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Germinate is an exclusive guest column featuring the perspective, insights and innovations of leading agroecology and food systems experts and practitioners

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Agroecology as a Key Lever to Promote Multifunctional Agriculture in Tropical Asia
28/09/2026
The countryside of tropical Asia is at a turning point, as its emblematic farming landscapes are rapidly being transformed. Fueled by market forces, dietary change and altering public policies, agriculture has undergone extensive intensification, simplification and specialization.
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Whose Intelligence? Whose Farming?
25/08/2026
Whose Intelligence? Whose Farming? Innovation is not the same thing as digitalization: grassroots innovation, appropriate technology, and the knowledge infrastructure agroecology needs. A Germinate! guest column by Dorn Cox (Farm Hack US), with contributions from Caroline Ledant (Schola Campesina), members of the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA)
Opinion Piece August 2026 Agroecology & Digitalization
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Planet-friendly school meals are a win-win for the three Rio Conventions
20/07/2026
As the global transition to unhealthy diets continues, climate shocks intensify and conflicts disrupt supply chains and food prices, the world continues to reassess how food is produced, distributed, and consumed. Both public food procurement, including school meals, and agroecology are gaining ground as solutions and strategic pathways to more resilient, healthy, and equitable food systems.
Opinion Piece Germinate! 2026 Plant-friendly school meals
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Cultivating Power in Just Transformations: Building Momentum for Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in the United States
29/06/2026
At the University of Vermont Institute for Agroecology, our international colleagues often pose a provocative question: How do we build and support the practical, political, and intellectual work of advancing agroecology in the U.S., AKA the belly of the beast?
Opinion Piece Germinate! 2026 Just Transformation
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Bees, Biodiversity, and the Taste of a Living Planet
20/05/2026
World Bee Day and the International Day for Biological Diversity challenge us to move from extraction to reciprocity, from monocultures to mosaics, from anonymous commodities to foods rooted in place and responsibility.
Opinion Piece Germinate! 2026 Bees & Biodiversity
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O papel das políticas públicas na transformação da vida das mulheres rurais
20/03/2026
A partir das reinvindicações das mulheres rurais, organizadas em movimentos sociais e na Marcha das Margaridas, diversas políticas públicas foram retomadas e fortalecidas, incorporando bandeiras históricas. Nesse processo, as mulheres rurais assumem a condição de sujeitos políticos fundamentais na formulação e implementação dessas políticas.
Opinion Piece Germinate! 2026 Women Empowerment
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“The quiet power of pulses: why pulses matter more than ever”
20/02/2026
Plant-based diets are expanding, not as ideology but as pragmatism. Food industries are rediscovering pulses for their functionality, affordability, and clean-label appeal.
Opinion Piece February 2026 Pulses
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Towards Ambitious Transitions: Catalyzing Finance and Action for Regenerative and Agroecological Food Systems
20/01/2026
In a time of profound uncertainty, regenerative and agroecological transitions offer not a single solution, but a way of working within planetary boundaries and by centering smallholders, fishers and food producers and their livelihoods. 
Opinion Piece Germinate! 2026 Agroecology Finance

Read more from leading agroecology and food systems experts and practitioners in the previous issues of Germinate!

Germinate! Vol. 1 (2024)Germinate! Vol. 2 (2025)