The FLOW (Food, Learning and Growing) Partnership
The goal of the FLOW Partnership is to support, track, and communicate about sustainable, resilient regional food systems through an extensive international network of food system researchers, practitioners, and community partners. Our research will map and monitor the pathways between specific practices and impacts across social, environmental, and economic factors as we work to build increasingly just, equitable, ecological, and circular regional food systems.
With our partner organizations, and through the support of an international panel of Expert Advisors, we will create compelling, indicator-driven narratives about the interrelated effects that these practices have on the regional level, using them to amplify meaningful, long-term change among a range of audiences. In all, FLOW will contribute to innovation in both the theory and practice of sustainable regional food systems.
FLOW’s Regional Partners
Learn more about our community and institutional partners on each region’s profile page.
latest news
Telling Regional Stories webinar
On November 20, 2025, FLOW hosted the webinar, “Telling Regional Stories: Place-Based Food System Change,” which focused on the question of how city-regions define, […]
Power & Resistance webinar
On September 18, 2025, the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies hosted a FLOW webinar focused on how the partnership regions manifest […]
Agroecology in Action (webinar)
On Thursday October 9, 2025, the FLOW team hosted the webinar, “Agroecology in Action: Stories of Resilient Food Systems.”
Agroecology offers […]
HLPE Report: Building Resilient Food Systems
Thanks to the dedicated efforts of an editorial team from around the world, the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the […]
Transforming School Food Politics
FLOW advisor Kevin Morgan‘s recently published review of Transforming School Food Politics around the World (MIT Press, 2024) demonstrates how school […]
Food Resilience Planning Toolkit
Foodprint Melbourne, out of the University of Melbourne, has launched the “Victorian Food Resilience Planning Toolkit,” a framework and set of steps that aims […]
Karungu Workshop, Migori County
On April 5, 2025, a one-day workshop was held at St. Agnes Okuodo Secondary School in Nyatike Subcounty, Migori County, bringing together local farmer groups to build […]
Future Harvest Partnership Project
In February 2025, FLOW academic lead for the Northwest Territories, Andrew Spring, was at the Territorial Agrifood Association‘s GROW Conference (TAA-GROW) in Yellowknife, presenting […]
Participatory Food Goverance Report
The Participatory Food Systems Governance (PFG) team out of Lakehead University’s Sustainable Food Systems Lab recently announced the release of their latest report, “Understanding […]
GIAHS designation for Erva-mate
After extensive work on the part of the Brazil FLOW team, the traditional agroforestry system of shade-grown Erva-mate in the Araucaria Forest of Parana, Brazil has […]
Kevin Morgan interview
In January 2025, Elodie Valette—a researcher with Cirad, the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization—interviewed Kevin Morgan about his work leading up to the publication of […]
Kevin Morgan book launch & panel
On February 6, 2025, the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies, supported by the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, hosted a […]
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The FLOW Partnership is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University acts as the project’s institutional manager.
