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In 2010, the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) was established to undertake applied research and education on agroecology as the underlying paradigm of sustainable agriculture. This approach is required not only to ensure that all the peoples of the world are fed, but also for humanity to avoid...
Policy brief/paper
2013
In a context of a changing climate and growing concerns for more healthy food systems, agroecology is gaining momentum as a scientific discipline, sustainable farming approach and social movement. There is growing anecdotal and case study evidence of its multiple benefits, from climate resilience to farm productivity. Yet its promotion...
Policy brief/paper
2014
Las últimas crisis internacionales –cuyos ejes principales e interrelacionados fueron el cambio climático, la producción de alimentos, la escasez de fuentes de energía y la explosión de la burbuja inmobiliaria en Estados Unidos–, han obligado a redirigir la mirada hacia los elementos más básicos de la producción y la reproducción...
Paraguay
Book
2012
The agroecological innovations reported here can be grouped under the broad heading of System of Crop Intensi cation (SCI).1 This approach seeks not just to get more output from a given amount of inputs, a long-standing and universal goal, but aims to achieve higher output with less use of or...
Book
2014
The agroecological innovations reported here can be grouped under the broad heading of System of Crop Intensi cation (SCI).1 This approach seeks not just to get more output from a given amount of inputs, a long-standing and universal goal, but aims to achieve higher output with less use of or...
Book
2014
Applying a resilience lens to food system analysis and programming requires that we pay particular attention to understanding the ways shocks, stressors and even program interventions that impact one part of the food system can have additional impacts or unintended consequences on other system components, and potentially, the entire system....
Manual
2014
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