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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

The database provides a starting point to organize the existing knowledge on agroecology, collecting articles, videos, case studies, books and other important material in one place. The objective is to support policy-makers, farmers, researchers and other relevant stakeholders through knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. The database is a ‘living process’ that is constantly being updated.

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This video looks at agroforestry in the Sahel region and its benefits. It highlights several benefits of incorporating trees into crop fields, including increasing yields by 100-800% in arid regions like the Sahel. The video further focuses on a specific farm where various agroforestry practices are being implemented.
Video
2023
In the countryside of the southern African nation of Zambia, a group of farmers are reimagining agriculture for the 21st century. Founded by Canadian Jesuit Br. Paul Desmarais, the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC) aims to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers by training them in agroecology. This system of farming is both...
Zambia
Video
2024
Agriculture is crucial for many African economies. However, current agriculture and food systems face challenges due to climate change and non-climatic stresses. To address these issues, increasing resilience of food systems and ecosystems is essential, and an agroecological transition towards sustainable agri-food systems is considered a central task for the...
Learning
2024
Agroecology has evolved and is promoted as an integrated pathway for the development of food and agriculture systems in ways that address the interacting social, economic, and environmental challenges of current dominant systems. Agroecology is usually described and defined by a set of principles that can be adapted and implemented...
Article
2023
Participation is key to the successful implementation of nutrition-related interventions, but it has been relatively overlooked. This journal article sought to describe participation intensity among smallholder farmers in a randomized nutrition-sensitive agroecology study in rural Tanzania. The journal explored the association between baseline characteristics and overall participation intensity (quantitatively at the...
United Republic of Tanzania
Journal article
2023
The report ''Less, better and circular use – how to get rid of surplus nitrogen without endangering food security” by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) shows that the dependency of our food system on fossil fuel-based fertilizers has led to a devastating impact on the environment, while 85 to...
Report
2023
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