SEPTEMBER 2025

Dear Network Members,

The AgroFutures Team is back with the monthly newsletter! We hope you’ve had some time to rest and are feeling re-energised! 

As part of our discussions over the summer, we have decided to bring on board two more people to help us run the newsletter and expand the network’s coverage across broader geographical locations. This is an exciting opportunity for PhDs, early career academics, or members of agroecology movements around the world to contribute. There will be plenty of opportunities to discuss the future direction of the Network and to shape the newsletter into a more engaging and carefully edited piece of content. We will be in touch shortly with more details in an email.

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy reading this brief post-break newsletter.

Warmly,

The AgroFutures Team

MEDIA ARTICLES

As Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated, we share two news pieces on how the destruction of agricultural land, crops, and food sovereignty is being mobilised as a tool of war.

For those who have not already read it, we would like to draw your attention to the United Nations report From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The report denounces, in striking terms, the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project, naming the major corporate entities that have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide.

The section on agribusinesses is particularly relevant to people in this forum. It highlights how conglomerates such as Tnuva and Netafim (a global leader in drip irrigation technology) have enabled the exploitation of Palestinian land and water, driving widespread food and water insecurity. As the report states:

“In the Jordan Valley, Netafim-aided irrigation systems have facilitated Israeli crop expansion, while Palestinian farmers – denied water and with 93 per cent unirrigated land – are pushed out, unable to compete with Israeli production.”

The section concludes that “companies such as Tnuva and Netafim continue to manufacture food security for Israelis, while the food system to which they belong produces food insecurity – and even famine – for others. Netafim brands itself as a sustainable innovator, while in practice perfecting age-old techniques of colonial exploitation.”

Full report is accessible here 

ACADEMIC ARTICLES 

Panosetti, F., Labadi, T., & Heneiti, A. (2025). Agrarian questions in global Palestine: past, present and future. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2537878

(This article introduces a new forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled. See CfP below.)

Amarillo, C.R., Arias-Solano, L., Ojeda, D. and Botero, S.S., 2025. One glyphosate: Toxic dispossession and the agri-military regime in Colombia. Political Geography, 118, p.103288. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629825000204 

Pickering, C., 2024. Women in agroecology: inclusion, exclusion, and empowerment in Peru. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 48(8), pp.1187-1209. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21683565.2024.2356199 

EVENTS & TRAINING

The 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum will take place from September 6th to 13th in Sri Lanka. The Forum was first convened in Mali in 2007 and has established itself as a key event in the global food sovereignty movement. It brings together Indigenous people, peasant farmers, fishers, pastoralists, agricultural workers, artisans, feminists, wage workers, united by the shared vision to  build people’s economies and democracy, promote peace and international solidarity, advance food sovereignty and agroecology, and achieve climate justice and energy sovereignty. More information on this year's forum can be found here  


The biennial Gender in Food, Land and Water Systems Conference 2025

will be held from 7-9 October 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. The theme for the conference for this year is 'Accelerating equality in food, land, and water systems: Driving solutions through evidence and learning.'  Call for abstracts and early bird registration is open on the conference webpage here. Registration Deadline: Friday, 26 September 2025, 23:59 EDT 


CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Contributions: Youth and agroecology. Rooted Magazine is calling on young people to share their voices, experiences, and perspectives in its March 2026 issue,focused on youth and agroecology. 

Call for papers for a new Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled, recently launched by the Journal of Peasant Studies and guest-edited by Fadia Panosetti, Taher Labadi, and Ahmed Heneiti. The deadline for abstract submission is on 15. October 2025.