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...

Mobility in West African countries has long been a traditional adaptation strategy to climatic stressors. Present environmental changes stress the agricultural sector, which accounts for 35 percent of West Africa's GDP and employs over 80 percent of the workforce. Employment in agriculture is so high that decay in agricultural production...

This paper describes action research intended to transform a food system in a country that is still governed centrally by administrators who assume that industrialised agriculture, based chemical fertilizers and pesticides, is the only route to feed the country’s population and create prosperity. The authors have been encouraging action learning...

Agroecology is a way of redesigning food systems, from the farm to the table, to achieve ecological, economic, and social sustainability. Through transdisciplinary, participatory, and change-oriented research and action, agroecology links together science, practice, and movements focused on social change. But what are the steps that must be taken to...

The Skoura palm grove is located in the province of Ouarzazate, an Arab enclave in a Berber region where the population lives mainly from oasis agriculture. The project was born of a dozen family farms' desire to organize themselves to enhance the value of their olive oil production. The cooperative has...