Recent News
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 [...]
Understanding Agroecology’s Connections
Currently attending the COP16 (United Nations Biodiversity Conference) meetings in Cali, Columbia, FLOW friends from the Agroecology Coalition have recently shared these short, animated video clips, helping to explain the connections that agroecological practices [...]
Montreal Job Posting: Project Coordinator
The Montreal FLOW Team is hiring! Want to join a team of researchers and faculty who are working with community organizations to build more resilient and equitable food systems in Montreal? We are seeking [...]
Updates from Brazil (Oct. 2024)
The Southern Brazil team is working to strengthen traditional erva-mate production systems for farming families and Indigenous communities in Southern Paraná. Over the past months, the team has continued community engagement efforts by conducting [...]
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 [...]
FLOW is recruiting PhD positions!
The Food Learning and Growing (FLOW) Partnership is hiring for multiple PhD positions to support key thematic areas of the Regional FLOW Teams. PhD positions will be hosted at partnering institutions, and candidates must [...]
Podcast: Voices of FLOW
During the launch meeting in Montreal in May 2024, local podcaster David Szanto spent some time talking with members of the expanded project team to learn more about food and food systems in their [...]
FLOW receives SSHRC funding!
The FLOW Partnership was formally awarded funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in Summer 2023. We are excited to get the ball rolling and start working with our international network [...]
FLOW in Montreal
The FLOW Partnership team met in Montreal, Québec, Canada from May 13 to 17, 2024, to formally kick things off. Over the four days, the regional partners shared their project objectives, methods, and team [...]