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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
“Welcome home!”: FLOW in Kenya
From May 25 to 29, 2026, FLOW partners met at Rongo University in Migori County, Kenya, to participate in a very generative series of meetings, presentations, and workshops focused on the theme of agroecology. [...]
Diversification and Resilience in Mexico
Diversification to strengthen the resilience of agroecological farming FLOW–CIIDRI-UACh Alliance Farmers in northern Veracruz are strengthening diversified agroecological systems, boosting productivity while working towards an Agroecological Seal, an indicator of agroecology standards. These initiatives [...]
The Yellow Dragon
This poem was written by Sarah Barnett, Erin Cunningham, Monia Nahili, and Anisa Synowicki—University of Guelph students from FLOW team member Erin Nelson's Development Practice class. It was created to share the positive impacts [...]
UNESCO Youth for Peace
UNESCO Youth for Peace Programme – Applications Open! Applications for the second edition of the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme are open until 19 July 2026 at 23:59 CEST (Paris time). [...]
Rural Youth in Brazil
Rural Youth on the Move: CEDErva and Itaipu sign agreement to implement a project in central-south Paraná for socio-environmental cooperation The Center for the Development and Education of Traditional Erva-Mate Systems (CEDErva), in partnership [...]
Ecological Farming in Sri Lanka
(adapted from the Sri Lanka Dept. of Agriculture Facebook page) Possibility of Advancing Ecological Farming in Sri Lanka! A highly productive discussion was held on June 15, 2026 at the Department of Agriculture in Peradeniya, [...]
Podcast: Voicing Change—Erva-Mate
The Brazil FLOW team has launched their final Voicing Change podcast episode about women erva-mate producers, including their challenges and resilient responses. Listen to "Voices of Erva-Mate: Episode 6 — Women of Erva-Mate: Work, [...]
Granja Kokopelli
In Veracruz State, Mexico, the regional team works with a number of different community partners, including the citrus production network, CIIDRI, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rural Development, and Granja Kokopelli. The text [...]
“Building Capacities” research article
"Building Capacities in Regional Food Systems: Mapping change towards transformation," published in Agriculture and Human Values (April 2026), provides an overview of the FLOW Partnership and the concepts and methods underlying the research. See [...]
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 [...]
