The impact of climate change and the capacity to mitigate its negative impacts are unevenly distributed across and within societies; it is the poorer, marginalised and vulnerable groups who are the most acutely affected. ACCTING has collected 358 narratives via...
Farm to Fork
ACCTING Narrative: Considerations on eating patterns and sustainability
The impact of climate change and the capacity to mitigate its negative impacts are unevenly distributed across and within societies; it is the poorer, marginalised and vulnerable groups who are the most acutely affected. ACCTING has collected 358 narratives via...
ACCTING Narrative: Self-reliance and connecting with nature
Tünde, 62, Hungary, on self-reliance and connecting with nature.
ACCTING Narrative: Loving nature, living from the nature
Nowadays it is very rare, especially under 30, that someone knows which one is a ‘good’ herb and which one is a ‘bad’ plant while the previous generations have known all about them.
Indigenous Women’s Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Reservation Association
ATIX Mulher (Brazil) is the female branch of the Indigenous organisation of Women’s Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Reservation Association. During the pandemic in 2020, the inhabitants of the Xingu Indigenous Reservation were heavily affected in their food security. Atix Mulher has campaigned for food, hygiene products and agricultural tools for the 16 ethnic groups of the reservation. It has helped gather food donations and has set out a collective crowdfunding that has benefitted 130 villages. Currently, items such as crafts and honey, produced by the villagers, help with capital to keep the small agriculture-based businesses running.
Empowering small farmers through the cocoa initiative in Brazil
Starting in 2012, in the municipality of São Félix do Xingu, in southeastern Pará, the initiative has supported 310 family members with the “Cocoa More Sustainable” project to enhance the recovery and regeneration of around 1,000 hectares of cocoa plantations through agroforestry systems.
Seeds of transformation: Empowering communities through green jobs and food justice
The initiative focuses on creating employment opportunities in the green sector for individuals transitioning from incarceration. Since 2009, the project has established more than 550 permaculture gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, enabling people to grow their own food.
Training Roma people to move them out of their deprived situation
The Kiút programme is a work-integrated training program in which vulnerable Roma people with a predominantly minority background are provided with training and mentoring on how to grow cucumbers on their land and generate income by selling the surplus through companies contracted by the program maintainers. In addition to practical agricultural, entrepreneurial, and accounting skills, underserved, vulnerable people learn pro-environmental values and obtain education about sustainable food production and consumption.
The development of the agri-food and socio-economic model
ACCTING aims to understand the impact of Green Deal policies on vulnerable groups, prevent inequalities, and produce knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change at individual and collective levels for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal. This...
An economic and cultural socio-ecosystem connecting the countryside and the city
Kilombo is a collaborative project between the cooperatives LaFundició, Keras Buti, Tarpuna I Voltes, the association Keras Buti and the Distributor Ecocentral.

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Women, Villages, Forests: Local Struggle and Solidarity Experiences from Greece and Türkiye [webinar held in Greek & Turkish]
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Webinar: More Inclusive Sustainability Policies
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Webinar: Research Supporting Social Impact – Sustainability through Innovation
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Webinar: Advancing Social Science Research for a Just Green Transition
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Webinar: Transformative Resistance: Engaging marginalised groups for a just green transition
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Webinar: Wellbeing as a driver for sustainable behavioural change
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Webinar: Collaborative governance for just urban transitions: How to build public-civil society partnerships?
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Webinar series: Addressing Knowledge Gaps for a More Inclusive Green Deal
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