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Celebrating the Food Sovereignty Prize on World Food Day
On World Food Day this Saturday, two organizations will be recognized by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance for their commitment to promoting food sovereignty. “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples...
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West Africa Visit in Photos
Two members of our coordination team recently returned from a trip to West Africa to meet with our colleagues and partners, and the farmers we work with to build a healthier and more equitable food...
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Groundswell International & Food First Launch Highly Anticipated Book on...
This past Tuesday, June 5, Groundswell International Executive Director, Steve Brescia and Food First Executive Director, Eric Holt-Gimenez, joined friends and fans at Busboys and Poets for the...
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Lessons from West Africa: Five Leverage Points
Our dynamic program in West Africa works with partners in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Ghana, who collaborate and exchange to sharpen their strategies to better catalyze community-based and...
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The Agroecology +6 Framework Builds Rapid Resilience in the Sahel
In Africa’s Sahel region, the trifecta of drought, erratic rainfall and degraded lands make farmers particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Groundswell and its partners in West Africa...
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Mali Drives FMNR for Over Two Decades
Mali, part of West Africa’s notoriously barren Sahel region, birthed FMNR (farmer managed natural regeneration) out of necessity. Between 1960-1990 a confluence of causes collided to give rise to...
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Groundswell Publishes Agroecology Plus Six Case Studies and Policy Notes
Dear Friends, Groundswell International supports farmer-led innovation to strengthen and amplify agroecology. The urgent task in West Africa is to support, assess and document effective strategies, so...
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Proven Conservation Agriculture Methods You Can Implement Today
We’re happy to have been featured in a recent article by Lars Berg of @RE.think. Make sure you visit their page and share this article to celebrate the great news! Below you’ll find a short clip, full...
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Agroecology as an alternative (Video four of a four-part series)
Friends, Groundswell is working with partners in West Africa and allies across the continent to create ground up agroecological alternatives and shift government support to scale them. Please take a...
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Calling For a Brown Revolution and Regreening to Restore Soils
by Peter Gubbels, Director of Action Learning and Advocacy, West Africa When meeting with an assembly of rural villagers in the Kaffrine region of Senegal 3 years ago, I inquired about the main...
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