Agroecology: The Bold Future of Farming in Africa

(22 February 2017) – The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has launched a publication highlighting the huge potential of agroecology to feed Africa, fix broken food systems and repair damaged landscapes, providing abundant healthy and nutritious food sustainably while increasing incomes and improving climate resilience. The

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Permaculture practitioners meet academics: ‘Designing Research for the World We Want’

(17 February 2017) – In the latest edition of its newsletter the Permaculture Association has posted a report on a course that explored the ‘fertile edges’ of permaculture action-research. For a total of five days (9-13 October 2016), ‘Casa Vale da Lama’, an educational farm and eco-resort near Lagos,…

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Gaia Education Economic Design E-Learning course

(15 February 2017) – Gaia Education’s eight-week online course on Economic Design will start on 6 March. It is time to step up our efforts to co-create a transformative response to the converging crises we all face locally, regionally and globally. One of the highest leverage points for transformation…

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Farming for Biodiversity: Promising approaches wanted

(14 February 2017) – The Solution Search project is looking to identify and reward the most promising approaches to conserving biodiversity on agricultural lands. You could win up to $30,000 with additional side prizes for community/social impact, food security/nutrition impact, biodiversity impact and water impact. All finalists will attend a…

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Permaculture for Farms Conference

(09 February 2017) – The European Permaculture Network has just received a grant from the Visegrad Fund to conduct, on 17-19 July in Prague, a conference on permaculture farming and farm visits in Central Europe. The event will gather the best European permaculture farmers and experts, and participants will…

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Resilience, Community Action & Societal Transformation

(07 February 2017) – ‘Resilience, Community Action & Societal Transformation’, an ECOLISE publication, is a unique collection bridging research, theory and practical action to create more resilient societies. It includes accounts from people and organisations at the front line of efforts to build community resilience, cutting edge theory and…

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New Economy & Social Innovation (Malaga, Spain, 19-22 April 2017)

(31 January 2017) – ECOLISE is supporting the efforts of the Global Hub for the Common Good in organizing the first Global Forum, “New Economy & Social Innovation “ – NESI, to be held from 19th to the 22nd April 2017 in Malaga (Spain). The NESI Forum aims to…

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Taking a bird’s-eye view: the 4th meeting of national networks of GEN Europe

(18 January 2017) – After Torri Superiore (Italy), Los Portales (Spain), Park Istra (Slovenia) the fourth venue for the GEN national network meeting was Lebensbogen (Germany). 21 representatives from 12 countries gathered on 13-15 January to review and celebrate activities in 2016, and to develop plans for 2017. Many…

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The GROW Observatory needs your help!

(16 January 2017) – The GROW Observatory invites you to take part in a 15 minute survey to help inform how it develops. It is a short questionnaire that was put together to make sure that the project reflects and represents the needs, wants and desires of a…

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