People’s knowledge transforming the food system

Everyday Experts – How Peoples Knowledge Can Transform the Food System  is a recently published open access edited book from the Centre of Agroecology Water and Resilience of Coventry University. The book explains how knowledge built up through first-hand experience can help solve the crises in our food system – at home and abroad.   It Read more about People’s knowledge transforming the food system[…]

Global Food Governance. Between corporate control and shaky democracy

Global Food Governance. Between corporate control and shaky democracy is a new policy brief from the Development and Peace Fondation (sef) that looks at the potentials of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) for innovative global policy making.  The author -Nora McKeon- looks at the characteristics, challenges and potential of the CFS as a Read more about Global Food Governance. Between corporate control and shaky democracy[…]

Saving for a dry-day. The role of Self-help Groups in building resilience

Tearfund organised a learning event last September 5th to launch its publication Saving for a dry-day highlighting the results of six research studies commissioned to assess the impact of Tearfund’s approach to Self-Help Groups programming on people living in poverty in the Horn of Africa. Research was undertaken by a variety of external evaluators and Read more about Saving for a dry-day. The role of Self-help Groups in building resilience[…]