Women from the favela food security project in a favela of Recife learn how to use food waste and some old buckets to make fertiliser.

Our partners in northeast Brazil ran a fundraising campaign to expand their work from one favela into nine. Not only did they meet their target - they smashed it!

Mariana set up a centre demonstrating the techniques with a black women’s group from the community of Passarinho. It works. People who were hungry have grown their own food, and medicine as well.

Our friends have launched a platform detailing regenerative work and food security with poor urban communities.

In their words…

We would like to present the Rede pela Transição platform, which supports learning journeys focused on ecological education.

Classical music in Oxford provides tools for farmers switching to regenerative agriculture by holding a fundraiser.

Supporting agro-ecologists Daniel and Carol, who started cultivating food on a degraded pasture, despite their neighbour Zé thinking they were crazy.

As land degraded by cattle farming is virtually useless for producing crops - at least, that's the case for conventional farming.

Agroforestry is different, mimicking nature by planting many species together rather than just one species in a monoculture. Each plant adds something to the soil, which helps the land to recover.