A selection of recent reports, toolkits, manifestos, methodological frameworks, websites, films and webinars focused on policy for agroecology from partners around the world.
The Farming Chefs
Chefs-turned-farmers based in Portugal share their experiences on the land and in the kitchen growing, cooking and preserving nutrient-dense food in their newsletter and on their Youtube channel. They pay special attention to how the soil-gut connection plays a crucial role in our immune systems, our energy levels, and our moods.
Webinar recording: Agroecology, Food Systems and Nutrition
Agroecology Coalition, 2025
Recording of a side event during the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris in March 2025 where speakers explored nutrition-sensitive actions focusing on both production and demand-side interventions. Key topics include how consumer education, policy, pricing and market-based solutions can improve access to agroecological foods, and the supporting and empowering of vulnerable groups, particularly women.
The CityFood Market Handbook for Healthy and Resilient Cities
CityFood Programme, ICLEI, 2025
With 16 case studies from cities across the world, this handbook offers concrete examples of how food markets can play a critical role in building healthier, more equitable, and climate-resilient urban food systems when they are reimagined as inclusive, sustainable, and people-centered spaces. At the core of the handbook is the CityFood Market Action Framework, which provides a structured approach to transforming urban food markets through four strategic pillars: policy and governance; market infrastructure; funding and incentives; and capacity building and awareness.
Podcast episode: An invitation into collective, generational healing with Serene Thin Elk
Green Dreamer podcast hosted by Kaméa Chayne, 2025
If truly holistic medicine is tied to culture, to community, place, and the land, what does it mean to nurture collective healing and rebuild community in a vastly diasporic world? In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa is joined by Serene Thin Elk, who gently guides the listener to unravel ‘trauma’ in historic, individual, community and environmental contexts and invites us towards collective, intergenerational healing.
Webinar recording: Agroecology, Nutrition and Health
Agroecology Coalition, 2025
For its Webinar Series, the Agroecology Coalition hosted a conversation in January 2025 on the role of agroecology in ensuring healthy diets. The webinar also explored the available evidence on this topic. Speakers included Raiza Rezende of the Regenerative Healthcare European Association (RHEA), Patrizia Fracassi from the FAO’s Food and Nutrition Division, Rachel Bezner Kerr from Cornell University, and Dominique Barjolle from ETH Zurich/University of Lausanne.
Thematic Assessment of the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health
IPBES, 2024
The IPBES Nexus Assessment underscores the urgent need to address the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change, water security and food systems. Recognising the intricate relationships between these issues, the assessment provides a comprehensive framework for implementing integrated policies and actions that foster environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. The report highlights that solutions in one area can yield co-benefits in others. It calls for cross-sectoral collaboration and inclusive governance to ensure policies are both effective and equitable.
Food Plant Solutions database of nutritious plants
Rotary Club, Food Plant Solutions Action Group, 2024
Food Plant Solutions is a project to compile and distribute a global database of edible plants. To date, it contains more than 34,000 plants in over 50 countries. These resources explain how to grow and use the plants, the key nutrients they contain, and how the human body uses them, enabling caregivers to make informed choices about what to grow and eat to nourish their families. By extracting information from the database, tailored educational materials can be developed by and for communities.
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being
Yuria Celidwen, 2024
A poetic book from Indigenous scholar Yuria Celidwen about the Indigenous perspective of relationality – “the understanding that happiness is only possible in community, when we cultivate our relationships toward all kin, from human to more-than-human, and to our living earth." This guide gathers wisdom, traditions, and practices that bridge Indigenous and Western sciences, knowledges, and ways to address our collective aspiration for health, wellness, justice, and equity.
Open letter from the health sector to the EU on food and farming policy
A coalition of European health organisations, 2024
European health organisations representing millions of patients, doctors and nutritionists have written an open letter to several newly elected EU Commissioners asking them to prioritise preventative policies and promote healthy and sustainable diets in the region’s food and farming vision. The groups – which include the European Public Health Alliance, Caring Doctors, and Federazione Nutrizionisti Professionisti, among others – bemoaned the “lack of health representation” in recent agrifood policy discourse. The letter argues that previous food-related policy efforts have unfairly and ineffectively placed the responsibility on the consumer to choose healthier food, while “very large corporations” shape the food system but are “insufficiently regulated”.
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
Julian Baggini, 2024
An exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world, and how this shapes our lives. From hunter-gatherers in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyles are under threat to Western societies where food is intensively farmed and bred, philosopher Julian Baggini describes the world’s best and worst food practises and makes a proposal for a global philosophy of food.
Agroecology for Health: Examining the Impact of Participatory Agroecology on Health in Smallholder Farming Communities
Moses Kansanga et al., 2023
This study uses longitudinal data to examine the impact of participatory agroecology on self-rated health among Malawi farmers. Authors compared the health outcomes of farmers in agroecology-practicing households (n = 514) and a control group of farmers from non-agroecology households (n = 400). Overall, their findings demonstrate a positive link between agroecology and health and the potential for policymakers to draw upon agroecology to improve community health and wellbeing.
Farmers’ Well-being and Psychological Resilience
Conscious Food Systems Alliance, 2023
The Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), in partnership with COP2Care of People x Planet, convened a Collective Inquiry on Farmers’ Wellbeing and Psychological Resilience in July 2023. This journey unfolded through a series of online events, the outcomes of which are summarized in blog articles. These exchanges have provided an opening for CoFSA towards further explorations on the ‘inner dimension’ of agroecology and the inner transitions involved in the shift to more regenerative farming practices.
The Sankofa Report: British Colonialism and the UK food system
Food Matters (UK), 2023
This report uses the concept of Sankofa (looking back while moving forward) to detail how colonialism and structures of oppression have contributed to profound disparities in the contemporary food system. These include unequal land distribution and unequal access to healthy and affordable food, which result in diet-related health inequalities and the violation of workers' rights. The report emphasises how it is impossible to address these challenges within the broader food movement without acknowledging that the legacies of colonialism still manifest in today's food system.
Can agroecology improve food security and nutrition? A review
Rachel Bezner Kerr et al., 2021
This academic review paper examines recent evidence (1998–2019) for whether agroecological practices can improve human food security and nutrition. A majority of studies (78%) found evidence of positive outcomes in the use of agroecological practices on the food security and nutrition of households in low and middle-income countries. More complex agroecological systems that included multiple components (e.g., crop diversification, mixed crop-livestock systems and farmer-to-farmer networks) were more likely to have positive food security and nutrition outcomes.
This article is part of Issue 2-2025: Cultivating health and healing
