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In order to preserve their tradition, the Manjaq communities have embarked on a process of preserving local rice varieties essential for the organization of certain traditional ceremonies. Faced with these challenges, they have rebuilt their seed capital by making an inventory of all traditional seeds and their importance in traditional...
Guinea-Bissau
Case study
2019
Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the infl ux of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is diffi cult to increase production and productivity to achieve food...
Uganda
Case study
2019
European farmers are faced with increasing challenges, including climate change. Agro-ecological practices can help them develop more sustainable and resilient farming systems that combine stable yields with enhanced biodiversity and ecosystem services. This new EIP-AGRI brochure on agroecology offers inspiration from Operational Groups and other innovative projects that create solutions...
France - Italy - Slovenia
Case study
2020
The need for an inclusive and multi-stakeholder approach to discuss digital technologies in agriculture and food has been reflected in January 2019, during the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). Approximately 74 ministers of agriculture from around the world and high-level representatives of international organizations committed to use the potential of digitalization to...
Policy brief/paper
2019
The purpose of this paper is to provide a socio-ecological counter account of the role that agroecology plays in supporting the sustainable livelihoods of a co-operative of smallholder coffee farmers, where very little value is created at their end of the coffee commodity chain. Agroecology may be defined as the...
India
Journal article
2017
This publication highlights the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s collective and individual member efforts to support agroecology as a core solution to the future of food by working together and with others to enhance agroecological science, practice, and movements.
The publication showcases the work on agroecology of the following...
Book
2018
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