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In this briefing, we highlight the pivotal role of agricultural biodiversity – in particular, crop diversity and its interrelatedness and dependence on farmermanaged seed systems and the unfettered exercise of farmers’ rights – as integral to agroecology. In this regard, agricultural biodiversity is indispensable for a just transition in food...
Note d’orientation
2023
Global food production faces challenges in balancing the need for increased yields with environmental sustainability.This study presents a six-year field experiment in the North China Plain, demonstrating the benefits of diversifying traditional cereal monoculture (wheat–maize) with cash crops (sweet potato) and legumes (peanut and soybean).
The diversified rotations increase equivalent yield...
article de journal
2024
Considering labor allocation complexity within family farms,this study compares employment indicators between farming systems to look for agroecology’s effect on agricultural work.
Diversity in the intensity of labor requirements across the different systems was observed but no overall increase for the most agroecological. However, women working hours appear significantly increased...
Senegal
article de journal
2022
On the 23rd of November 2023, the "Sustainable Resilient Ecosystem and Agriculture Management in Mongolia" (STREAM) project, funded by the European Union, and implemented by FAO and GIZ have co-organized the “Agroecology Day” together with the School of Agroecology, of the Mongolian University of Life Sciences (MULS). The aim of...
Mongolia
Rapport
2024
Participatory certification, also known as Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), used to assess the compliance of organic or agroecological production systems, has been widely disseminated worldwide in the last ten years. This study seek to analyze, based on the case of the Red de Productores y Consumidores “Comida sana y cercana” [Network of...
Mexico
article de journal
2024
Mixed crop–livestock systems, the world's most widespread farming systems, promote farm resilience through diversification and allow for crop–livestock integration (CLI). Intensification and specialization challenge these systems.
In Northwest Vietnam, the standard farm model is based on mixed crop–livestock family farms but is shifting towards more specialized farming systems. The study aim...
Viet Nam
article de journal
2023
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