Agroecology Stories

400 Women, 1000 Gardens: How Agroecology Is Transforming Rural Bangladesh

“As a community leader, I always try to share what I have learned with other women and encourage them to adopt agroecological practices to protect their families’ health and reduce dependence on harmful chemicals.” Yeasmin Akter is a farmer from Olipur, in Daudkandi, a rural district in the Cumilla region of Bangladesh, where a women-led […]
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When Communities Lead, Change Lasts

For nearly eight years, BARCIK has worked alongside communities in Singair and Manikganj, fostering trust, dialogue, and locally led development. Rather than positioning itself as the driver of change, the organization has consistently encouraged communities to recognize their own action and leadership. At the center of this approach is the belief that sustainable women’s empowerment […]
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Agroecological practices bring new life to Coastal Family

At 31, Tapos Kumar Mondal has already spent more than two decades in farming. A resident of Burigoalini Union’s Abad Chandipur village, he lives with his nine-member family and has transformed their small homestead into an integrated farm producing vegetables, livestock, fish, and vermicompost. Tapos grew up helping his father irrigate fields and plant seedlings. […]
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Innovations of Dispossession

by Mabi David, PANAP Agroecology in Action The need for social transformation to address the multiple crises in our food system has been weaponized against the people by using a very narrow and harmful framing of the kind of innovation that is needed to meet the scale of the challenges.  A monoculture of meaning was […]
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Engaging Consumers in Agroecology: Lessons from Field Learning Sites

by Mabi David, PANAP Agroecology in Action Consumers are traditionally conceived as being  at the end of a linear value chain that is the backbone of the industrial agri-food system. There their proverbial power lies. They engage with the food system using their wallets,  but  are  otherwise unable to participate in issues outside what’s considered […]
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