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February 26, 2025 6-8pm

Leahy 102, 105 Carrigan Dr Burlington VT 05405 

Virtual option as well

Through the Lens of the Lived Experience of "No Recourse to Public Funds":

A Reflection on Collaborative Photovoice Methodologies 

November 13, 2024

The ����̽̽ Institute for Agroecology is excited to welcome scholar-activist Jasber Singh Ph.D. to the next edition of our Power Up Speaker Series! Join us in person or virtually to learn more about his work at the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience at Coventry University (UK).⁠
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Jasber has several years of experience designing, delivering and evaluating participatory action research projects on social and environmental justice at the local, national and international level.⁠
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In this seminar, Dr Singh will share his experiences using photovoice methodologies to amplify the impact of participatory research that seeks to advance justice and equity.⁠

Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

October 23, 2024

Join for a conversation with Liz Carlisle about her recent book, Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming. In Healing Grounds, Carlisle shares stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This, Carlisle argues, is the true regenerative agriculture – not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people.⁠
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Liz Carlisle is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. She has written three books about regenerative farming and agroecology: Lentil Underground (2015), Grain by Grain (2019, with co-author Bob Quinn), and most recently, Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming (2022).⁠

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Agroecology and Abolition

April 10, 2024

We are excited to announce an upcoming talk by scholar-activist and collaborator, Maywa Montenegro, as a part of our Power Up Speaker Series! We will get to hear from Maywa about the intersection of agroecology and abolition, based on her paper and mini-book, as well as learn about her family heritage and nonlinear journey into academia.

Towards agroecological futures: Learnings from participatory action research processes in Spain

April 26, 2023

In this seminar, Daniel López will share findings and outcomes from the systematization of agroecological transitions in eight Spanish territories. These cases, in different contexts (rural, urban and city-region) shed light on the processes, challenges and strategies needed to support agroecology transitions. Daniel will also discuss the role of conventional farmers within agroecological transitions.

Where does agroecology rely on a colonial nutrition discourse and how can we disrupt this in ways that advance health equity?

April 5, 2023

In this seminar, dietitian Lucy Aphramor will revisit public health nutrition messages to show how these embed an ableist, healthist, neoliberal ideology. Centering work by scholars that highlights anti-Blackness as co-constituted with anti-fatness, we will explore ways to surface and disrupt the deep logic of coloniality locked in place by public health nutrition to develop a liberatory nutrition narrative that aligns with agroecological transition.