Using multi-stakeholder platforms offers a promising approach for sharing agricultural innovation, reducing transaction costs, and catalyzing development through stimulating stakeholder engagement in the innovation process to accelerate food systems transformation. Agriculture-related multi-stakeholder platforms (AMSPs) are major players to intervention strategies of agricultural development programs. However, AMSPs face multiple challenges that...

This article describes the transformative potential of agroecology as a beacon of hope for reestablishing balance in Ghana’s cocoa-forest mosaic landscapes. Agroecology — rooted in the principles of ecological harmony and sustainable agriculture — offers a way to revive and restore biodiversity, empower farmers and ensure a resilient and thriving...

The Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry(CIFOR-ICRAF) Measuring Agroecology Performance (MAP) project assessed the performance of agroecology within the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)’s ProSilience project in four African countries – Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Madagascar using the FAO Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), a four-step process that entails describing the system...

The aim of this opinion article is to present the ecosystem services potentially provided by (or related to) weeds in agroecosystems and discuss their quantification and further enhancement in an agroecological context. The keystone question is whether and how weeds could be managed and turned into “service weeds,” similar to...

To support the process of addressing the urgent needs for a just transition towards a fair, healthy and sustainable food systems, this article presents a new series of popular education materials on agroecological transitions building on the arguments of United Nations experts and rich experiences from diverse agroecological communities. Thereby outlining specific legal...

Esta edición de LEISA nos invita a abrir nuestros sentidos para apreciar la expresión de todas las formas de vida interconectadas a través de la agroecología, Agroecología, arte y cultura. Encontramos la experiencia de la región andina, que convierte el concurso “Visiones de la agroecología para el Buen Vivir” a...