Agriculture and food systems are facing wide-ranging and interlinked challenges that demand urgent actions. The 10 Elements of Agroecology have been internationally endorsed as a framework to support research and development efforts in the design of differentiated paths for agriculture and food systems transformation. The 10 Elements are interlinked and...

The global impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever clearer, and natural resources and ecosystems are being depleted. Despite some progress, hunger and poverty persist, and inequalities are deepening. The world is realizing that unsustainable high external inputs and resource-intensive industrialized systems pose a real danger of biodiversity loss,...

FAO and the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) are pleased to announce the webinar "Fertigation – a tool to simultaneously improve water and nutrient use efficiency", as part of the new series focused on sustainable plant nutrition.Following a successful first event on microbials, this new webinar will focus on fertigation, a...

Today's challenges require systemic responses that reconcile the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Agroecology can give that opportunity to generate a necessary and urgent conversation about transforming food systems towards sustainability. This article documents how municipalities throughout Argentina are committed to the proposal of promoting agroecology, generating markets, fairs, knowledge exchange meetings, and...

The purpose of this booklet is to create broader awareness, promote deeper understanding and enhance capacities (through training) of rural people's movements on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). As popular education context-based toolkit, this booklet can empower peasants to improve...

Modality: Self-learning | From 15-12-21 to 31-12-22 This course provides a guide on how to evaluate agroecology using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation  (TAPE) which enables a multidimensional diagnosis to be made in a variety of contexts. It explains how the analytical framework proposed by FAO was developed, what are its underlying principles, and what are its methodological components...