Systems-level transformation is increasingly recognized as necessary to improve the sustainability, equity, and resilience of agri-food systems. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology uses a systems transformation approach in alignment with Gliessmann (2014) and the 13 principles of agroecology outlined by the HLPE (2019). This approach requires new understandings of actor...

The University of Vermont is thrilled to share a professional development opportunity at the their Institute for Agroecology. The program is currently recruiting professionals to enroll in the Certificate of Graduate Study in Agroecology (CGSA) <https://www.uvm.edu/instituteforagroecology/full-certificate-graduate-study-agroecology>  or register for any of the individual courses as a stand-alone option. This spring, the...

How does a consumer know if their food is agroecological? How can food producers be recognized and fairly compensated for their agroecological produce? Answering these questions lies at the heart of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS). Shared knowledge and social control are critical principles of PGS and differentiate it from conventional third-party audit...

Au Bénin, nombreux sont les acteurs d'horizons divers, qu'ils soient producteurs, membres d'ONG, chercheurs, ou bien dans les sphères institutionnelles ou politiques, qui parient et s'engagent sur le déploiement de l'agroécologie, sa mise en pratique, s'appuyant sur les réalités locales et les savoirs endogènes, dans un dialogue entre pairs mais...

In Ecuador’s Intag Valley, the women’s artisan collective Mujer y Medio Ambiente (Women and the Environment) has developed an innovative way to dye and stitch fibers from the cabuya plant, an agave-like shrub. The women use environmentally friendly techniques, such as natural dyes from native plants and insects, and agroecological farming...

Since the earliest origins of agriculture, farmers and cultivated plants (or crops) have rightly been credited with securing copious food supplies and enabling the rise of complex societies. From Mesopotamia over the High Andes to the Yellow River Basin, crop domestication and farmers’ immense creativity enabled a lasting shift away...