RIAC Nourishing Agroecologies for the Care of Rural Economies and their Seeds
Check out the music video Amigos de In’nah made with RIAC youth Ana Poot and Nikki Schuster
Webinar Summary Seeds & Knowledge/ Resumen Webinario Semillas y Saberes
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Sharing Seeds of Knowledge and Learning Among Youth Networks: Towards Food Sovereignty and Autonomies across Territories
Here we weave networks!
From the Community Agroecology Network (CAN), we want to continue weaving initiatives to meet, listen to each other, inspire each other, and learn collectively toward food sovereignty through agroecological exchanges.
That’s why we invite
Dignified and Community Agro Food Systems in 2025!
CAN Support the persistence of rural communities and their agroecologies. These grow from the restoration of microorganisms, the integration of youth into community markets, elders and youth learning from each other, and building dignified livelihoods intertwined with forest ecologies.
Multiplying Native Soil Microorganisms for Milpa Planting Nurtures the Swarm of Life
The CAN team connect Tierras Milperas with RIAC youth from Nicaragua who share videos, manual guides, and through virtual sessions share successful practice of preparing and using native forest microorganisms to regenerate cultivated soils.
Community Agroecology Markets Rooted in Solidarity Economies Nurture de Swarm of Life
CAJAC, our community of learning and practice in southern Mexico focused on agroecology, youth and solidarity economies, convened for its final encuentro last October. Building from the values of ancestral markets in this region the event took the form of a community market and fair where people gathered to build relationships, exchange knowledge and trade goods,.
RIAC: A Swarm of Land Knowledges
RIAC: A Swarm of Youth Knowledges
“While there are fires used to harm, there are also fires that feed and regenerate.”
This year RIAC youth and CAN celebrated our 11th International Youth Exchange in Agroecology
Youth Building Collective Power Towards Food Sovereignty
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“We continue to resist and connect with the wisdom of our grandparents on how to cultivate the land. [At the Intercambio] we learned new food recipes and we learned
No to Corporate Food Systems!
No to Corporate Food Systems!
Yes to Food Sovereignty!
On the 25th anniversary of food sovereignty, CAN reaffirms its commitment to work toward justice in our food system. Food sovereignty is a strategy of struggle for people to define their own agricultural policies, and protect their food ways, cultures, and ecologies, in direct opposition to the exploitation of people
September 2020 Newsletter
“Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.”
“They Can Cut All the Flowers, but They Cannot Stop Spring from Coming.”
-Pablo Neruda
Painted in a solid purple, this quote from the renowned Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, stood out boldly from the side of a garden