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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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What agroecology brings to food security and ecosystem services: a review of scientific evidence

There is a strong theoretical basis and empirical evidence that food security outcomes (availability, access, utilisation, stability) are as good or sometimes even better for agroecological systems than conventional alternatives. This knowledge brief aims to provide a set of evidence, based on a large-scale analysis of scientific articles (including a literature...
Working paper
2024

Cultivating diversity for a just agroecological transition of Africa’s food systems: The inextricable link between agricultural biodiversity, agroecology, climate change and biodiversity

In this briefing, we highlight the pivotal role of agricultural biodiversity – in particular, crop diversity and its interrelatedness and dependence on farmermanaged seed systems and the unfettered exercise of farmers’ rights – as integral to agroecology. In this regard, agricultural biodiversity is indispensable for a just transition in food...
Policy brief/paper
2023

Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health

Global food production faces challenges in balancing the need for increased yields with environmental sustainability.This study presents a six-year field experiment in the North China Plain, demonstrating the benefits of diversifying traditional cereal monoculture (wheat–maize) with cash crops (sweet potato) and legumes (peanut and soybean). The diversified rotations increase equivalent yield...
Journal article
2024

What contribution of agroecology to job creation in sub-Saharan Africa? The case of horticulture in the Niayes, Senegal

Considering labor allocation complexity within family farms,this study compares employment indicators between farming systems to look for agroecology’s effect on agricultural work. Diversity in the intensity of labor requirements across the different systems was observed but no overall increase for the most agroecological. However, women working hours appear significantly increased...
Senegal
Journal article
2022

FAO Mongolia cooperation with the Mongolia University of Life Sciences to advance agroecology

On the 23rd of November 2023, the "Sustainable Resilient Ecosystem and Agriculture Management in Mongolia" (STREAM) project, funded by the European Union, and implemented by FAO and GIZ have co-organized the “Agroecology Day” together with the School of Agroecology, of the Mongolian University of Life Sciences (MULS). The aim of...
Mongolia
Report
2024

Contributions of participatory certification to the territorialization of agroecology

Participatory certification, also known as Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), used to assess the compliance of organic or agroecological production systems, has been widely disseminated worldwide in the last ten years. This study seek to analyze, based on the case of the Red de Productores y Consumidores “Comida sana y cercana” [Network of...
Mexico
Journal article
2024
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