Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us....

UPA is the professional organization that groups, represents and defends the interests of professionals in agriculture and livestock in Spain. UPA is the organization that brings together the majority of the agricultural sector: family farms whose owners are small and medium farmers and ranchers. UPA has more than 80,000 members...

IFOAM – Organics International has been the global organic umbrella organization since 1972. From the early days of the pioneers (i.e.‘Organic 1.0’) to the forming of the organic movement and the codification of standards and enforced rules that have established organic with a market value of over US$80 billion per...

The mission of CEEweb for Biodiversity is the conservation of biodiversity through the promotion of sustainable development. CEEweb works through advocacy, influencing decision making, common projects, capacity building, networking and awareness raising. It targets its members, local, national and international decision makers, NGOs and NGO networks, companies and the scientific...

An initiative that aims to inspire and encourage the next generation of sustainable farmers.

The Sustainable Food Trust is a registered charity that was founded by Patrick Holden in 2011 in response to the worsening human and environmental crises that are associated with the vast majority of today’s food and farming systems.

Eco Ruralis was founded in April of 2009 in Cluj-Napoca by small farmers from several regions of the country. It is a grassroots association made up of small farmers who practice organic and traditional farming based on environmentally-conscious principles.

The main objective of the Center is to help the indigenous people of the North and their communities to transition to the new market conditions of management in modern Russian reality through professional training, the creation of distance education programs, joint management and profits. Organization of the work of the...

CACAARI’s mission is to serve as a neutral forum, where various stakeholders of agricultural research for development in Central Asia and the Caucasus can discuss and debate on issues critical to the agriculture of the future

ACTUAR - is a non-profit-making Portuguese association, founded in 2007 with the objective of helping to promote development, especially in rural areas, while privileging the most marginalised groups such as small producers and women. Its main area of intervention is the Lusophone rural world, where it fights to protect and...

Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research - The Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR) was formally set up through a stakeholder meeting held in Rome in 2006. The Platform aims to support the development of knowledge needed to maintain and use agrobiodiversity optimally.

SOSFaim is a Belgian development NGO that has been actively fighting hunger and poverty in rural areas of Africa and Latin America since 1964.

SIANI is a member-based network that supports and promotes Swedish expertise on sustainable food security and nutrition, in line with the Swedish Government’s policy on global development. They offer an open and interactive platform for exchange on global issues around food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. SIANI also has...

Rural Development Research Platform (RDRP) is the first digital platform for research in the rural economy in Romania. This was done on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Romanian Academy and is intended as a support tool for academic and scientific development of rural economy....

Association of Private Farming is a voluntary and professional organization defending the economic, social and professional interest of private farmers in the Czech Republic and abroad. In terms of legal form and organisational structure, our organisation is an association of legal entities - regional associations of private farmers, which are...

SWG RRD as an International Intergovernmental Organization has been working in the region of South Eastern Europe in the past decade on agriculture and rural development matters applying a multi-level approach. They have been highly focusing on regional development via agriculture, nature resource management, economic growth and environmental protection in...

The aim of LIFE is to provide a clear and coherent voice at EU level for the previously mainly silent majority of European fishermen, who are smaller scale and who use low impact fishing gears and methods, but have historically lacked dedicated and effective representation in Brussels and at Member...

Cahiers Agricultures gives priority to research on agriculture as implemented by farmers, that has meaning for citizens in countries in the North and South, as opposed to research work conducted in a controlled environment (laboratory, research center, etc.). Research of this type is often multidisciplinary and takes into account the...

Bringing together citizens, small farmers, consumers, activists and concerned political actors at global level through an alternative economic approach called Local Solidarity-based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers.

Euromontana promotes the sustainable development of mountains with a view to improve living conditions of mountain people. This EU network represents a variety of stakeholders who comprise mountain communities and influence sustainable mountain development at different levels: regional and local authorities; chambers of commerce and industry or agriculture; professional and...