Dear Friends, Groundswell will celebrate 15 years in 2024. We feel both humbled and proud as we reflect on what we have been able to accomplish together so far, and are determined to have an even greater impact in the future. Since our founding, we have learned a lot about how to coordinate an effective international network for collective impact, one that reflects our shared values and centers the agency of smallholder and indigenous farming communities. We are pleased to share some 2023 … [Read more...] about Celebrating 15 Years of Impact: A Letter From Steve Brescia, Executive Director
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Global Partnerships in Action
Groundswell International advocates for action-oriented learning in collaboration with carefully chosen global partner organizations and allies. Through their work, we foster mutual learning, enhance methodologies and capabilities, make essential investments to foster continuous innovation, and promote agroecology globally. Our approach to strengthening the capacity of people, communities, and farmers’ organizations to create healthy farming and food systems from the ground up would not be … [Read more...] about Global Partnerships in Action
What Fertile Ground Teaches Us About Scaling Agroecology
It is increasingly clear that the rules by which we have organized our broader economic and political systems, with our agricultural and food systems at their center, are generating overlapping economic, environmental, social, and political crises. Our general ‘operating system’ is broken and has led us to what many are now referring to as a 'poly-crisis.' Industrialized agricultural and food systems are major drivers of climate change, environmental destruction, the dangerous … [Read more...] about What Fertile Ground Teaches Us About Scaling Agroecology
Year in Review: Progress and Action in 2023
2023 marked a significant year for Groundswell International, our partner organizations, and the communities in our programs. It brought a series of ongoing triumphs and remarkable displays of resilience within the communities we support. Furthermore, this year witnessed our message about the pivotal role of agroecology in cultivating robust agricultural and food systems starting at the grassroots level, reaching more people than ever before. Help us continue our vital work today, for a better … [Read more...] about Year in Review: Progress and Action in 2023
Fertile Ground 2023: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up – Reissued publication with Practical Action
We take great pride in announcing the re-release of our book, "Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up," edited by Groundswell's Co-Founder and Executive Director Steve Brescia, as an open-source edition published with Practical Action Publishing, launching November 15, 2023. Since the initial publication of this book in 2017, global events have only served to reaffirm our original motivation for documenting and sharing these invaluable agroecological case studies, along with the … [Read more...] about Fertile Ground 2023: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up – Reissued publication with Practical Action
Gathering Voices from the Field: 2022 Global Conference
In September of 2022, we held our annual global conference in India, generously hosted by the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Program (APCNF). While there, we were able to learn from one of the largest agroecology programs in the world, as well as from women’s groups, farmers, and rural communities. Together with our staff, board of directors, allies, and partners, we spent the week shaping our Strategic Framework for the next five years. Gathering Voices from the … [Read more...] about Gathering Voices from the Field: 2022 Global Conference