Editorial: Youth leading the way in agroecology
Across continents, languages and landscapes, young people are not waiting to be invited to transform food systems, they are already doing it through agroecology. The fourth issue of Rooted Magazine…
Reclaiming roots: Youth leading the agroecology movement in Nepal
What started as concern about the future of farming is slowly turning into collective action. Young farmers in Nepal are building a nationwide network for change, rooted in the belief…
Agroecology Bootcamp: Ivorian youth cultivating farm resilience
In the heart of Ivory Coast, the land bears scars of soil depletion, changing climates, and a worrying trend where rural youth drift away from farming. It’s a reality that…
Returning to resist: The agroecological revival of rural Veneto
A group of young people returned to the depopulated rural north of Italy after spending years abroad. For them, this was a political act. Since 2024, they have been engaging…
The present that restores: Youth leading the resistance to migration in Honduras
It is within a context of ecological and social urgency that youth and women around Lake Yojoa in western Honduras have emerged as the driving forces of an ecological restoration…
Becoming the architects of our own food system in Zambia
With more than half Zambia’s population under the age of 25, young people are choosing a different path than their parents. They are organising learning groups and experimenting with agroecological…
Chronicles of an agroecological learning journey across France
Launched in 2019 by young people from the agricultural world, the Tour de France Agricole is much more than a study trip. By visiting farms for two weeks, students experience…
Short stories: Agroecology education rooted in life
Rooted Magazine presents seven vibrant stories proving agroecology is life taught everywhere; classrooms, kitchens, fields, streets and villages. Meet Australian high‑schoolers at a farm school who plant, harvest, nurture and…
Strong Roots: The garden reinventing the future of Indigenous youth in Ecuador
Seeking ways to put words into practice, young people started an educational garden at an intercultural agricultural school in the Ecuadorian Choco rainforest. Indigenous students are learning to work with…
Rooted in hope: A young farmer’s return to India’s soil, seeds and solidarity
In Vidarbha, India, where farming has long been shadowed by debt, loss and quiet fear, one young farmer chooses to stay—learning from failure, reclaiming indigenous cotton, and rebuilding dignity through…
How agroecology is halting youth migration in rural Colombia
The migration of young people to urban areas in Colombia, driven by limited jobs and education in a context of violence, represents not only a demographic shift but also a…
Poem: What the waters know
Youth walks where the earth remembers In the quiet, they bend to the soil, not planting, but listening. Water returns first as a whisper, a pulse beneath ruined stones They…
Regenerative learning, regenerative land: Suggestions for agroecology education in Taiwan
Drawing on her teaching experience in Taiwan and the United States, Liann Shannon argues that funding structures and partnership models often signal support without actually sustaining the continuity, collaboration or…
‘Seeing is believing, tasting is knowing’: Youth co-creating a cooperative supermarket in Madrid
LA OSA is a participatory cooperative supermarket in Madrid, seeking to transform the food system for its hundreds of members and producers and consolidating a space of food sovereignty. In…
Reproducing life in fragmented territories: Agroecology, care and community kitchens in the Peruvian Andes
Dialogues around the Pot (‘Diálogos a la Olla’) were initiated in 2023 in the peri-urban neighbourhood of Las Moras in the Peruvian Andes. These dialogues were a collaboration between the…
Young mothers in Uganda reclaiming food, dignity and power in backyard gardens
In Kamuli district located in eastern Uganda, adolescent mothers are using backyard gardens to grow food for their families. For many, these small plots of land have become spaces of…
Interview: Tending the roots of agroecology in Nova Scotia/Mi’kma’ki
On the lands where the Mi’kmaq people have been nurturing foodways for millennia, young farmers and farmworkers from the National Farmers Union (NFU-NS) in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia,…
Performing youth participation: What young people learn and lose in global food governance
As a UN Youth Representative, Ida Simonsen witnessed how in many cases, youth participation in global food governance only serves to reproduce policymaking mechanisms that legitimise oppression, co-optation and exclusion….
Maya youth building self-management from their territory
We grew up seeing agriculture, meliponiculture and beekeeping as family inheritances. However, throughout our education, we encountered a deep disconnection as youth were migrating. Faced with this reality, we felt…
Under the mango tree: Youth solidarity and the seeds of peasant agroecology in Kenya
In western Kenya, youth organising through Farm Labour Solidarity Building is reshaping how communities value agriculture, collective work and indigenous knowledge. Moving from homestead to homestead, young people exchange labour,…
A living pedagogy of resilience: Agroecology and rural youth in Cabo Verde
In Casa de Meio, a farming community on the island of Santo Antão in Cabo Verde, agroecology has emerged as a collective process to build resilience. In a territory marked…
Indigenous youth are rebuilding the future of Sri Lanka’s food system
Young people are taking on leadership roles in the Indigenous community in Rathugala, Sri Lanka. Against a backdrop of historical displacement, low incomes and high debts, young farmers are making…
Short stories: Learning and playing with agroecology in Brazil
Agroecology is best learned by doing, playing and belonging, as two experiences from Brazil demonstrate. In Juazeiro, Bahia, the Children’s Circle at the 2025 Brazilian Congress of Agroecology turned childcare…
Congolese youth at the heart of the agroecological revolution
In many rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture is both a promise and a challenge. Here, a new generation is emerging: young farmers who no longer see…
Youth leading the way to data sovereignty in agroecology
In a world where corporate giants dominate, digital innovation in agriculture is often promoted as the primary solution to the global food crisis. But in reality it is often associated…
Collage: What does agroecology mean to me?
This collage showcases the responses of undergraduate students at Ithaca College, US, to the question of what agroecology means to them, presented as keywords and with corresponding graphic representations. As…
