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announcements
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 his book, Serving the Public: the good [...]
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 panel discussion to celebrate the launch of Dr. Kevin Morgan's [...]
Online course in Sustainable Food
Thanks to FLOW expert advisor, Malek Batal (Canada Research Chair in Nutrition and Health Inequalities) and his research lab at l'Université de Montréal, a new online course in Sustainable Food Systems is now on [...]
PhD opportunity at Uni Melbourne
The FLOW partners at the University of Melbourne (Australia) are currently offering a PhD research degree opportunity in regional governance for resilient, healthy, and equitable food systems. The application closing date is January 15, [...]
Faris Ahmed on COP16 (CBC Radio)
FLOW Partnership Expert Advisor, Faris Ahmed, appeared on the CBC's Ottawa Morning radio show on Oct. 24, 2024, discussing his perspectives on the COP16 meeting in Cali, Colombia. Listen as he sums up how [...]
Transforming Food Systems (by Molly Anderson)
In July 2024, FLOW Partnership Expert Advisor Molly Anderson published her new book, Transforming Food Systems: Narratives of Power (Routledge). From the publisher's website: "This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives [...]
Mexico’s planned glyphosate ban (The Conversation)
In August 2024, team leaders for the Veracruz region FLOW project published "Mexico’s planned glyphosate ban helped show how agroecology can lead the way forward," an article in The Conversation, highlighting the issues around [...]
Podcast: Brazil’s “Voices of Mate”
The Center for the Development and Education of Traditional Erva-Mate Systems—CEDErva—is a collaborative network of people who have an interest in the production and development of traditional erva-mate cultivation. A key regional partner for FLOW's [...]
press releases
“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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Murilo Carlos Siqueira’s master’s thesis defence
Congratulations to Murilo Carlos Siqueira, a master's degree student working with the Brazil FLOW team, who recently defended his master's thesis! The project is titled, "Erveiros of Paraná: The impact of public policies on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
