the Transition of Agricultural Systems: Laboratories of Life and Research Infrastructures in Agroecology', is a major European research and innovation project between the European Commission and 26 Member States, Associated Countries, and Third Countries. AGROECOLOGY will support an agricultural sector capable of meeting the objectives and challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and sovereignty, and the environment, while ensuring a profitable and attractive activity for farmers. A significant shift is needed to make the agricultural sector more sustainable, resilient, and responsive to social and political demands. Agroecology is based on natural and biological interactions, using cutting-edge science, technology, and innovation grounded in farmers' knowledge.
The Agroecology Conversations will be the first steps in strengthening agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) for the agroecological transition, facilitating links between Living Labs and research infrastructure stakeholders across Europe. These online agroecology conversations will take place monthly throughout the collaboration and will enable the mobilization and networking of agroecological actors in Europe and beyond.
Program
Land, Governance and Community Power: Strategies for Sustainable Territorial Futures - 18th Agroecology Conversation
- 13:00 - 13:05 Welcome - Taru Sandén (AGES, Austria)
- 13:05 - 13:20
Securing land rights for the transformation of agroecological food and feed systems: experiences of the ILC Network
Eva Maria Anyango Okoth (The International Earth Coalition, ILC)
The global food system is in crisis, characterized by severe climate impacts and the increasing shift towards large-scale industrial agriculture that disregards the knowledge of small-scale and family farmers, as well as livestock herders. In this context, agroecology offers a systemic pathway to restore the balance between people and the planet. In her presentation, Eva María will strongly advocate for why secure land and resource rights, championed by ILC members, form the basis for agroecological transformation. The presentation will draw on the practical experiences at the local level of the ILC's national multi-stakeholder platforms and the work of its members to promote agroecological initiatives through diverse, interconnected pathways, centering land governance on people.
- 13:20 - 13:35
Rural women as political subjects in Latin America: feminism, agroecology and the construction of resistance in the territories
Emma Siliprandi (International University of Andalusia)
In a context of socio-environmental crisis in Latin America—marked by land grabbing, evictions, ecological destruction, and violence—hunger and poverty are worsening among peasant and Indigenous communities. Women are often the most affected by this violence, but they are also the ones who, for decades, have organized resistance movements in these territories. In this presentation, based on concrete examples from the region, we will highlight the central role of rural women organized in political movements, in confronting agribusiness, the financialization of life, and territorial violence, while building grassroots alternatives based on agroecology, feminism, and care practices.
- 13:35 - 14:00
Conversation and debate - Taru Sandén and Ana Pires da Silva
Language: English only
Contact:
- AGES-Akademie Spargelfeldstraße 191 A-1220 Wien
- Telephone: +43 50 555-25201
- Email: akademie@ages.at
