Ana María Noguera, a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at GenTIC, participated in the VIII Agroecology Conference of Bahia ‘Rural and urban alliance to fight hunger and poverty’, which took place in the Brazilian city of Salvador from 29 January to 2 February 2025. The event was organised by A Teia Dos Povos (The Weaving of the Peoples), an articulation of communities, social moments, and rural and urban political organisations that have been working for more than 13 years in defence of the earth and the territory.

The VIII Agroecology Conference of Bahia brought together more than 5000 people from different regions of Brazil and other countries, and became a space for dissemination and exchange between traditional and scientific knowledge. For five days, the event provided a space for dialogue between indigenous people, kilombolas, farmers, peasants, activists and academics from rural and urban communities on issues such as food sovereignty, agroecology, climate emergency and climate justice, disaster prevention and adaptation, and ecological transformation. In addition, the importance of ancestral knowledge in relation to all these issues was recognised.

Ana María Noguera leads the INDIWOMINT project, which aims to learn from Amazonian indigenous technologies and, in alliance with Western technologies, to propose ways of sustainable development and climate change mitigation. This meeting was a very valuable opportunity to share insights and learn from the knowledge keepers of the popular university of A Teia Dos Povos.

Photos: (c) A Teia Dos Povos Communication Team.