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19 April 2022
Since its launch in 2018, the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative seeks to mobilize dialogue, cooperation and investment within and beyond the United Nations (UN) system, to bring agroecology to scale and achieve multiple sustainable development goals through sustainable agriculture and food systems. Different UN Agencies are progressively supporting...
India - Mexico - Senegal
Event
2022
This course will explore what agroecology is, what the different approaches are and how they translate into agricultural practices. In a participatory training dynamic, based on the social and geographical diversity of the actors, the MOOC proposes to build an approach to agroecology from the perspective of agronomic sciences, ecology...
Argentina
Learning
2022
In 2021, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) joined the Collective Action on Forgotten Food led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR), Alliance of Bioversity International, and CIAT, Crops for the Future Research Centre. According to GFAR (2021), "forgotten foods are derived from a...
Conference proceedings
2022
Alain Karsenty, an environmental economist, has been a Senior Scientist at CIRAD (Montpellier, France) since 1992. His research and expertise area are focused on economic instruments for the environment. He has extensive knowledge of land tenure, concessions, forest policies, and practices in West & Central Africa and Madagascar, his main...
Video
2021
Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for various policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward policy goals. This study draws on a policy mix approach to analyze adaptation efforts at the...
Brazil
Case study
2021
This publication provides an overview of the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems in terms of natural resource management, access to the market, diet diversity, indigenous peoples’ governance systems, and links to traditional knowledge and indigenous languages. While enhancing the learning on Indigenous Peoples' food systems,...
Book
2021
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