Launched in 2020, NESAWG’s Sankofa Series is a webinar series sharing the wisdom of our network and community who are working towards an equitable and just food system. Our 2024 series will be lifting voices of color, focusing on our history and roots, celebrating identities and cultures, and learning from movements of resilience and change. SANKOFA SERIES Sankofa is a […]
Extreme Food Insecurity and the Rise of FAHNN: A Community-Led Farmer’s Market Story November 2024 Watch the webinar with Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now! (FAHNN)’s Rhonda S. Vesey. She organized neighbors in the Valley/Southside of Syracuse, NY to create a grassroots farmers market in a food desert. November 2024 Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now! (FAHNN) […]
Join NESAWG and United Nations trainer Joshua Cooper as we continue to build our testimonies & recommendations for the 4th UN-USA Cycle of the Universal Periodic Report (UPR) to ensure that the Right to Food, People’s Rights & Nature’s Rights are upheld, protected and enforced. Click Here to Register Advancing the Right to Food […]
In 2023, NESAWG is developing stakeholder groups and policy councils centering voices of color. This is an important year with the 2023 Farm Bill. It is important for us all to work together. If you are interested to find out more information and join an orientation session fill out our Policy Form! Join the policy […]
Farmers: Tell Congress the 2023 Farm Bill Should Support You! Source: NSAC Farmers, sign this letter to tell Congress: the next Farm Bill must be a climate bill. The next farm bill is being written now, and we need it to address climate change. Farmers need resources like funding, research, and risk management to implement […]
NEASDA: Organized northeast sustainable agriculture “delegations” to the winter Policy Conference in Hershey, PA and the NASDA conference in Saratoga Springs, NY Held monthly NEASDA organizing meetings with a focus on equity, transparency, and sharing solutions between Northeast states. Continued some internal group work in small groups of defining the group’s purpose and values. Presented […]
NESAWG is assessing how we can best support regional Farm Bill policy coordination across our region. To that end, we have created a policy survey for organizations working within NESAWG’s geographic region to collect information on policy priorities, needs, and relationships that we can leverage for greater alignment during the 2023 Farm Bill cycle. If […]
We prioritize policy issues based on alignment with our core values, relevance to NESAWG network participants, and ability to increase equity and sustainability in the Northeast. NESAWG does not run its own campaigns or create coalitions, but rather engages our network in support of the campaigns and coalitions created by our partners, prioritizing the issues […]
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November 2014 The following statement was developed in 2014 and since then our RJE work and analysis is ongoing. We continue to reflect and evaluate the best way for us to publicly share our RJE commitment. NESAWG Statement of Intent, November 10, 2014 Our commitment to a fair and just food system dates back to […]
May 2022 NESAWG found the need to frame our Network Conversation – and subsequent conversations on regional food systems change – using a Freirean approach to introduce the lens of a critical analysis and the development of a collective critical consciousness. We strive for a liberated consciousness that can self-reflect and generate action towards systems […]
November 2022 Recently, the NESAWG team got together to imagine our collective work in the years ahead. To help spark inspiration, we asked ourselves the same question we’d like to ask you now: What does liberation look like in 10 years? Click here to add your idea of liberation to our vision board! <
In case you missed previous announcements, we sadly had to cancel our 2022 It Takes a Region conference. We will definitely miss our in-person gathering this Fall, but NESAWG will be reaching out to you in various ways as we dive deeper into our commitment to the region. We are committed to the Northeast region and […]
In 2023, NESAWG will embark on a deep and intentional commitment to a long-term transformation in the Northeast region with the focus of creating a farm and food system for ALL that is regenerative, scalable, replicable, and rooted in love. In this transformation process, they will center voices of color and celebrate BIPOC leaders who have been […]
