Agroecology

Farming that works with the environment rather than fighting against it

Humans around the world have been growing food in partnership with the earth for millennia. It is only in the last century that we opted to centralize our food systems, creating massive monoculture food growing operations that prioritize lining the pockets of billionaires over feeding people safe food.

The corporations who control our food systems want us to believe that we must rely on them to feed the world, but that is simply not true. The truth is that by choosing agroecological farming methods and upholding the social values of agroecology, we can not only feed the world, but we can also return power over the food system to the farmers and farmworkers in the fields.

Agroecology has been defined in many ways, but at its core it is a system of principles that form the bones of food systems that are sovereign, safe, and sustainable.

These are the principles of agroecology we advocate for:

All people have sovereign access to healthy, safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food.
Farmers and agricultural workers work with the land to protect, restore, and sustain natural resources and ecosystems.
Agriculture utilizes ecological management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improving adaptation and resilience to climate change.
Synthetic chemical inputs are reduced or eliminated whenever possible.
The production, sharing, commerce, and consumption of food is built on a solidarity economy which prioritizes thriving communities, resilient local markets, and worker rights.
Diverse cultures, identities, and knowledge systems are embraced along with equitable forms of social organization such as collectivity, mutual aid, and leadership by historically marginalized groups.
Governance structures and power relationships in the food system evolve in ways that shift power away from transnational corporations, and instead center the rights of food producers, workers, and rural and urban communities to define and re-establish just food systems.

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