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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
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) is one of the world’s leading institutes in the field of organic agriculture. FiBL’s strengths lie in its interdisciplinary research, thanks to its innovations developed jointly with farmers and the food industry as well as in its solution-oriented development projects and rapid knowledge transfer...
Book
2020
Agroecology potentially offers a sustainable path to agricultural development as it integrates ecological principles and social and economic concerns into agri-food systems. While many descriptive studies have documented the experience of farming communities using agroecological approaches, evidence on social and economic indicators of agroecology is poorly documented in a quantitative...
Journal article
2017
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