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Dr. M Jahi Chappell at the World Food Prize: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Video
2013
Background
In September 2014 the International symposium on agroecology for food security and nutrition was held in FAO HQ, Rome (www.fao.org/3/a-i4327e.pdf). This has been followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Latin America (www.fao.org/3/a-i5143e.pdf), sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and the Pacific (www.fao.org/3/a-i5672e.pdf). In order to continue to develop this regional approach,...
Event
2016
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
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