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En un escenario de cambio climático y con una previsión de crecimiento demográfico mundial de hasta 9 000 millones de personas para 2050, el objetivo de producir alimentos nutritivos de forma sostenible se vuelve más difícil. La agroecología constituye una vía para alcanzar dicho objetivo. En particular, la agricultura familiar...
Conference report
2016
South-eastern Transylvania is one of Europe’s most important natural and cultural landscapes, supporting many rare habitats and fauna and flora species including some of the most significant areas of wildflower-rich grasslands in Europe. This high nature value farmed landscape is the result of good husbandry over hundreds of years, and...
Romania
Fact sheet
2015
In agroecology, farmers continuously build situation-specific knowledge that allows them to develop under unpredictable and changing circumstances. There are no fixed prescriptions in agroecology about how to produce, process, market or store food, feed, medicine and fibre. Rather, different practices work in different ways depending on each specific context and ecosystem....
India - Mexico - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Rwanda
Article
2016
The co-creation of knowledge about agricultural biodiversity is an essential part of peasant strategies for survival and autonomy. Facing the threats of the industrial model of production and consumption, peasants and social movements are defending agroecology and their dynamic management of agricultural biodiversity. Together with others, they are building collective...
Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Palestine
Article
2016
A collection of short examples of initiatives/projects related to new entrants into farming (mostly small scale)
Belgium - Bulgaria - Czechia - European Union - Finland - France - Germany - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Slovakia - Spain - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Report
2016
Various agro-ecological practices have existed in the region, primarily as an alternative to conventional chemical-intensive farming based on Green Revolution prescriptions. These alternatives are often directed at enhancing soil fertility, through organic matter management and water conservation. Throughout Asia and the Pacific, different terms are used for specific practices including:...
India
Article
2016
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