About NFUniversity
With classes on the second and fourth Thursday of each month from January through April, NFUniversity features experts, researchers, farmers, and others on topics ranging from climate change, agroecology, seed policy, carbon markets, and beyond. The sessions build upon the foundational knowledge many NFU members and others already have, delving deeper to advance our understanding to a higher level, and increase our capacities to analyze and advocate. Recordings of previous NFUniversity classes are posted on our Past Classes page.
Classes take place on Zoom, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific time. Each class includes a question-and-answer period after the speaker’s presentation.
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2024-25 Schedule
Course Details
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): The NFU’s recent report
Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) are lower-emission, non-fossil-fuel energy sources for the world’s aircraft fleet—“drop-in” fuels that require no modifications to aircraft or engines. The proposal is to make SAFs largely
Achieving Security and Justice through Collective Action and Solidarity
How do rising farm debts, land commodification, and market dependence create insecurity and undermine rural communities? Learn from Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker and activist about how solidarity serves as both a principle and practice to achieve security and justice through collective action and interdependence.
Green Grabbing & IPES-Food Land Squeeze Report
Explore how “green” initiatives like carbon offsets, biofuel crops, and tree plantations are driving land inequality and food insecurity. With insights from the IPES-Food Land Squeeze Report and expert Sofía Monsalve Suárez, you'll uncover the realities of land grabbing, its impacts on smallholder farmers, and innovative solutions being pursued globally, including in Colombia. Join us to dive into the urgent fight for land justice and sustainable agriculture.
Do we have the Right to Repair in Canada?
The right to repair goes beyond the ability for consumers to repair electronics, appliances, and machinery. The right to repair is about independence and freedom from major manufacturers in order to have access to timely and inexpensive repairs, as well as operability between products that suit the needs of consumers and farm businesses.
Too much IS too much! Confronting ecological overshoot
Join Bill Rees and Rick Munroe as they unpack the root cause of our environmental crises—ecological overshoot—and explore how communities can prepare for a sustainable future amidst the challenges of unchecked growth and resource depletion.
A better world is possible! Utopia in Thought and Action
Utopia is not an ideal created by philosophers– it is the real struggle in our everyday lives to organize the spaces of our lives around freedom, flourishing, and solidarity instead of accumulation, alienation, and domination. Join in on imagining a better world for farmers, farming and agriculture is an essential tool for change.
