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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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On the Economic Potential of Agroecology

This factsheet gives an overview of the economic viability and potential of agroecology – highlighting how diverse agroecological farming systems together with advances of organic farming practices can lead to an overall higher productivity compared to monocultures or cash-crop systems.  Relying on various exemplary studies conducted between 2014 and 2023 within the framework of ProSoil, it further...
Fact sheet
2024

Why climate philanthropy must increase funding to grassroots agroecology movements

This article calls for increased funding for Climate and Food Systems Transformation. Currently less than two percent of global philanthropic giving goes toward climate mitigation and only three percent of all climate finance is allocated to food systems, an even smaller fraction to farmer, fisher or Indigenous-led organizations.  In December 2023, at the launch...
Article
2024

Assessing the agroecological performance and sustainability of Community Supported Agriculture farms in Flanders, Belgium

Agroecology is receiving increasing attention and recognition as a concept for transitions to more sustainable agricultural and food systems. There is however a lack of characterization of agroecology in agricultural and food systems, while integrated and holistic measurements of their sustainability are scarce. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is considered to...
Belgium
Journal article
2024

A blueprint for regenerating Ugandan's food system through purpose-driven entrepreneurship

This blueprint conveys the findings of the food systems mapping exercise, carried out through the bottom-up venture building process which starts with an intensive problem loving phase: during the August 2023 Rootical Food System Leadership bootcamp, 40 Ugandans (50% women) engaged in a comprehensive training and participatory food system analysis....
Uganda
Book
2023

Strengthening urban and peri‑urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition, in the context of urbanization and rural transformation

This report provides guiding principles and actionable recommendations for policymakers to improve Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in urban and peri-urban areas by reorienting their food systems towards better nutrition, environmental sustainability and agency. In an era in which almost 80 percent of the global population resides in urban and peri-urban ...
Report
2024

Food From Somewhere - Building food security and resilience through territorial markets

This report provides a comprehensive overview of diverse food webs. It documents their critical contributions to sustaining producer livelihoods, ensuring access to healthy food for the poorest populations, sustaining cultures and communities, and keeping people fed in the face of shocks. The report urges governments to reinvest in local and...
Report
2024
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