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Part one of the series on "Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet" of Soil Food Web School explores some of the many benefits that regenerating soils can have on the rest of the planet and on humans in a dialogue between Dan Kittredge, Dr. Stephan Van Vliet, Didi Pershouse, Dr. Elaine...
Event
2022
Nixtamalization was invented by Mesoamerican indigenous peoples. This technique is responsible for increasing the nutritional value of corn by transforming it into a dough. The products made from this dough become excellent sources of calcium, a mineral that the body needs to form and maintain strong bones.
This video shows the...
Mexico
Video
2022
A redesign of food systems is urgently needed to simultaneously achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability. Agroecology is gaining prominence as an approach to achieving this radical shift. Evidence demonstrates how agroecological approaches can contribute to sustainable, resilient agricultural and food systems today and in the future.
However, despite many locally...
Project
2021
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is just the latest in a series of overlapping food crises. It is our brittle, concentrated globalized food system that has created this vulnerable situation, and it must be addressed.
The immediate food crisis sparked by the war is a lack of supplies and rising hunger...
Article
2022
In light of the dire food security situation and high food prices, after two years of COVID-19 pandemic and the consequences of the Russian-Ukraine confict, the European Commission is today stepping up its support for the transformation of food systems by actively engaging in eight global Coalitions for Action.
These will...
Article
2022
On 27 October at 12:00-14:00 UTC (14:00-16.00 CEST), the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology (TPP) hosted an online event on ‘’Research on Agroecology: Current strengths and innovative futures for sustainable food systems’’.
The topic of agroecological transformation of agri-food systems and its link to the Sustainable Development Goals was one of the most prevalent...
Event
2021
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