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A close-up look at agroecology practice in Malawi reveals how farmer-led, ecologically grounded farming addresses food insecurity and climate vulnerability simultaneously — while raising hard questions about why international development institutions still overlook it.
The Tharaka community in Kenya adapts Amazonian mapping methods to create Life Plans — participatory governance tools that weave seed sovereignty, sacred site protection, and customary law into a holistic vision of territorial stewardship.
Two new coordinators will work across southern and western England to strengthen grassroots seed networks — governance infrastructure for food systems that roots sovereignty in regional practice and Indigenous knowledge.
Dr Debal Deb has spent 30 years conserving indigenous rice from remote Indian tribes — an act of ecological stewardship that doubles as governance practice, returning seed sovereignty to farmers after decades of corporate monoculture.
A whole-system planetary governance consultancy that helps governments and institutions redesign constitutions, policies, and decision-making frameworks to account for the rights of nature, future generations, and the living commons. Operates as a non-hierarchical co-stewardship collective. Applies permaculture, indigenous land stewardship, and digital commons perspectives.
A network of networks initiated in 2019, emerging from India's Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) to create solidarity and strategic alliances among radical transformation movements worldwide. Coordinated by Ashish Kothari and colleagues, it maps and connects alternatives to dominant development paradigms — from agroecology and commons governance to autonomous indigenous communities — across regions and themes.
A US nonprofit collective rooted in the wisdom of frontline communities, working toward the liberation and restoration of land, labour, and culture through ecological justice. Developed the Resilience-Based Organizing model and the Just Transition framework (co-created with Climate Justice Alliance). Holds the principle that "if we're not prepared to govern, we're not prepared to win."
A framework and network coordinated by Ashish Kothari (founding member of Kalpavriksh) advocating for governance rooted in ecological integrity, direct participation, equity, and the rights of nature. Argues that meaningful transformation requires links between grassroots alternatives and peoples' global assemblies, and challenges the assumption that a single universal governance framework can serve a pluriverse of peoples and ecologies.