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Inspired by the historical resistance of women in rural areas, a new guide is launched to support transformative feminist food politics. Rather than reinforcing gender roles that confine women to duties of social and reproductive labor (bearing the sole responsibility of ‘cooking’, ‘caring’ and ‘feeding’), this guide evokes the emancipatory...
Guidelines
2020
Sustainable food production through the principles of agroecology implies several simultaneous transitions at different scales, levels, and dimensions, of a social, biological, economic, cultural, institutional, political nature. To describe these transitions the use of different conceptual frameworks, derived from ecology, agronomy, and the science of innovation, are proposed.
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Journal article
2019
The Guide "Biopreparations for the sustainable management of pests and diseases in urban and peri-urban agriculture" focuses on the use of a wide range of biostimulants/rooters, bio fungicides, bioinsecticides, bio-repellents/bio-fertilizers made from low-cost and simple ingredients for farmers and their families. It includes 34 bio preparations tested in urban and...
Peru
Manual
2020
The Conference "Agroecology, an option of present and future” will be held on 16 October 2020, at 10.00 am CEST. The conference is organized by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID for its acronym in Spanish) and will discuss agroecology as a multidisciplinary and multi-actor model for sustainable...
Event
2020
The world’s agriculture and food systems are not presently delivering desirable outcomes on food security and nutrition. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted, with SDG2 committing to ‘end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture’ by 2030. The SDGs recognized, well beyond previous...
Event
2020
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