Agroecology

Virtual Event

NFUniversity is inviting you to register for our class on Agroecology presented on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Agroecology is a way of farming, and a way of thinking about farming.  It takes seriously

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Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships

What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo- pimâtisiwin ᒥᔪ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ (the good life) and specifically to good economic relations? Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ (Plains Cree people) to explain settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation.

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NFUniversity 2023/2024

Decolonizing the Climate, Biodiversity and Food Crises: Critical Indigenous Approaches

What do Indigenous perspectives tell us about interlocking Earth crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and food injustice, and ways to respond to these?  How can work on climate, food and sustainability center Indigenous knowledges in ways that foreground Indigenous peoples' decolonial struggles for land defense and land rematriation, biocultural diversity restoration, and the restitution of land-based sovereignty--including food sovereignty?  

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