Thursday 8 October, 18:15

Farming Differently: Agroecology, Hunger and Climate

Free, Booking Required

Speakers include the coordinator of Action de Carême’s Kenya programme and analysts behind the Sufosec Alliance’s 2026 World Food Report, combining frontline experience and large-scale household data to assess agroecology’s impacts.

This session examines how agroecology addresses hunger and the climate crisis by evaluating food-security outcomes, highlighting women’s central role in agriculture, and presenting testimonies from field practitioners. It also discusses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) as a rights-based framework for sustaining these transformations.

Rue Jean-Dassier 7,
1201 Geneva
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Photo Credit: Action de Carême

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