The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) is a leading Palestinian non-profit organization dedicated to the development and support of the agricultural sector in Palestine. Established in 1986, UAWC has played a pivotal role in empowering Palestinian farmers, enhancing livelihood of Palestinians, and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. The UAWC strives for food sovereignty and the defense of farmers' rights, advocating for their causes both locally and globally. We are engaged in a fierce struggle with the occupation to reach thousands of besieged farmers in the West Bank and Gaza, aiming to strengthen their steadfastness and help them remain on their lands. Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of Palestinian farmers through capacity building, advocacy, and the implementation of innovative agricultural projects. UAWC is committed to advancing social justice, food sovereignty, and the protection of the rights of peasants and rural workers.

It is a network which is working to

1) build a shared analysis of the increasing use of charitable food aid, private philanthropy, and transnational corporate food banking as a flawed response to hunger and poverty;

2) Build collective strategies of resistance and alternative models and practices to promote the fulfilment of the right to nutritious food in our respective parts of the world;

and 3) Build global solidarity with and accompany our global allies who have long felt the perverse effects of resource extraction and colonialism, upheld through racism and white supremacy, by our governments thereby opening collective pathways to authentic struggle for food sovereignty as a right of all people everywhere.

The National Right to Food Community of Practice formed in early 2021 to weave together the various streams of right to food work across the U.S., providing dedicated technical support and capacity building for the development of informed and coordinated food and farm policy and advocacy. Rooted in shared learning, our growing community includes advocates, legal experts, community organizers, food and farm organizations, small scale food producers and those with lived experience of hunger.

• We expose the social injustice behind our food systems, from growing and harvesting to procurement. The issue is not only what you eat, but how it is produced.
• We struggle for an egalitarian distribution of resources, so people can feed themselves. We don’t provide food.
• We fight for fair access to food. We don’t promote the increase of food production: There is already enough food to feed the entire world.
• We work with a wide network of social movements and civil society actors around the world. We don’t go solo.
• Affected communities tell us what the problem is and we bring their voices to policy spaces. We don’t speak for them. They know best!
• We see food as something more than to keep us alive. We see food as part of our own identity and cultural legacy.
• We encourage the mobilization and organization of people who want to change the world.

URGENCI is the international grassroot network of all forms of regional and Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology (LSPAs), of which Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is the best-known iteration. URGENCI is an acronym standing for An Urban-Rural networks: GEnerating New forms of exchanges between CItizens. As a social movement, Réseau International URGENCI brings together citizens, small-scale food producers, consumers, activists and researchers representing Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology networks and initiatives in over 40 countries.

URGENCI’s main objective is to develop a transnational network of regional and local partnerships between producers and consumers. Education, broadly, is the founding activity of the network: sharing experiences and educational materials is a top priority to support local groups in improving their practices and building a solid pan-European and global community. This practical work to build, develop, and empower LSPAs is motivated by our involvement in the international movements for food sovereignty and solidarity economy. URGENCI’s strength lies in its in-house expertise with knowledge sharing, transmission, and delivery in the context of adult education and training programs. Much of our work connects people and networks across borders so that they may learn from each other through development and the sharing of practical tools.

MIRAMAP is a movement that brings together several regional AMAP groups (there are about 3,000 AMAP groups in France) whose aim is to develop agroecological agriculture within the framework of sustainable regional development, where the commercial relationship between producer and consumer is deconstructed by establishing a contract of solidarity: AMAP members undertake to assume with the farmer the climatic and health risks and the risks inherent in production.

The AMAP (association for the preservation of peasant agriculture) remains an alternative to the transformation of the agro-industrial system and large-scale distribution, but it is necessary to demonstrate that there can be practices other than market relations in the territories. A decent income for workers in agriculture, food processing and distribution is possible if the right to food of each inhabitant is recognised (by law) in the framework of a food democracy that guarantees their decision-making power.

In Espigoladors we fight for a better food usage while empowering people at risk of social exclusion from a transformative, participative, inclusive and sustainable way. We are a non-profit organisation which acts upon three social challenges: developing a replicable and transferable model able to impact food waste reduction, enhancing access to an adequate diet and generating new opportunities for people at risk of social exclusion.

It is presented as a set of actions aimed at generating a healthy and sustainable food strategy for the municipality of Cordoba.

It arises from the confluence in a consortium of a series of entities with experience and/or interest in the construction of sustainable agri-food systems in the city of Cordoba, which is reinforced by the political impetus provided by the signing of the Milan Pact in 2016, and the constitution of the coordination table of this pact.

A proposal where they interact in a horizontal and transparent plan.

.... neighbourhood movements, such as neighbourhood associations and their federations, informal neighbourhood support networks, the PAH and other entities linked to exclusions as a result of the law on foreigners, etc.

.... the Social and Solidarity Economy movement,

.... the Food Sovereignty movement, together with the agro-ecological peasantry.

ALTERBANC is now a plural space made up of organisations and individuals from these three categories.
ALTERBANC's aim is to be an umbrella for grouping actions, strengthening them and making them visible, or an inspiration and reference to facilitate adaptations located in any other territory and context that will make it possible to generate a real alternative network of interconnected nodes.

This is an initiative of volunteer citizens that offers a warm dinner every day to people surviving on the streets of San Sebastian since November 2020. It is cooked in the homes of the participants or in gastronomic societies. During the course, once a week, students studying cooking cook for KAS and the Basajaun community kitchen also prepares a weekly dinner. The distribution of the dinner is in three different areas of the city: Teresa de Calcutta square in Egia, New square in the Old Town and next to the Amara soccer field, at 20:30 in the evening. KASkide can perform two main functions: cook and/or distribution assistant (picking up bread, buying fruit/yoghurt, preparing bags, etc.). All expenses (material and food) are covered from the pockets of the participants and sponsors.

Agharas is a private, non-political, non-denominational and non-profit Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in April 2013 by a group of Imazighen immigrants actively committed and concerned about intercultural awareness and social cohesion.

It began by raising awareness of a hitherto invisible reality in the town of Barakaldo, where dozens of young people land in search of a future and a better lifestyle than in their countries of origin and what they find is a path full of stones and difficulties.

The work of Agharas is to help them along this path and facilitate access to all those rights and possibilities that they have as citizens.

Zapalan Elkartea was set up in 2018 by a group of social educators and residents of the town of Orduña who were concerned about the vulnerable situation of unaccompanied foreign youths after they came of age. From this concern and an analysis of the needs of this group, a movement arose in Orduña to create, with the support of the parish and the town council, a housing solution for these young people.

Throughout 2018, this group of people formed Zapalan Elkartea to respond to the housing, training, employment and social needs of this group. Initially, we started the Aintzinako Enea project, a residential facility located in the Sanctuary of La Antigua. As a result of the support provided to the residents of Antzinako Enea, collaboration began with different associations in the area to work on food sovereignty issues and with Orduña Town Council in the creation of a municipal food strategy.

We are a collective of farmers and citizens who work and promote Agroecology in the Basque Country. From our farmhouses, and together with society, we want to make healthy and affordable food for everyone, based on respect for the land, for all animals and for all people. We promote the theoretical and, above all, the practical work of agroecology, from the perspective and collaboration of citizens, so that our farms walk together on the path of Agroecology.

Baladre is a Coordination of collectives from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, as well as collectives and people from the South American cone, with different sensibilities, but with a common will: to denounce inequality, impoverishment and exclusion in any of its forms. The collectives that participate in the Baladre Coordination have been doing so both in specific social struggles and/or at the local level, as well as at the global level, in state and international mobilisations such as the Marches against unemployment, against the Europe of Capital or against the International Monetary Fund.

One of the struggles that strengthen the Coordination of Baladre, and that we use as a tool that unifies the diversity of demands of the collectives and groups that fight for social transformation (decent housing, free transport, distribution of all jobs, no to repression and prison,...) is the struggle for the right to a Basic Income of equality for all people, which allows us to live in dignity.

REAS Euskadi, Network of Alternative and Solidarity Economy, was born in 1997 and seeks to develop solidarity economy, understood as a vision and a practice that vindicates the economy in its different facets (production, financing, trade and consumption) as a means - and not as an end - at the service of the sustainability of life. It is a network that forms part of an economic, social and political movement that contributes to the transformation of the current local and global socio-economic system by promoting alternative economic initiatives.

To this end, it develops inter-cooperation, training and awareness-raising activities, social and institutional dialogue and networking with other organisations and platforms. It also promotes initiatives and tools for the growth of an alternative social market, the construction of habitable organisations from a feminist perspective, the implementation of its own social audit, the promotion of transformative public policies and the development of services for social and cooperative entrepreneurship.

It is a second-degree non-profit association that brings together organisations with different legal statuses: cooperatives, associations, insertion companies, networks, etc. that join together because they identify with the solidarity economy, share objectives and collaborate in the construction of a more sustainable, fair and inclusive economy.

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