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The short film “What is Agroecology” won the Global Youth Video Contest on Climate Change - TVEBioMovies 2019, co-organized by the GEF-UNDP Small Grants Programme, and the secretariats of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and the Convention on Biological Diversity. The film...
Brazil
Video
2019
This course is a joint effort of FAO and the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) and aims to be a contribution to stimulate the exchange and dissemination of good practices of agroecology in the context of territorial development, sustainability, and resilience, governance, and empowerment of communities and people.
The course...
Learning
2021
The initiative is situated in Gamo Zone, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region.
The Shella Mella cooperative established in 2013. The cooperative supports its 200 members in shifting from a conventional to organic production, with on-going support from the Pesticide Action Network (PAN). The cooperative supports its members in...
Ethiopia
Innovation
2021
The rural Sidama are mostly subsistence agropastoralists. Increasing climate change impacts have stimulated the farmers to adapt their farming practices to survive and thrive in this semi-arid environment.
One of the pioneers of the community is Arbe, who grows maize, sugar cane, beans, enset, peppers, guavas, and banana on her 0,5...
Ethiopia
Innovation
2021
The initiative is situated some 15km from the town of Guder in the Tuki Kuti District of the West Showa zone of Oromia Regional State.
The mission of the farmers participating in this initiative is to improve the health and fertility of their farms by using organic methods and products (such...
Ethiopia
Innovation
2021
There are urgent calls for the transformation of agriculture and food systems to address human and planetary health issues. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and agroecology promise interconnected solutions to these challenges, but evidence of their impact has been limited.
This report examined whether a nutrition-sensitive agroecology intervention in rural Tanzania could improve children's dietary...
United Republic of Tanzania
Journal article
2021
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