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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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This paper briefly discusses the progress and challenges brought by the integration of agroecological approaches into Brazilian institutions. It covers the struggles of rural social movements that work on the ‘agroecological fields’ of the country. The processes leading to the creation of the National Agroecology Articulation (ANA) and the Brazilian...
Brazil
Journal article
2013
Facing the recurrent global food crisis, the food’s corporative regime institutions propose a new Green Revolution alongside the continuation of neoliberal economic policies. As those policies are precisely the origin and cause of the aforementioned crisis, this approach can only worsen global hunger. Building a counter-movement depends upon strategic alliances...
United States of America
Journal article
2013
Traditional knowledge of farmers is vast and permanently evolving, as they keep learning from daily experiences and mutual exchange with other farmers. Ecological modern science is (or should be) the scientific basis for agroecology and should work in synergy with the constant accumulation of knowledge of small-scale producers. Traditional agricultural...
Mexico
Journal article
2013
"Now we live well," say both Givaldo and Nina dos Santos, after showing visiting farmers their 1.25-hectare farm in Brazil's semi-arid Northeast, which is small but has a great variety of fruit trees, thanks to innovative water and production techniques.
Brazil
Article
2018
Maize is the predominant crop in Zambia, both in terms of production and consumption, and levels of crop diversity on Zambian farms tend to be very low. The country’s maize-centric food system contributes to poverty, malnutrition, and vulnerability to drought, pests and diseases. Growing a wider variety of nutritious crops...
Zambia
Innovation
2018
This document represents an attempt by the Chair to capture the richness of the contributions presented during the Symposium by different stakeholders and experts, to be more fully registered in the full report of the Symposium to be prepared by FAO, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views...
Conference report
2018
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