The International Alliance for Localization (IAL) is a worldwide localization movement and provides a network to support and connect place-based economies and local communities. Watch a short video compilation of IAL members describing what localization means to them. Make sure to join and become part of the localization movement!
Download the Introduction to the IAL to find out more. Available in the following languages: Basque / Euskara • Dutch / Nederlands • Dzongkha / རྫོང་ཁ་ • French / Français • German / Deutsch • Japanese / 日本語 • Spanish / Español
Become an IAL member
Join the IAL as an individual or an organization. As a member you will be able to engage with other like-minded members around the world and inform yourself about key policy issues and campaigns.
How to connect
The IAL members are part of a communication platform, the IAL Listserv. It provides a space to share and exchange experiences, resources, events, campaigns, and more, that will build a strong collective voice for localization. Click for guidelines below:
The IAL organisation members are located all over the world and working in a wide range of topics: sustainable food and agriculture, workers' rights, local economy, indigenous knowledge, and more. Browse a collection of organisation members below:
Local economies rebuild our connections to one another and to the natural world – connections that are essential not only for our wellbeing, but for our survival.
Resistance and Renewal
The IAL provides a platform for both resistance and renewal: helping to counter economic globalization while simultaneously encouraging the regeneration of healthy ecosystems and communities. Our activities include:
Promoting local alternatives
Promoting local alternatives
– at the grassroots and policy level – to large-scale mass-production for basic needs, especially food.
Fostering an understanding
Fostering an understanding
of the importance of cultural and biological diversity for peace, economic security, and both personal and planetary health.
Forging partnerships
Forging partnerships
in support of economic localization around the world. We believe that localization can unite diverse groups in both North and South.
Spreading awareness
Spreading awareness
about the growing threats to democracy, society and the environment posed by the deregulation of global trade and finance.
Sharing information
Sharing information
about the many initiatives aimed at localizing economies, rebuilding resilience, strengthening food security, and protecting cultural integrity.