News for Community Partners
“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 [...]
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 [...]