IFA Blog Welcome to the UVM Institute for Agroecology's blog. Enjoy! 12/14/2025 Food Forests Play Critical Role in Building Community and Advancing the Right to Food It’s the spring of 2023 and the Edgewater Food Forest in Mattapan, Mass. has been three years in... 12/11/2025 Agroforestry and Agroecology As the temperature in Burlington, Vt. plummets to near zero (don’t even ask me about the “feels... 12/09/2025 Better Together: Designing for Collaboration It was late afternoon on the second day of the three-day residential climate activists’ retreat.... 10/23/2025 McKnight Foundation Receives UVM Foundation Transformative Partnership Award For more than a decade, the McKnight Foundation has partnered with UVM researchers to co-create... 10/16/2025 Setting the Table for Just Transitions: Conducting Relational Agroecological Research The questions “who is at the table” and “who is missing a seat at the table” are often... 10/13/2025 “Rooted in Vision, Growing into Action - Advancing Regional Food System Transformation” ; A Regional Food Gathering at Knoll Farm On August 12 and 13, 2025, New England food system advocates, researchers, practitioners, and... 09/10/2025 Agroecology Can Build a More Resilient Future Alarming news items come at us every day, with reports of climate-driven catastrophes, extreme... 08/07/2025 “Resistance and Resilience: Cross-Pollinating Food Movements” - Reflections and Analysis Gathering in person to connect, co-learn, and strategize is essential to building agroecology.... 06/17/2025 West African Community of Practice of the CRFS Program 2025 Annual MeetingWe had an incredible meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from April 7 to 11!... 03/26/2025 Echoes in the Emerald: Step into the emerald embrace of Northeast India, a global biodiversity hotspot teeming with life....
