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The Italian Network for Local Food Policies is being promoted by a group of academic, scientific and independent researchers, from different Italian cities engaged in multiple ways in research activities related to "local food policies".The Network proposes to focus research efforts towards the transformation of the food system and the...
Italy
Event
2020
In April 2018, FAO hosted the Second International Symposium on Agroecology to Achieve the SDGs; the Symposium had an impressive level of attendance with a total of 768 participants.
With the main objective of moving from dialogue to action, the Symposium brought together different stakeholders and catalyzed inter-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration,...
Conference proceedings
2019
The chinampas (raised beds) of Xochimilco, Mexico City, are highly productive, traditional wetland agricultural systems, which were able to feed most of the population in pre-hispanic times. There is a strong trend to substitute chinampas with plastic greenhouses for flower production, which creates negative impacts in the landscape, environment and...
Mexico
Journal article
2012
Durante mucho tiempo la producción de ganado en el trópico seco se ha centrado en el desmonte del bosque (también llamado “monte”) y la siembra de pastos mejorados. Sin embargo, el bosque tropical seco alberga numerosas especies de árboles y arbustos con potencial forrajero. Cada vez son más reconocidos los...
Mexico
Guidelines
2018
En los Andes, la agroecología se promueve a través de proyectos de desarrollo rural que comúnmente trabajan con agrobiodiversidad, poblaciones tradicionales y la promoción de cadenas de valor. Los estudios comparativos con encuestas de hogares son herramientas útiles para entender la situación en hogares agroecológicos y no agroecológicos, o participantes...
Belgium - Peru
Project
2019
Agroecology is our best option for creating a food and farming system capable of nurturing people, societies, and the planet. But it is still not widespread as it should be. Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up, a new book edited by our Executive Director Steve Brescia and published by Food...
Book
2017
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