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105, 2026

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, [...]

105, 2026

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 [...]

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 [...]