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This report advocates for a shift in African agricultural practices, focusing on legume-centered agroecological strategies. It highlights the problems associated with industrialized agriculture's heavy reliance on inorganic fertilizers, which exacerbates food insecurity and environmental degradation.
The mid-20th-century Green Revolution, emphasizing monoculture cereal crops and non-renewable inputs, has fallen short of expectations. High...
documento normativo
2023
Agroscope researchers tested the FAO method for assessing the agroecological status of farms in Switzerland for the first time, demonstrating the advantages of a holistic evaluation as well as the limits of the tool.
Using a participatory approach, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has together with...
Switzerland
documento normativo
2023
18/10/2023 -
FAO is engaging with Member states of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO) as they look to design a regional model law on Agroecology. FAO already has a basis for this work, as a legal study it conducted with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) within the Scaling...
Artículo
2023
The World Food Day, the Agroecology TPP together with WorldFish, IWMI, CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology and CIFOR-ICRAF, are launching an electronic consultation to gather feedback on a number of proposed changes to the 13 HLPE principles of agroecology – with the aim to make the references to water, aquatic foods,...
Artículo
2023
3rd Webinar - Organic Matter Management Webinar Series
Options to contribute to sustainable production systems and the SDGs
7 September 2023 | 14:30-16:00 (CEST)
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The consensus on the urgent need for a global transition to agrifood systems that ensure food and nutrition security for all, while reversing environmental degradation and adapting to...
Evento
2023
Agriculture in Africa is arguably the most important sector, given its contribution to food security, as well as its being the continent’s principal source of income and livelihoods as well as the main source of employment for more than half of Africa’s population – the majority of them being women.
The aim of this work...
Evento
2023
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