News for Community Partners
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 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 [...]