Recent News

904, 2026

“Building Capacities” research article

Building Capacities in Regional Food Systems: Mapping change towards transformation This article, published in Agriculture and Human Values (April 2026), provides an overview of the FLOW Partnership and the concepts and methods underlying the research. [...]

904, 2026

Food Sovereignty series

Food Sovereignty Across Scales: Global Movements, Local Action is a collaborative series hosted by the Food Action Network of Northwestern Ontario, the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, the National Farmers Union of Ontario, Gaagige [...]

2303, 2026

Seed Saving in Sri Lanka

The Rajanganaya Indigenous Seed Protectors' Primary Agri-product Marketing Society is a prominent agroecology network in the Anuradhapura District of the North Central Province of Sri Lanka. For many years, this network has led the [...]

1803, 2026

Veracruz agroecology infographics

The Northern Veracruz region, on the east coast of Mexico, is an important citrus-growing region, accounting for approximately 50% of the country's production of oranges. While farming has often involved the use of glyphosate [...]

1803, 2026

Planning for Montréal Food Systems

FLOW's Montreal region's community partner, the Conseil SAM (Montreal Food Policy Council), has been organizing participatory workshops during 2025–26 to establish a common vision for the future of the Montreal food system. With the [...]

1610, 2025

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, navigate, and share their journeys toward transformation. Watch the video [...]

310, 2025

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 the key themes of power and resistance. Power and Resistance [...]

2309, 2025

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 both a vision and a practice for transforming food systems toward resilience, equity, [...]

2309, 2025

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 Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has [...]

209, 2025

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 agendas are gaining political clout. In his words, "school food campaigns can [...]

407, 2025

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 to support communities and organizations in Victoria, Australia in their [...]