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In February 2020, more than 100 participants from nearly 30 countries gathered together for a week-long global learning exchange on agroecology. The practitioners work at the intersection of policy, scientific research, grassroots movement-building, and natural farming practices. They were joined by 18 donors, a half-dozen advisors, and other agroecology allies.
The...
Article
2020
Agroecology has been defined based on three interdependent dimensions: as a practice, as a scientific approach, and as a social movement. As a social practice, it is expressed in the various ways in which peasant family farming and indigenous and traditional peoples and communities organize their work for the diversified...
Article
2021
The global syndemic can be read from both poles of food systems: on the one hand, agricultural production is carried out on large scales, based on the intensive use of artificial inputs, such as agrochemicals, hormones, and antibiotics; on the other, the consumption of ultra-processed foods and the culturing of deeply unhealthy...
Article
2020
Results of the Webinar “Agroecology in the Community of Portuguese language countries - State of the Art and Perspectives”
This special edition of the newsletter of the Training Center for Sustainable Family Agriculture of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CCAFS) presents the summary of two webinars carried out by the Center...
Newsletter
2021
The growing number of ecological, health, economic and social crises situations are compounding and are based on an exceptionally complex political reality that demands a systemic and holistic perspective.
This first article of a three-part contribution to Agroecology Now presents the current moment as a crisis in capitalism that demands systemic and...
Article
2020
Feeding and nourishing a growing and changing global population in the face of rising numbers of chronic hunger, slow progress on malnutrition, environmental degradation, systemic inequality, and the dire projections of climate change, demands a transformation in global food systems. Policy change at multiple levels is critical for catalysing an...
Working paper
2019
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