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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

Germinate! Vol 2

 

April 2026
FOOD SYSTEMS DIPLOMACY: THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY LEGISLATIVE JOURNEY TOWARDS LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING
20/04/2026
Diplomacy is a prerequisite for any regional integration to achieve its goals. Food systems diplomacy is shaping the global agenda on food security and nutrition. This is because the current food systems are no longer sustainable, thereby leaving the world to search for alternative and ...
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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.
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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.
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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. 
Germinate Agroecology Finance
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Agroecology at Altitude​:​​ ​ How Himalayan Communities Are Reimagining Food Systems From the Ground Up
20/12/2025
The Himalayan region is often introduced through its dramatic landscapes, fragile ecosystems, and socio-cultural richness, but its deeper story is one of livelihoods, governance.
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What Outcome Evaluation Reveals About Agroecology Interventions Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions in Southeast Asia (ASSET)
20/11/2025
By focusing on outcomes, i.e. changes in practices, behaviors, and interactions emerging from project activities, this evaluation approach provides valuable insights into enabling conditions for transformative change, informing policy frameworks at local, national, and regional levels.
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Na Mesa da COP30: Putting Food Where Climate Action Happens
20/10/2025
For the first time in the history of the UN Climate Conferences, the food offered to delegates, negotiators, civil society, and workers will itself be part of the climate solution.
Opinion Piece COP30
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PERSPECTIVES "Reimagining resilience: Building just and equitable food systems"
20/09/2025
Discussions on ‘building resilient food systems’ require new thinking. We need to consider how to ensure people, communities, and ecosystems are more resilient in the face of multiple...
Opinion Piece September 2025 Resilient Food Systems
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AEMED 2025: ad Agrigento nasce la comunità mediterranea per l’agroecologia
20/07/2025
Si è svolta ad Agrigento dal 17 al 20 giugno 2025 la prima edizione del Congresso di Agroecologia del Mediterraneo (AEMED 2025), un evento che ha riunito oltre 450 partecipanti...
Opinion Piece July 2025 Mediterranean Agroecology
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Farmer research networks as an approach to inclusive knowledge co-creation
20/06/2025
Knowledge co-creation is a central principle in agroecology and agroecological transitions. Researchers and practitioners engaging in actions to support and enhance biodiversity, maximise use of local resources, improve livelihoods, strengthen...
Opinion Piece June 2025 Farmers Research Network
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What the bees are telling us
20/05/2025
Alongside butterflies, bats, beetles, some mammals and birds, bees are the tireless workers that sustain the crops and wild plants that feed us, protect biodiversity, and keep our agrifood systems...
Opinion Piece May 2025 Biodiversity and Pollinators
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AFRICA'S FOOD SYSTEMS ARE BEING DIGITALISED WITHOUT US, IT'S TIME TO PUSH BACK
20/04/2025
Digitalization is not the same as democratization. The ability to collect data is not synonymous with empowering farmers. High-tech solutions cannot replace political will, farmer sovereignty, or .....
Opinion Piece April 2025 Agroecology for Africa
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Farmer-led agroecology and women empowerment: A Participatory Action Research by MASIPAG
20/03/2025
There is growing global recognition of the critical roles and contributions of women farmers agroecology.  Women farmers are at the forefront...
Opinion Piece March 2025 Women and Agroecology
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Las legumbres ancestrales de los Andes: Tesoros nutricionales y culturales
20/02/2025
Perú, un país que ha albergado antiguas civilizaciones como los Incas y los Moches y una de las cadenas montañosas más importantes del mundo, los Andes, ha sido desde tiempos...
Opinion Piece February 2025 tesoros culturales ancestrales
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Is Agroecology (at scale) the Future of our Agrifood Systems? The best way to predict the future is to invent it
20/01/2025
What could an agroecological future look like, if agroecology went to scale? What would be the implications - on economic growth, and social inequalities? Or on employment? And what would landscapes...
Opinion Piece January 2025 Agroecology at scale

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