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This storytelling series features six case studies of fisher communities organizing for justice and food sovereignty across land and water. These stories surface strategies of resistance, resilience, and survival in the face of systemic injustice and extractive economies. We begin with two stories from Uganda and South Africa.
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This storytelling series features six case studies of fisher communities organizing for justice and food sovereignty across land and water. These stories surface strategies of resistance, resilience, and survival in the face of systemic injustice and extractive economies. We begin with two stories from Uganda and South Africa.
Photo credit: IKEA Foundation (Global Alliance member), Kilimo Trust & ICIPE (Kenya)
New analysis highlights pathways to scale investment in regenerative and agroecological food systems for funders, governments, development finance institutions, and private investors across six regions—Kenya, Tanzania, India, Brazil, the U.S. Midwest, and Europe.
Rooted in Justice is a storytelling gallery featuring eight food justice leaders sharing stories of land, identity, resistance, and healing—coming from Canada, USA & China, Nepal, Ghana, Mexico, Myanmar, Palestine, and Peru.
In this op-ed in Climate Home News, Anna Lappé and Lena Luig explore how conflict in the Middle East exposes the fragility of fossil-fuel–dependent food systems—driving up fertilizer prices, intensifying food insecurity, and heightening the urgency for agroecological alternatives.
19 March 2026
In this FAO Agroecology Knowledge Hub Digest article, Lauren Baker outlines how coordinated finance can accelerate regenerative and agroecological food systems transitions.
04 February 2026
Anna Lappé joins KPFA Radio’s Terra Verde to discuss the health, climate, and food system implications of proposed U.S. dietary guidelines prioritizing red meat and dairy.
20 January 2026
In this Common Dreams op-ed, Ysabel A. Calderón Carlos shares how native bees reveal the deep links between food, climate, and biodiversity—and why phasing out agrochemicals is essential for a just, regenerative future this COP30.
17 November 2025
In this Food Tank op-ed, Fabrício Muriana explains how ensuring 30% of food at COP30 is sourced from local, agroecological farmers transforms the dining experience into a powerful statement and a direct, tangible pathway for climate action.
12 November 2025
In this Food Tank Q&A, Anna Lappé discusses centring food systems at COP30, challenging the myth of fossil fuel-intensive farming, and the policy changes and agroecological movements needed to create a just, climate-friendly food future.
14 November 2025
In this Columbia Magazine article, Anna Lappé, Executive Director, reflects on the urgent need to reform our industrialized food systems that put profits ahead of health and affordability.
18 August 2025
In DeSmog’s investigation, Anna Lappé, Executive Director, is cited among experts raising concern over how nonprofits are being used to provide cover for the industrial beef industry’s climate messaging.
06 August 2025
At the 2025 TCA Accelerator Summit, momentum grew to put True Cost Accounting into action—driving better policy, funding, and fairer food systems.
02 June 2025
As aid budgets are slashed, now is the time to shift funding away from agrochemicals, and toward resilient, community-led farming.
28 May 2025
At COP30, Brazil can lead on food and climate by addressing hunger, fossil-fueled food systems, and advancing just, agroecological solutions.
30 April 2025
Dive into the disturbing ways the pesticide industry is attacking its critics, and the dangers this poses to both biodiversity and public health.
29 October 2024
07 March 2025
19 February 2025
Letter to the Editor, New York Times: “Changing How We Grow Our Food” by Anna Lappé
04 January 2025
Annual Members’ Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, 2025
Updates from the Global Alliance about food systems transformation.
BATI, Canada. Photo credit: Jesse Winter. This image was taken as part of our Beacons of Hope: Stories from the Land-Water Nexus series.
24 Mar 2026
From northern Australia to coastal British Columbia in Canada, Indigenous communities are reclaiming stewardship of their waters—organizing for sovereignty, food security, and ecological renewal. Explore the newest stories in our Beacons of Hope: Stories from the Land–Water Nexus series.
Photo credit: Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), Beacons of Hope
18 Dec 2025
The Agroecology Fund just received the wonderful news that they are one of the latest recipients in MacKenzie Scott’s latest round of more than $7 billion in grantmaking.
17 Dec 2025
Our Executive Director Anna Lappé shares her experience from participating as part of a donor delegation at the at the Nyéléni Global Forum in Kandy, Sri Lanka in September 2025.
Organic farmer Pius Paulini (right) has already trained more than 100 other farmers. Mama Doreth, a good customer of the SAT organic shop and nutrition expert, sends the vegetables to her relatives in Dar es Salaam. Photo credit: Biovision & TOAM
20 Nov 2025
In this blog, Mwatima Juma, of Msonge Organic Family Farm and Chair of the Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement, explores why organic and ecological agriculture is key to resilient food systems—and how targeted investments can unlock national transformation.
