Agroecology in Practice: Chimanimani, Zimbabwe

by Precious Phiri, Regeneration International Africa Director

Last month, I joined PELUM Zimbabwe (a national agroecology network) and partner organisations TSURO Trust and PORETO for a field visit in Chimanimani District in the eastern high and lowlands of Zimbabwe. This visit became a reminder of why networked, community-rooted programmes matter in the fight for food sovereignty in Zimbabwe, and beyond. Agroecology and regenerative agriculture don’t advance in isolation, they advance through shared learning, unified advocacy, and programmes that centre farmers as the experts they are.

The visit was part of the ongoing joint learning between grassroots agroecological organisations, with government stakeholders. The process is critical in shaping the narrative, building capacity and strategies of how to scale up to a point of nourishing the nation and influencing policy. On the ground, results speak for themselves because farmers are at centre stage and this short story is one of many happening around the world.

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Mexico Delays GMO Labeling Rules Amid Corporate Pressure

Civil organizations are sounding the alarm over Mexico’s failure to publish regulations for its General Law on Adequate and Sustainable Food — regulations that were due in October 2024 and remain unpublished. At stake is mandatory front-of-package labeling for foods containing GMOs and products made with toxic herbicides like glyphosate. Advocates say the Secretariats of Economy and Agriculture are bowing to pressure from transnational food corporations to water down or eliminate labeling requirements — even as the U.S. already mandates GMO labeling. Researchers and food sovereignty advocates are calling on the Mexican government to fulfill its legal obligations and prioritize citizens’ right to know what’s in their food.

Read “Mexico’s Agriculture & Economy Secretariats Pushing to Stop Labelling GMO & Toxic Pesticide Use in Food” by Nancy Flores

Seed Sovereignty, Biodiversity, and the Future of Food Systems: An Interview with Navdanya International

by Lifestyle Mind

"There’s a quiet revolution happening beneath our feet — in the soil, in the seeds, and in the hands of those who still choose to grow food in harmony with nature.

At a time when industrial agriculture dominates the global narrative, promising efficiency while often leaving behind depleted soils, fragile ecosystems, and disconnected communities, an alternative vision is taking root — one grounded in biodiversity, regeneration, and seed sovereignty.

At the forefront of this movement is Ruchi Shroff, Director of Navdanya International, an organization committed to reimagining the future of food through ecological stewardship, social justice, and the protection of biodiversity.

In this interview, Ruchi Shroff shares her perspective on the urgent need to reclaim seeds, restore ecosystems, and transform the way we produce and consume food. She reflects on the challenges facing today’s global food systems and the deeper cultural shift required to build a more resilient and harmonious relationship with the Earth."

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What If a Farming Community Could Own Land Together — With No One in Charge?

That’s the idea behind the Farmland Commons model, and it’s already working in 19 states.

Most community land ownership models still put one nonprofit at the top. The Farmers Land Trust found a workaround: a little-known IRS designation that lets multiple organizations co-own farmland as equal partners. A Black-led food justice group, an Indigenous land stewardship organization, and a regional land trust can hold the same land together — equal power, no single entity calling the shots.

Individual farming families then lease from that shared foundation, building real businesses and generational wealth on land they could never have afforded to buy outright.

The kicker? The legal templates are free. Any coalition can replicate the model without ever calling The Farmers Land Trust. A group in Tennessee is already doing it — using the structure as an explicit act of reparations, entirely on their own terms.

As co-director Kristina Villa learned after eight years managing one of Tennessee’s largest farms: the root cause of food insecurity isn’t knowledge or work ethic. It’s land access. The Farmland Commons model is a structural answer to that structural problem.

Read “A Legal Innovation That Lets Communities Own Their Farmland” by Kevin Jones
 

Beacons of Hope: Stories from the Land-Water Nexus

by Global Alliance for the Future of Food

"In Australia’s Northern Territory, after decades of exclusion from customary rights, Aboriginal fishers are rebuilding coastal economies with commercial licences, mentoring, cultural authority, and a pathway to city buyers. On Canada’s west coast, Indigenous-led action to dismantle destructive commercial fish farms is helping to restore revered wild salmon stocks and support the return of orcas. In Uganda, fisherwomen are at the forefront of resisting military violence, state-imposed hunger, and abuse from foreign investors as they organize to reclaim the right to fish and farm. And in South Africa, decades of anti-apartheid struggle have set the stage for traditional fishing communities to mobilize and advocate for legal recognition of fishers’ rights.

These stories from around the world reveal the powerful connections between fisher movements fighting for food sovereignty and livelihoods, resisting oil and gas exploration and extraction, exposing the impact of pesticides and agrochemicals on land and water, and protecting cultural fishing rights as essential to biodiversity."

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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin Named Keynote Speaker at the 2026 Advancing Food is Medicine Conference

by Think Regeneration

"EDMOND, Oklahoma—Think Regeneration is honored to announce that Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin will be giving the opening keynote talk at the 2026 Advancing Food is Medicine conference Oct. 20-21, 2026, in Edmond, Oklahoma. The conference’s theme this year, “Regenerating Our Communities,” fits the work that Regi has been organizing for decades.

In 1988, Regi began working on economic development projects with indigenous Guatemalan communities, serving as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program’s Bureau for Latin America and as an advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples and was a founding member of the Fair Trade Federation in 1994. Since migrating to the US in 1992, Regi has led the creation and launch of multiple enterprises.

His first significant contribution to the United States’s social enterprise sector was in 1995 when he founded Peace Coffee, a Minnesota-based fair-trade coffee company. Regi’s social enterprise development work includes woodland owner cooperatives and a multitude of inner-city new immigrant enterprise efforts in Minnesota."

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How Homeopathy Can Prevent and Reduce Livestock Disease

by Emma Gillbard

"Integrating homeopathic and preventative protocols into livestock systems can avoid up to 80% of common health problems, according to veterinary surgeon and homeopathic vet Chris Aukland.

“Disease doesn’t just happen,” he says. “It is a process that builds up overtime, and when tipped over the threshold goes into crisis, where disease symptoms show.”

Stress is often the pre-cursor of disease, making animals prone to infection, he adds.

Every farm has unavoidable stress events such as livestock transportation, mixing of groups, new situations, birth, weaning, weather or nutritional change."

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