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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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In this publication, we share the results of this process. We begin with an introduction to the context of the region and the principles that guide us. We then present the methodological practices we used to build rural women’s autonomy and agroecology.
Brazil
Book
2018
‘Sustainable intensification’ is now often used to describe the future direction for agriculture and food production as a way to address the challenges of increasing global population, food security, climate change and resource conservation. There is a growing consensus that sustainable intensification should not only avoid further environmental damage, but...
Report
2015
Agri-environmental measures are considered the main tool available to stop the loss of biodiversity associated with the intensification of agriculture. However, the question of whether or not they constitute an adequate tool to achieve this objective continues to be the subject of scientific debate. The evaluations carried out so far...
Spain
Journal article
2013
The work analyzes the importance of plant diversity in agroecosystems and the effects of the intensification of agricultural and landscape practices on plant diversity. The review of several studies carried out by the research team highlights that agricultural intensification, both at the field and landscape levels, negatively affects the abundance...
Spain
Journal article
2013
The development of breeding strategies that link biodiversity and crop production and regulation services is compulsory when it comes to promoting a low-input agriculture (which includes organic farming). In low-input agricultural systems, yield production should rely on the tools provided by the diversity within and between crops, using local resources...
Spain
Journal article
2013
We used coffee farming households as units of analysis to synthetize agrobiodiversity data in agricultural plots managed by coffee cooperative members of Nicaragua and El Salvador. Surveys, focus groups and plant inventories were used to analyze agrobiodiversity and its contribution to household livelihoods. Coffee farming families managed high levels of...
Nicaragua
Journal article
2013
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