An Online Learning Exchange Series of IPAM Field Learning Sites<\/b><\/p>\n
July, August, and October 2024<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Our vision and understanding of the future of food and farming\u2013in effect our hopes and aspirations for it\u2013are being persistently undermined and hijacked. A world where no one is poor and hungry, especially (it should go without saying) the people who grow our food, where everyone has equitable access to safe, healthy, sustainable food\u2014this collective vision is being deliberately conflated by agro-TNCs with productivism that they say can be met only by wide-scale automation and standardization, opaque global corporate value chains dependent on fossil fuels, and expensive state-of-the-art, resource-intensive products that only they have the financial wherewithal to provide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Theirs is a vision where the food system\u2019s ability to survive and thrive does not rest on the protection of rights and interdependence of people and ecosystems, but on the relentless pursuit of profit through proprietary digital innovations to maintain dominance and competitive advantage. The current climate breakdown and widening inequality show how unsustainable this pathway is.<\/span><\/p>\n We believe that the future of our food system is agroecology. As a science, praxis, and rights-based movement, agroecology is able to embody the change we wish to see in our food system: plural, equitable, healthy, safe\u2013where everyone is fed well while protecting our planet and communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In our vision of the future, people, rather than corporations, are the agents of transformation, and the change imagined and aspired towards is systemic rather than simplistic, distributive rather than accumulative, circular instead of destructive, and where the indigenous intersects with innovative rather than precludes it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the face of multiple crises and volatilities like the ongoing climate emergency, food insecurity, grinding poverty, deep inequality, and a rising global disease burden. It\u2019s a world where food is a basic human right rather than a strategic asset to financialize and profit off of in global financial markets. It\u2019s a food future that is biodiverse and resilient rather than one built on homogeneity and consolidation for control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The future of food that we want is taking place now, not in some distant space-age laboratory alienated from the communities it purports to be in the service of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Peasant farmers, civil society organizations, and people\u2019s movements are already prefiguring our new food system by advancing agroecology and food sovereignty. This food future is already latent in our present work: generative like the seed because it is on the ground and in the hands of the people. The future of food is one that has long been in the making, growing from indigenous pathways, and constantly strengthened by an expanding praxis of diverse communities maintaining and protecting socially just alternative food and farming systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The International People\u2019s Agroecology Movement (IPAM) is hosting an online learning exchange with its field learning sites from different parts of the world to highlight the multiple ways our agroecology farmers and people\u2019s organizations are currently embodying the future we want to see in our food system.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Open to the public, this three-episode online series aims to:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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