In recent years, more attention has been paid to local knowledge for its important contribution to the design of strategies for sustainable management of natural resources. The importance of soil as a key component os sustainability in agricultural landscapes has led to an increasing demand for indicators that would allow...

La cooperación con las organizaciones no gubernamentales y con otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) fue un tema en el que insistieron los gobiernos de los Estados Miembros en el Plan de Acción de la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Alimentación y que figura también en el Marco Estratégico para...

This global map is a tool to link consumers, buyers and traders, who are looking for organically produced food, with growers and processors that have chosen Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) as a way to certify their products. Through this map: Consumers, buyers, retailers, traders and restaurants can find organic food producers certified through...

Family farms, which constitute the main segment of agricultural and food systems, are key players in the management of this unprecedented health crisis provoked by COVID-19. Farmers organizations (FO) and civil society organizations (CSO) networks are essential for sustainable ways out of the crises: to set up and implement economic,...

During the Coronavirus crisis, it has become clear how fragile and vulnerable agro-industrial supply chains can be. However, a movement known as "Community Supported Agriculture" (CSA) is at its peak, a model of local marketing providing healthy and nutritious products from the field to the kitchen. Members buy a share...

From the 15 to the 17 July 2020, the Bio-district della Via Amerina e delle Forre, in the Italian province of Viterbo, hosted the launch of the piloting process for the European and Central Asian context of the The Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE). Through a partnership with Schola...