Land & Food Policies
To achieve sustainable systemic changes in our food system we need strong policies that support agroecological methods, that protect land from unsustainable use and ensure tenure rights for peasant farmers around the world. Food policies are a tool that helps to ensure that all people have access to safe, affordable, and healthy food. These policies can have a local, national, territorial or even international scope. In our courses we explore these areas of policy making and aim to build skills around engaging in advocacy activities at different levels.
Land & Food Policy focus topics
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Supporting Advanced Learning for Stakeholders Involved in Sustainable Food systems Initiatives – SALSIFI
SALSIFI aims to develop and implement an innovative transnational education programme reinforcing the capacity of CSA networks and civil servants at local, regional, national and EU levels to engage in collaborative public food policy-making processes.
Responding to Hunger Training Programme
This project sought to utilize innovative methodologies and to build capacity of European organizations working on issues related to hunger, food systems, and social diversity to address hunger, and promote human rights and social inclusion in their analysis, work, and advocacy. Three priorities were established:
1) Expand and strengthen the capacities of civil society organization to engage with institutional, legal, and policy frameworks at different levels.
2) Create innovative tools and methodologies to support building capacity of organizations and other actors working in the fields of food systems and hunger on strategies, which increase social inclusion and align with the right to food and nutrition.
3) Understand, and provide recommendations on how to better address issues of social diversity and hunger, using a right to food and nutrition methodology that will engage with these social and community differences, such as race, immigration status, gender, disability, and their intersectionalities.
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Resistance is fertile!
This course introduces learners to the basics of land advocacy. It will provide the knowledge and skills needed to identify and articulate a land struggle, research relevant histories and collect data required to take a credible position on a land issue, map out and develop a broad network of allies, partners, and stakeholders, cultivate a cohesive, core advocacy team, write compelling, inspiring messaging, and create a realistic and forward-looking roadmap for advocacy action!