IFA Blog Welcome to the UVM Institute for Agroecology's blog. Enjoy! 06/04/2026 Four Agroecology Examples That Improve Food Systems and Protect the Planet Agroecology is an interdisciplinary agricultural movement that combines traditional knowledge and... 05/26/2026 UVM to Host Global Food Systems Conference on “Just Transformations” The University of Vermont will host the 2026 Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS)... 05/21/2026 What is Agroecology, and Why is it Important? What is Agroecology, and Why is it Important?What we eat - and how it’s produced - matters for... 05/18/2026 Institute for Agroecology Founding Faculty Co-Director Receives UVM University Scholar Award Twenty years ago Ernesto Méndez joined the University of Vermont, deepening the university's... 05/14/2026 Moving Beyond Growth - Ending Hunger Through Transformative Change As policy debates increasingly challenge the idea that growth alone can end poverty, a deeper... 05/11/2026 Looking Back to Move Forward - Why History Matters for the Future of Food Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, along with several other authors, recently published “Looking back to... 04/24/2026 Beyond the Easement - Equity, Markets, and Agrarian Identity in Farmland Conservation If you’ve ever been to Vermont, you’ll recognize the many hallmarks of a predominantly... 04/24/2026 Farmer-Led, Grassroots Innovation Makes Real Systems Change Possible It’s early August in Shrewsbury, Vermont. The fields of Evening Song Farm are abundant with... 03/23/2026 First-of-its-Kind Master's in Agroecology at UVM Benefits from Close Ties to UVM's Institute for Agroecology A new Master of Science in Agroecology has officially been launched at the University of Vermont... 01/30/2026 Building Bridges: Agroecology and Planetary Health Partnerships from the Andes to Vermont “Health cannot be separated from territory, culture, and ecology,” says Amaya... 01/20/2026 Agroecology Beyond Borders: Weaving Threads of Global Solidarity It’s 5:36 AM in early July and the morning dew clings to dark green kale leaves like tiny glass... 01/12/2026 Navigating Rome: UVM Institute for Agroecology Stepping Up in International Spaces This past fall, the UVM Institute for Agroecology was involved in a host of international... 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.... 03/18/2025 Looking Back to Look Forward The seedling grant offered by the Institute for Agroecology offered our team vital resources for... 03/13/2025 Three Food Justice Projects Launch in Partnership with UVM’s Institute for Agroecology A University of Vermont Institute for Agroecology Small Grant helped launch three innovative... 03/03/2025 Participatory Pre-Breeding of Culturally Significant Crops This is a featured blog post from the 2024 Agroecology Cohort, supported through seed grants from... 02/03/2025 ¡Brigada! The 2024 Short Course on People’s Agroecology in Vermont From October 3 to October 9, dozens of local farmers, farmworkers, organizers and activists... 02/21/2025 Global Collaborators Convene in Vermont to Work Together Towards Transforming Food Systems Through Agroecology September 26, 2023The University of Vermont’s newInstitute for Agroecology (IfA)held its flagship... 03/11/2024 Announcing a New Partnership to Support Just Transitions in Food Systems in the Northeast Kingdom March 11, 2024We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a Seed Grant from the Leahy... 11/18/2024 IFA Co-Director Colin Anderson Joins United Nations’ Committee On World Food Security’s High Level Panel of Experts The University of Vermont is thrilled to announce that Colin Anderson, Co-Director of the UVM... 08/07/2024 Weaving Just and Sustainable Food Futures: Regional Approaches and Strategies Among the bucolic hills of Knoll Farm in Waitsfield, Vermont, 45 researchers, organizers,... 07/29/2024 Bridging Political Ecology and Agroecology: Insights from the POLLEN Conference in Lund Members of IfA recently presented at a political ecology conference in Lund, Sweden, adding an... 06/03/2024 Announcing 2024 IfA Small Grants Cohort The University of Vermont’s Institute of Agroecology (IfA) is excited to announce the recipients... 05/09/2024 Article in Nature Food Published, Featuring University of Vermont’s Institute for Agroecology Co-Directors/Professors Burlington, VT – In an article published today in Nature Food, a team of international experts... 09/10/2024 Advancing Strategic Collective Communications in the Food System “A narrative reflects a shared interpretation of how the world works.” – Narrative... 08/16/2023 Seeding Transformation – A Global Forum on Food Systems & Agroecology on September 18, 2023 The new UVM Institute for Agroecology’s (IfA) flagship global event Seeding Transformation, will... 04/10/2023 Rekindling Connections and Strengthening Global Networks for Transformative Agroecology Courtyard in the Antonio Machado campus of the International University of Andalucía, in Baeza,... 01/30/2023 Accepting Applications for the 2023 Agroecology Extension Summer Research Fellows Program The Agroecology Extension (AX)Summer Research Fellowship is uniquely tailored for students looking... 01/17/2023 Update from the Field: Studying Soil Health with Smallholder Coffee Growers in Mexico & Guatemala We’ve added a new update about our work on soil health with coffee farmers to our project blog...
