Below is a description of just one of the many workshops happening at the National Food Sovereignty Gathering 23-26 Oct. in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, where I live, that I thought would particularly interest Bob, relevant to the discussions we have had in the past about farming, and solutions to mass production and feeding the world.
'We (Colin Anderson, Csilla Kiss, Michel Pimbert) are at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University and are working with a group of social movement organizations, farmer organizations and progressive research/advocacy groups in Europe and beyond to promote a bottom-up or People's agroecology that is embedded within the food sovereignty movement in contrast to a technocratic agroecology being promoted by powerful institutions. As a part of this, we work to amplify the voice and perspective of food providers and to work together on participatory action research that brings resources to the struggles through the co-production of knowledge and action. Our partners in Europe include the Land Workers' Alliance, the European Coordination of LVC, GRAIN and others.'