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The global agenda for sustainable development includes the alleviation of poverty and hunger by developing sustainable agriculture and food systems. Intensive farming systems and its variations, such as sustainable intensification or ecological intensification, are currently being promoted as technologies that can improve agricultural productivity and reduce environmental impacts. However, these...
China - United States of America
Journal article
2021
The food system is facing enormous challenges. Inequalities, environmental degradation, scarcity, and overabundance characterize the conventional system. Alternative forms of food production and distribution are urgently needed.
The Agroecology & Food Systems specialization, part of the master's program in Environment and Natural Resources, aims to give an in-depth understanding of different approaches...
Switzerland
Learning
2021
A movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend and strengthen agroecology as the pathway towards a more just, sustainable and viable food and agriculture system.
They claim agroecology as...
Article
2015
Food sovereignty is a vision for democratic control over food and agricultural systems. The Narrative Collective of the United States Food Sovereignty Alliance compiled a series of stories that explore the concept of food sovereignty. These stories highlight food sovereignty in action, what the struggle looks like, and how it’s already...
United States of America
Case study
2021
Agroecology Fund (AEF) launched a new video, “Agroecology: Grassroots Solutions to Global Crises”, a 7-minute short film featuring grantee partners, advisors, allies, and donors from the global AEF community.
Filmmaker and photojournalist Rucha Chitnis is in conversation with Rutendo Zendah from the African Centre for Biodiversity in South Africa, Pius Ranee...
Video
2021
There is a growing attention for agroecology in debates around urban food strategies and policies. Already for several years, this is considered a promising policy area, and agroecology was even already mentioned in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact signed in 2016 as one of the relevant approaches within policies...
Event
2021
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