Agroecology Knowledge Hub

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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

The database provides a starting point to organize the existing knowledge on agroecology, collecting articles, videos, case studies, books and other important material in one place. The objective is to support policy-makers, farmers, researchers and other relevant stakeholders through knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. The database is a ‘living process’ that is constantly being updated.

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This document begins with a description of how farmers’ seed systems and formal systems interact, then discusses some of the challenges facing farmers’ seed systems including climate change, the private ownership of seeds, the difficulty of registration and certification for farmers’ seeds, and the role of international treaties on national...
Report
This guidebook is primarily tailored for use in rural areas and is designed to guide the process of identifying challenges within food systems and implementing strategies to address them. The examples provided are based on feedback from changemakers involved in community engagement. The intended audience for this guidebook includes facilitators who...
Manual
2024
This book is based on an 8-part webinar series conducted by AFSA through the Healthy Soil Healthy Food Initiative. This series covered a range of agroecological methods that foster healthy soils and ecosystems. The series, conducted from October 2023 to February 2024, was co-developed by the organising committee and the expert...
Book
2024
Over the past two decades, the Mekong region has experienced significant transformation of its agricultural sector from subsistence farming to export crops driven by the expansion of agricultural land and of irrigation, plus intensification thanks to mechanization and the use of chemical inputs. In the context of agrarian transition, maintaining...
Cambodia
Journal article
2024
Peruvian smallholder farmers have practiced Indigenous farming methods for maintaining and developing their family’s unique collection of native potato seeds for centuries. Through their farming practices, they naturally preserve their seed and potato varieties, but also slowly help evolve them over time. It’s this preservation coupled with evolution that’s critical...
Peru
Article
2024
This policy factsheet aims to present decision and policymakers and experts in the context of international cooperation with concise information on how AE/O approaches can contribute to a beneficial transformation of production systems in the Tropics. It concisely argues that agroecology and organic can facilitate a beneficial transformation of production systems...
Fact sheet
2024
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