Category Archives: Sustainable Local Food Systems

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    Seed Terms Defined

    Written on Apr 11, 2013 5:28 pm, by

    This blog post was written by Anna Greene, one of our amazing volunteers. The post covers the basics of some of the seed and agriculture terms being used in this year’s Spring Seed Campaign. Starting from the broader terms that...
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    Advocating for Consumer Rights and GMO Labeling

    Written on Mar 15, 2013 7:21 pm, by

    World Consumers Rights Day 2013   Groundswell International believes in a consumer’s right to know what is in the food they are eating. Despite the fact that 82% of American consumers believe that GMOs should be labeled, there are still...
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    Sowing True Seed in Asheville, NC

    Written on Feb 19, 2013 3:40 pm, by

    At Groundswell International, we love working with passionate individuals and organizations who share our vision for a healthy, resilient global community. Sow True Seed, a company specializing in open-pollinated, non-hybrid, and untreated seed, certainly shares this vision. They grow and source over...
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    Farm to Table Meal in Southern Honduras

    Written on Feb 6, 2013 1:22 pm, by

    From maicillo to tortillas… Chris Sacco, Operations Director for Groundswell, is currently in Moropocay, Honduras visiting some of the communities and farms that work with our partner organization, Vecinos Honduras. Chris and Edwin Escoto, director of Vecinos Honduras, were able to...
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    Haiti’s rural communities lead the way toward national renewal

    Written on Jan 11, 2013 4:19 pm, by

    Three years have passed since the January 12, 2010 earthquake, and Haiti still waits for the implementation of a comprehensive earthquake reconstruction plan. Many thousands of families still live under tents or in makeshift homes without any basic services and...
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    Strengthening food security in Ecuador

    Written on Dec 27, 2012 1:09 pm, by

    Since 2009, Groundswell International has partnered with EkoRural to strengthen food security in marginalized rural communities in Ecuador. The communities that EkoRural and Groundswell work with are located in the Andean highlands. Many of the communities are indigenous with high...
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    Elena Tenelema

    Written on Nov 15, 2012 9:20 am, by

    “I dreamed of being a leader in my community since I was 16 years old,” said Elena Tenelema. She lives in the tiny village of Tzimbuto located in the central Ecuadorian highlands about 10 miles from the city of Riobamba....
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    Scaling agroecology to improve food security in Burkina Faso and Ghana

    Written on Nov 2, 2012 11:24 am, by

    The semi-arid Sahelian zone of West Africa is one of the poorest regions in the world. The majority of people there lives in rural areas and survives as small-scale farmers in an extremely harsh climate. In recent years the region’s...
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    Biotech industry receives US Government support in bid to undermine Ecuador’s constitutional prohibition of GMOs

    Written on Oct 16, 2012 12:47 pm, by

    Multinational biotech firms are actively working to undermine our food sovereignty – our right to grow and eat the food we want. These companies would have us believe that their genetically modified seeds are part of the solution to global...
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    Battle over GMOs intensifying in US and abroad

    Written on Sep 26, 2012 4:36 pm, by

    The battle over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is intensifying in the US and abroad. Proposition 37 in California, which would require foods containing GMOs to be labeled, has stirred up intense debate across the country. Collectively biotech companies, industrial agriculture,...