Stephen Sherwood Steve, a co-founder of EkoRural is an organic farmer and food activist based in Ecuador as well as a lecturer and research fellow with the Communication and Innovation Group at Wageningen University. This talk uses Ecuador´s food sovereignty movement as a way to inform the Wageningen community and their transition towards ¨greener¨living. Steve … Continue reading EkoRural Co-founder Steve Sherwood Featured on TedX
Access to Local Markets
Food Sovereignty Fair in Salcedo
Every Thursday producers and consumers have an opportunity for exchange in the Federación de Comunidades campesinas de Salcedo (FECOS), of Federation of Community Farmers of Salcedo. This is an opportunity for small producers to showcase their agroecologically produced goods and for consumers to purchase fresh and healthy food directly from local producers. Hear EkoRural´s Rubén Villamarín speak (Spanish) with … Continue reading Food Sovereignty Fair in Salcedo
Canastas Comunitarias, an Ecuadorian Alternative to Industrial Food Systems
Ecuadorian family with bountiful harvest In the Andes, there have been fundamental changes in production patterns as a result of the different processes of land reform in the region and “agricultural modernization”. Today, the environmental context and local culture are no longer the main determinants of production systems, but rather the habits of unknown consumers … Continue reading Canastas Comunitarias, an Ecuadorian Alternative to Industrial Food Systems
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