Join us to hear Brazilian and British funders and grantees have an inspiring and transparent conversation about what is needed to enable innovative solutions to be experimented with and practised. Trust-based philanthropy has been shown to be an effective strategy to support those on the ground to make effective decisions about how to invest their capital, address their real needs, and build relationships of reciprocity that go way beyond the capital itself.

Food sovereignty for all people cannot be achieved unless structural inequalities in food systems are identified and redressed. In the current society in which discrimination, oppression and corporate power are normalised and where right-wing agendas are advancing, bodies and identities differing the normative order are targeted. Women farmers have long struggled for their rights to be integrated into policies and legal instruments designed to guarantee their rights to food, land, work and social security.

Palestinian farmer, Doha Asous, will speak about the challenges of farming under occupation. She will explain why, in the face of aggression and land grabs by illegal settlers, it’s even more important to tend her land and devote her time to a farming livelihood. Doha farms using the traditional techniques of her ancestors. For over a decade, she has hosted international volunteers who come to support her and other farmers to bring their olive harvest…

Other species are an essential workforce in the ongoing regulation of the Earth's global climate and regional weather systems. Plants, microbes, fungi, insects, and animals all have a role to play in local and global temperature regulation, cloud formation, rainfall, wind patterns, and the prevention of flooding, drought, and wildfires. Humans have overlooked this workforce in our historical land management, which has intensified climate change and its local effects. It's time to recognize that we…

This session is a journey of stories told by four farmers about what land means to them and how they are fighting to defend their right to it.  They will show why land is common, not a commodity, and people, not corporations, must be able to enjoy it. 

Farms don’t just grow food, they grow opportunity. Research shows that communities surrounded by small farms benefit economically, as small farms circulate income among local establishments and generate jobs. The Hutson-Kadara family is using the power of farming to create opportunities for their town. Allensworth - located in California’s Central Valley - is a small, rural town whose promising trajectory as a Black agricultural haven was dashed by racism in the early 1900s. Today, the…

During this session we will dive into the littoral zone to cover algae 101. We will learn about wild algae forests, the evolutionary history of micro-algae, about the algae blooms caused by nitrogen/phosphorus loading of waterways, about algae as a fertiliser, algae carbon speculation and algae-industrialization for biofuels. We will share information on the global supply chains and seaweed workers, and the concerns about how these production methods will fare in a changing climate.  We…

Agriculture is one of the most dangerous occupations in the country, but workers in the US dairy, poultry, and livestock industries lack the basic protections that workers in most every other industry take for granted. A legal exemption prevents the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from monitoring and investigating farms with 10 or fewer workers, which means the vast majority of animal agriculture workers have no protection from dangerous conditions and no recourse…

Join us for the closing plenary of the online conference with speakers from around the world.