MARCH 2025
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Below is a selection of articles and events that may be of interest to you. Thanks again to everyone who has participated so far. Please continue to share content on the platform and spread the word about the Network with your contacts and friends.
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ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Luna, A. G., Castilla, S. L. L., Nuñez, T. R., & Yankelevich, S. N. (2025). Food beyond the farm: significance of noncrop plants and mushrooms for food security of highland farming communities in Veracruz, Mexico. In Agroecology of Edible Weeds and Noncrop Plants (pp. 241-258). Academic Press. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780443160769000159
Ismai, A. (2025). Domesticating neoliberal foodscapes: An everyday approach to understanding food system transitions in Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Political Ecology, 32(1). https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/5843/
MEDIA ARTICLES
Return of the native seeds by Rohit J. (a photostory): https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/return-of-the-native-seeds/
A story on how Adivasi women are the force behind the comeback of heirloom seeds and organic farming in Alirajpur and Dewas districts of Madhya Pradesh. India.
Reviving forgotten wild edibles from paddy fields, Mongabay
https://india.mongabay.com/2025/02/reviving-forgotten-edibles-from-paddy-fields/
EVENTS & TRAINING
Inspired by the powerful trailer of the movie “One Seed at the Time” shared by MAKAAM on this platform, we thought that some of you may be interested in participating in the Filmmaking for fieldwork (F4F) Summer Schoolon ethnographic and documentary filmmaking. Placement bookings will begin in March.The course runs online each Monday between June 9 - July 7 2025. This year participants will also receive a free E-copy of Filmmaking for Fieldwork: a practical handbook published by Manchester University Press. Details on how to enroll can be found here https://filmmakingforfieldwork.co.uk/online-courses [filmmakingforfieldwork.co.uk]
Sharing this seven-day course on Food and Agriculture organised by Pagdandi in April in Uttarakhand, India (13-19 April, 2025). The course will explore the fundamental questions underpinning food and how it is grown today through hands-on practice, lectures and discussions. It will look at the logic of agricultural supply chains and what they achieve. It will examine the conditions of our farmers and the state of agriculture and go into its history, political economy and ecology. Last date to Apply: 15th March, 2025
Please see this link for more details: https://pagdandi.substack.com/p/food-and-agriculture
AGROECOLOGY AND ART
The Centre for Humans & Nature publishes creative work that explores and promotes human responsibilities in relation to the whole community of life. For their 2025 call for submission, they welcome writings and artwork on the theme of seeds, as both the offspring/wellspring of plants and also as metaphors for resilient reimagining and active adaptation. This year’s submission window will be open from June 24th through July 15th, 2025 at 11:59 pm CDT. When submissions are open, a link will appear here: https://humansandnature.org/submission-guidelines/
We also wanted to share the first episode of Agroecology as a Movement: Social and Political Education, produced by the LandWorkers Alliance. This is a well explained educational video exploring what it means to practice agroecology as part of a larger struggle towards achieving food security, social justice and environmental equity.
Visual design by himanshiparmar.com
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