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Youth messages for tomorrow: what rural youth want the world to remember
For International Youth Day, we asked young people from smallholder farming communities across Latin America, South Asia and West Africa to reflect on one question: what did your elders teach you that you want future generations to know and keep alive?
Strengthening Agroecology in Nepal: A New Partnership Between Groundswell International and Tribhuvan University
Groundswell International is proud to announce a new partnership with Tribhuvan University in Kathma…
Agroecology in Latin America & the Caribbean: Learnings from the 2025 Regional Conference
This blog was originally written in Spanish. Read it here. From March 24 to 28, 2025, Groundswell In…
Fortaleciendo agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe: Lo que nos dejó la Conferencia Regional de 2025
Entre el 24 y el 28 de marzo de 2025, organizaciones socias de Groundswell International en América …
Partner Impact: Sahel Eco Empowering Farmers and Driving Agroecology in Mali
In 2024, our partner Sahel Eco helped drive a farmer-led transition to agroecology in Mali across th…
Agroecology Building Community Resilience Amid Climate Crisis in Latin America & the Caribbean
In 2024, communities across Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Mexico endured a convergence of…
Saving Andean Potatoes: How Farmers Are Fighting Crop Disease like Punta Morada with Agroecology
By Rebecca Wolff On our recent field visit to the provinces of Cotopaxi and Chimborazo, with our par…
Returning to our Grandmothers’ Kitchens: Eating with an Agroecological Mindset
The smell always got there first. Upstairs, while I played with my cousins, the scent of my French g…
De parcelas olvidadas a economía colectiva, el modelo de una comunidad de mujeres rurales en Honduras
En la comunidad de Isletas, Concepción de María, Langue, Honduras, Rafaela Godines identificó la nec…
Imagining an Agroecological Future: Pathways & Blockers
Vast fields of uniform crops have long defined our agricultural landscapes—a familiar promise of end…
From Forgotten Plots to Collective Economy: A Rural Women’s Community Model in Honduras
This article was originally published in Spanish. Read it here. In Isletas, Concepción de María, Hon…
Comunidades de Guatemala y Honduras fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria con reservas estratégicas de granos y bancos de semillas
Durante una semana, representantes de comunidades de Guatemala y Honduras se congregaron en las ofic…
Communities Strengthening Food Sovereignty in Central America with Seed Banks and Strategic Grain Reserves
This article was originally published in Spanish. Read it here. For a week, representatives from com…
Expanding Agroecology in West Africa: Welcoming CEAL and Urbanet as New Partners in Ghana
We are thrilled to announce two new partnerships in Ghana that will strengthen our collective networ…
Displaced Women Farmers in Burkina Faso: Symbols of Courage Amid Rising Violence
Sixty-four-year-old Tindano Pobarou, a mother of nine (five daughters and four sons), lived a peacef…
This Women’s Group in Nepal is Restoring Soil Health with Biofertilizers
In a small farming village tucked in Nepal’s hilly countryside, women in pink and red saris crouch i…
How Penda Turned a Dumping Ground into an Agroecological Urban Farm in Senegal
Penda's agroecological urban farm thrives amid the concrete sprawl of Thiès. Here, she cultivates fr…
How One Woman Farmer from Nepal Turned a Small Loan into a Lifeline
In rural Nepal, small opportunities can be life-changing for women farmers. After joining a women’s …
Pathways of Hope in the Dry Corridor: Communities Speak on Resilience & Agroecology at the Central American Donors Forum 2024
The Central American Dry Corridor, one of the world's most vulnerable regions to climate change, fac…
Ecuadorian Youth Draw a Future Free of Chemicals and Rooted in Nature
This year, youth storytellers from our local partner EkoRural in Ecuador stepped forward with though…
Young Leaders Shaping the Future of Food Systems Through Film: Looking Back on the 2024 Field to Film Festival
Each year, the Field to Film Festival marks a milestone for our Youth Storyteller Program, a unique …
Senderos de esperanza en el Corredor Seco: agroecología y resiliencia desde las voces de las comunidades en el CADF 2024
El Corredor Seco Centroamericano, una de las regiones más vulnerables al cambio climático en el mund…