News for Community Partners
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, [...]
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 [...]
Karungu Workshop, Migori County
On April 5, 2025, a one-day workshop was held at St. Agnes Okuodo Secondary School in Nyatike Subcounty, Migori County, bringing together local farmer groups to build capacity in sustainable food systems and climate [...]
GIAHS designation for Erva-mate
After extensive work on the part of the Brazil FLOW team, the traditional agroforestry system of shade-grown Erva-mate in the Araucaria Forest of Parana, Brazil has been designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]