Open consultation on the draft Note on Critical, Emerging and Enduring Issues Deadline: 24 April 2026

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🆕Open consultation on the draft note on "Critical, emerging and enduring issues” (CEEI) to inform the programme of work of the Committee on World Food Security.

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⏰ Deadline: 24 April 2026

Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper.

🌱Episode 1 of Agroecology Uprooted by @iatp.bsky.social looks at the current food system and the potential for a radically sustainable approach to food and agriculture: Agroecology.

🎧 Listen here: www.iatp.org/agroecology-...
#Agroecology #FoodSystems #FoodSystemsTransformation

Geographic Ignorance, the Iran War, and the End of US Hegemony - AAG AAG - Geographic Ignorance, the Iran War, and the End of US Hegemony - All -

My latest presidential column for the newsletter of the @geographers.bsky.social. Thanks to Alec Murphy, Dan Trudeau and Katrinka Somdahl for feedback on earlier versions of this. Thanks as well to @macalestercollege.bsky.social student Sophia Spisak for making the map www.aag.org/geographic-i...

Three of my honors students present and defend their @macalestercollege.bsky.social #geography senior honors theses next week. So proud of their work!

Macalester Ranks 4th Among Peace Corps’ 2026 Top Volunteer-Producing Small Colleges www.macalester.edu/news/2026/04...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Entanglements Lost: My Day at a Geography Conference in San Francisco On making friends with maps and Marxists.

Entanglements Lost: My Day at a Geography Conference in San Francisco www.coyotemedia.org/entanglement...

Great day visiting farms in NW Wisconsin with my @macalestercollege.bsky.social geog 232 class (Food, Agriculture and the Environment).

Climate Scientist Jonathan Foley Honored by American Association of Geographers The AAG Confers its Top Honor, the Atlas Award, on Environmental Scientist Jonathan Foley, in San Francisco March 19 I

Climate Scientist Jonathan Foley Honored by American Association of Geographers www.jsonline.com/press-releas...

Geography Convention About the Convention The South Dakota State Geography Convention is the longest-running student-organized and -sponsored annual meeting in the United States. Approximately 10 eminent academic and appl...

Looking forward to attending the SDSU geography convention this Friday
www.sdstate.edu/geography-ge...

Climate Scientist Jonathan Foley Honored by American Association of Geographers The AAG Confers its Top Honor, the Atlas Award, on Environmental Scientist Jonathan Foley, in San Francisco March 19 I

Climate Scientist Jonathan Foley Honored by American Association of Geographers - Palm Beach Daily News share.google/lEjOtrLyecrR...

Thanks to everyone who came out for the @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting presidential plenary today on "Catalyzing Positive Food System Change." I am especially pleased that I was able to hold up the work of junior scholars Daniela Marini and Li Zhang

Can't wait to hear Jennifer Clapp present on her new book tomorrow, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture"

Can't wait to hear Jennifer Clapp present on her new book tomorrow, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture"

I am so looking forward to Jon's talk this evening. I cannot think of a more effective public intellectual working on critical human-environment questions

Slide that says Catalyzing Positive Food Systems Change: Geography and the Future of Food and Agriculture and includes the names of the panelists: Julie Guthman, UC Santa Cruz, Handson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver, Daniela marini, Grand Valley State University, and Li Zhang, Amherst College

HAPPENING NOW: Presidential plenary with President @williamgmoseley on catalyzing positive food system change. With Julie Guthman, UC Santa Cruz, Handson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver, Daniela Marini, Grand Valley State University, and Li Zhang, Amherst College. #AAG2026

#aag2026 Please join us for 2 back-to-back sessions this morning (Wed) on "Applying political ecology to better understand agrifood systems today" from 8:30-11:30 in Hilton Union Square 17 & 18, 4th Floor, Hilton, Tower 3 @cape-aag.bsky.social

Super excited about the start of the annual meeting of the @geographers.bsky.social in San Francisco. The staff have been busy getting ready for you. Please join us for the opening reception at 5:30 tomorrow (Tues). I had a fun walk about the Union Square neighborhood this evening. #aag2026

Please join us for the 13th Mande Studies Association Conference in Dakar, Senegal on June 21-24, 2027. The theme is "Sovereignty, Reconfigurations and Recompositions: The Mande Sphere, West Africa and the World." See link for submission details: mandestudies.org/conference/

Bridging Difficult Conversations - AAG AAG - Bridging Difficult Conversations - All -

My March presidential column for the newsletter of the @geographers.bsky.social : "Bridging Difficult Conversations"
www.aag.org/bridging-dif...

world affairs african agriculture 022426 YouTube video by World Michigan

Recording of my book talk (on Decolonizing African Agriculture) on February 24, 2026 with the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, MI. It includes a good Q&A w/ audience members at the end youtu.be/FtixUmlpN9E

Wonderful day with the World Affairs Committee presenting in Holland, MI, Aquinos College and Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI. Thanks to Mike Devivo for organizing. Great to see cousin Mary Macqueen and former @macalestercollege.bsky.social student Webster An

This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order Our analysis situates the current COVID-19 induced food crisis within a longer-term historical perspective on policy responses to past food crises. We argue that the legacies left by these past pol...

Bringing back a fav—as we think of what gets a food systems moving by tracing what got it to move in the past

This food crisis is different: COVID-19 & the fragility of the neoliberal food security order

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @williamgmoseley.bsky.social

Please to have published this article in volume 27 of Mande Studies: "La colonisation intellectuelle de l’agriculture ouest-africaine et la perspective d’un avenir plus décolonial: l’expérience agroécologique au Mali" (muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...). Message me for a copy

Looking forward to this!

PS1 - Feeling Minnesota (PowerfulStories #1) PLEASE LEND YOUR EARS: This inaugural episode of 'Powerful Stories" (PS1) features a chorus of Minnesotavoices—frontline witnesses, supportive neighbors, community …

I am proud to have played a small part in this 37 mins podcast of front line voices from the ICE crackdown and local resistance in Minnesota. My comments are sprinkled 6-7 times throughout www.softpowerfulstories.org/ps1-feeling-...

PS1 - Feeling Minnesota (PowerfulStories #1) PLEASE LEND YOUR EARS: This inaugural episode of 'Powerful Stories" (PS1) features a chorus of Minnesotavoices—frontline witnesses, supportive neighbors, community …

Very proud to have been one of the many Minnesota voices in this 37 mins podcast on the ICE crackdown in the Twin Cities and the local resistance www.softpowerfulstories.org/ps1-feeling-...

Disrespect for the Rule of Law Undermines Science and Fundamental Social Norms - AAG AAG - Disrespect for the Rule of Law Undermines Science and Fundamental Social Norms - All -

"Disrespect for the Rule of Law Undermines Science and Fundamental Social Norms"

"[The] hard-fought gains for a more peaceful, humane and sustainable world, in which many geographers played a critical role, must not be relinquished."
by @williamgmoseley.bsky.social

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For my Italian-speaking friends, my February presidential column for the newsletter of @geographers.bsky.social
(translated into Italian by the Italian Geography Society): "Intervento presidente AAG sui fatti di Minneapolis" www.ageiweb.it/eventi-e-inf...