Editorial: Weaving resilience and resistance for systemic transformation
This edition of Rooted Magazine is published in conjunction with the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, a landmark convergence of grassroots movements and organisations from around the world, happening in September…
Reclaiming land, restoring power: A grassroots path to a social and solidarity economy in Palestine
In the shadow of prolonged colonisation, fragmentation, systemic marginalisation, and ethnic cleansing, Palestinian communities continue to resist erasure through the daily act of rebuilding life from the ground up. The…
“In Sri Lanka, seed diversity is resilience”: An interview with Anuka DeSilva and Hemantha Withanage
Early September 2025, grassroots movements are gathering in Sri Lanka to build ‘a world beyond capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, racism, and fascism’. Two of the main organisers of the 3rd Nyéléni…
Reimagining resilience: Building just and equitable food systems
The dominant approach to resilience tends to focus on restoring supply chains or bouncing back to pre-crisis conditions. This framing assumes the current system is worth preserving. But if the…
Survival as strength: Maasai organise collectively for resilience and justice
In Kajiado West, a semi-arid region of Kenya where erratic rains, drought, and decades of marginalisation intersect, Maasai pastoralist communities are charting their own path to resilience. Their response is…
Growing climate resilience: Dene-led agroecology in Denendeh
Indigenous communities in Denendeh (Northwest Territories, Canada) are working towards community-led visions of growing food that reframe agriculture from a colonial activity to a practice rooted in cultural revitalisation, collectivism,…
If we heal the territory, we heal everyone: Returning to sacred spaces
To ensure the continuity of all that exists, Indigenous spiritual authorities (mamus) and their families care for, spiritually cleanse, and defend sacred sites. By healing sacred sites, they heal the…
The invisible oasis in Mali: Where agroecology meets peaceful resistance
We are in northern Mali, on the dry bed of Lake Kamango. An agroecological oasis stretches over three hectares reclaimed from the desert: invisible to the world, but very much…
Care at the centre for transformative resilience
This article highlights the often-overlooked emotional and communal care work that sustains the movement for agroecology, carried out especially by women. Drawing from regional experience in Latin America and the…
Those who wield the net must have the right to water
In India, a movement of small-scale fishworkers is building to reclaim their rights to water. A recent boat campaign in West Bengal aimed to raise awareness about the rights of…
Participatory Guarantee Systems in action: Building resilient food networks in Mexico
In the central region of Veracruz in Mexico, a diverse network of producers, consumers, and grassroots organisations has come together to build a locally rooted Participatory Guarantee System (PGS). More…
Peasant movements in Pakistan resist the green grab with resilience
From Arifwala to Cholistan, Okara to the banks of the Indus, Pakistan’s peasant struggle is a fight for life itself. In a dynamic, multi-front movement, it pits two visions of…
Sowing autonomy in contradictory times in Yucatán, Mexico
In Yucatán, Mexico, a grassroots agroecology school blends ancestral knowledge and critical education to reclaim land, culture, and dignity. It shows how, amid systemic pressures, Indigenous and local autonomy can…
Collective resilience in Black women-led community gardens in Brazil
Since the late 1980s, the municipality of Teresina, located in the state of Piaui in Brazil’s semi-arid Northeast, has supported urban and peri-urban farming through its Municipal Community Gardens Programme….
Organisational resilience as movement practice: Lessons from the German CSA Network
In May 2025, practitioners from Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiatives traded muddy boots and office work to reflect on the ideals and structures as well as social and economic stability of…
Resisting global markets through solidarity coffee economies
In the face of global trade injustices and corporate control, a cross-border network has emerged to sustain agroecological coffee production through solidarity-based economies. Rooted in long-term relationships and mutual care,…
Restoring cultural memory
My name is Method Gundidza. I was born in a small farming village in Bikita, near the old Great Zimbabwe city ruins. When I reflect on the journey I have…
Weaving intergenerational resilience
This illustration (mixed-medium on paper) depicts three generations of women farmers, collectively holding a vine, symbolising the transfer of knowledge and resources from one generation to another. A small sapling,…
