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Women are especially threatened by climate change and biodiversity destruction. Yet, their in-depth and intimate knowledge makes them uniquely engaged to protect and restore critical ecosystems, strengthen traditional food systems, conserve species, and transmit indigenous expertise to future generations. Women grow healthy food, use and preserve medicinal plants, select and...
Event
2021
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is currently facilitating a campaign on mainstreaming agroecology in climate policies in 12 African countries and at the Africa regional level. The campaign includes mobilizing local actors, engaging the government, and reaching out to the general public through various media networks.
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Ghana - Kenya - Nigeria - Togo
Event
2021
The Malaysian Agroecology Society for Sustainable Resource Intensification (SRI-Mas), the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and the Malaysian Food Security and Sovereignty Forum (FKMM) will hold on 26 March 2021 the webinar ''Building Back Greener & More Resilient: Contributions of Agroecology to a “New Normal” in Asia'' as part of of the...
Event
2021
European agriculture and food systems are strongly impacted by many challenges such as soil erosion and degradation, water quality, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity, access to land and other productive resources, farmers' indebtedness, loss of farms, and climate change. Agroecology, as a way to design, develop, and promote the transition...
Project
2021
Innovative grass-based beef production systems based on agroecological principles of environmental, economic, and social sustainability can help address the challenges faced by the European beef sector and citizens' concerns about the sustainability of the current beef production and consumption levels. When managed correctly, grass-based beef production systems improve biodiversity, capture...
Report
2021
This contribution draws on original data relating to a land settlement case in Araponga, an administrative area in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The settlement of the land and subsequent building of robust, more self-dependent, land-based livelihoods have followed a joint experimentation trajectory in which the agro-ecologicalisation of agrarian production practices to...
Brazil
Journal article
2018
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