News for Policy Makers
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, [...]
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 [...]
Transforming School Food Politics
FLOW advisor Kevin Morgan's recently published review of Transforming School Food Politics around the World (MIT Press, 2024) demonstrates how school food agendas are gaining political clout. In his words, "school food campaigns can [...]
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 [...]
Future Harvest Partnership Project
In February 2025, FLOW academic lead for the Northwest Territories, Andrew Spring, was at the Territorial Agrifood Association's GROW Conference (TAA-GROW) in Yellowknife, presenting the Future Harvest Partnership (FHP). The FHP focuses on research [...]
Participatory Food Goverance Report
The Participatory Food Systems Governance (PFG) team out of Lakehead University's Sustainable Food Systems Lab recently announced the release of their latest report, "Understanding Food Systems Governance in a Changing World: The Canadian Food [...]
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 [...]