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Today, agricultural systems are facing multiple challenges, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, dwindling resources, degradation of soil and water quality. Agroecology can strengthen the sustainability and resilience of farming systems and thus contribute to addressing these challenges. Based on the premise that Open Innovation Arrangements (OIAs) and in particular...
Project
2021
The European Commission has proposed a European partnership “Accelerating farming systems transition: agroecology living labs and research infrastructures” in order to structure and support a network of living labs and research infrastructures that will accelerate the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe. It will allow long-term, site-specific, multi-stakeholder, and real-life experimentation,...
Article
2021
Farming in Europe has been transformed over the last 70 years by policies, technologies, and practices that sought to guarantee a stable supply of affordable food. But success has come at the cost of mounting environmental degradation. Under Horizon 2020, the European Union (EU) funded several research projects dedicated to advancing...
Article
2021
This policy brief is one in a series led by Chulalongkorn University with support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Thailand, in partnership with FAO. The series was initiated to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Work Plan on Education, 2016–2020 implementation while...
Thailand
Policy brief/paper
2021
This paper examines agroecology within Europe, its dynamics, its position within a broader politico-economic framework and its political significance. It argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture. In this respect, it has a strategically important...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Journal article
2021
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