We’re #hiring for a Director of Climate and Nature!

Could you help shape the global conversation about climate and food systems transformation?

Please share with anyone you think would love this job! Apply by end of May ⬇️ bit.ly/4dnl5y6 #climatejobs

New fellowship opportunity: join a movement of leaders working towards more inclusive, healthy, and sustainable #FoodSystems in Kenya and Rwanda.

Apply by 10 May ⬇️ africanfoodfellowhip.org/leadership-pro…

Edson Dongo saw that the biggest problems his students' families faced—poverty and food scarcity—were directly linked to effects of climate change on their own environment. To address these challenges, Edson integrated climate education into the curriculum.

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Farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India, have shown that land managed for health, equity, and sustainability is better for people and protects our planet.

Learn more bit.ly/3SVn2dw Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming #agroecology

𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 || 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗼, 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗿, 𝗔𝗙𝗦𝗔 𝗕𝗢𝗔𝗥𝗗

Farmer and organizer for rural women, Mariama is the national coordinator of Nous sommes la solution (We are the solution) in Senegal, a rural women’s movement

Excellent fellowship opportunity for #FoodSystems leaders from IKEA Foundation and African Food Fellowship! ⬇️

Two key experts who contributed to a flagship UN report have said that FAO misused their research to underestimate the potential emissions savings of reducing meat consumption in diets.
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As a country on the frontlines of deforestation & land conversion, it's no coincidence that #Colombia 🇨🇴 is also at the forefront of the transition to regenerative #FoodSystems 🌱

Ahead of #COP16 , learn about the network of actors leading the shift 👇
folucolombia.org/redes-de-regen…

In an insightful interview, Eric Schlosser exposes the fragility of the US #FoodSystem , owned by a handful of businesses. He explores the impact of corporate consolidation in the food market on wages, public health and the land. n.pr/3W8nk2n

US banks are pouring billions into funding industrial livestock and it's seriously undermining their climate commitments.

Instead, we need to see a huge scale-up of investment in sustainable farming practices like #agroecology .
Research by Friends of the Earth (Action) bit.ly/3UtqooD

To survive and thrive, we've got to transition to better ways of growing food, which don't destroy our planet.

Great article by Dr. Jonathan Foley on the imperative of transforming #FoodSystems to fight catastrophic climate change. bit.ly/3U22fE1

Call for applications: APC is offering grants to human rights defenders who work on land and environmental issues.

Grants are designed to enhance human rights groups' safety and security. Apply by 29 April ⬇️

Despite what the food industry said at COP28, industrial animal agriculture exacerbates, rather than solves, global hunger by:
🐄 emitting greenhouse gases
🚰 polluting the air and water
🌱 wasting land for livestock feed

Anna Lappé quoted in DeSmog bit.ly/3TQ3F4n

This International Day of #PeasantStruggles we celebrate farmers around the world and recognize the peasants and Indigenous peoples creating true systems change. Agroecology Fund advisor Lim Li Ching shares about the essential need for protecting Indigenous peoples rights ⬇️

An award-winning documentary set in Cuba, a country that faces vast food shortages, shines a spotlight on farmers who see #agroecology as the path to realizing their long-held ambition of food sovereignty.

Watch the trailer 📽️ foodandfarmcommunications.org/awardees/2024-…
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Industrial agriculture is a big contributor to the climate crisis.

We need to turn our attention, and funding, to other ways to produce food like agroecology which shows a clear pathway to a resilient and healthy future of food.
bit.ly/3TQ3F4n

We need to wean our food systems off fossil fuels!

Check out this great video from ActionAid that shines a spotlight on #agroecology 's role in climate action and a resilient future of food.

Fantastic fellowship opportunity from The New Institute. Apply by 30 April 🔽 thenew.institute/en/fellows/fel…

Congratulations to Margarita Fernandez for winning the 2024 Impact Media Award for her documentary ‘Our Agroecology, Our Future,’ exploring the successes and challenges of the Cuban agri-food system through the voices of farmers.

Check out the trailer 📽️ bit.ly/4aRChKc