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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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Real Farming Trust: An introduction to Enlightened Agriculture

This film introduces the concept of Enlightened Agriculture - a way of producing food that is designed to provide good food for everyone, everywhere, without cruelty or injustice and without wrecking the biosphere. It showcases some of the farmers and growers who are putting Enlightened Agriculture into practice and the...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Video
2017

Importance of flowers and biodiversity in market gardens

Azucena Cabrera, responsible for the Rancho Ecológico Vía Orgánica introduces in this video the functions of flowers in the context of health and biodiversity preervation in our market gardens.
Mexico
Video
2016

Agricultural disease and insect-pest control via agroecological landscape construction

Chemical pesticides for controlling plant diseases and insect pests in farmlands cause a series of serious problems including residue effects, environmental pollution, etc. Bio-pesticides and bio-controls are, on the other hand, slowly effective, high cost, and, always with certain targets. Integrated, high-efficient and environmentally friendly disease and insect-pest control measures...
China
Journal article
2012

Ecoagricultural landscape for biodiversity conservation and ecological service maintenance

Loss of biodiversity and associated ecological services in agricultural landscape caused by intensive agricultural production have greatly threatened sustainable agricultural development. Landscape management, together with less intensive practices such as organic agricultural production, should be carefully considered when developing strategies for biodiversity and ecological service restorations as landscape structures have...
China
Journal article
2012

Mechanical stimulation of duck on rice phyto-morphology in rice-duck farming system

Integrated rice-duck farming system, developed from “raising ducks in paddy fields”, is one of China’s traditional agriculture practices and is encouraged for safe production of rice in China, Japan and other countries in Southeast Asia. To study the effects of ducks on the growth characteristics of rice, a mechanical stimulation...
China
Journal article
2012

Standards of payments for paddy ecosystem services: using Hani Terrace as case study

Agricultural land provides not only food and fiber (important elements of food security), but also serves as non-market commodity with characteristic externalities and public services. Payments for paddy ecosystem services promote farmers’ engagement in ecological or organic agricultural practices and agro-ecological/environmental supply. Standard of payments for ecosystem services is one...
China
Journal article
2012
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