Humanity faces interlinked social, environmental and economic challenges of a magnitude not experienced before, and which are now compounded by the socio-economic challenges brought by COVID-19. A degraded natural resource base and fragmented social webs are being further tested through the impact of climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Transition...

The Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) and Southern Africa Trust (SAT) in partnership with Climate Justice - Just Transition Donors Collaborative are hosting on 26 November 2021 the webinar ''How can agroecology deliver climate justice in Africa? A farmer’s perspective''. Despite landmark programs such as the Comprehensive African...

Agroecology Newsletter of November 2021

On 30 August 2021, Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajpaksa declared an economic emergency. The decision was taken to curb hoarding of essential items and to control inflation since the country is faced with a shortage of food items and a steep rise in prices of essential commodities. In April, President Rajapaksa...

Maria Tekülve, the Deputy Head of Division and Focal Point for Rural Development and Agroecology at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) reflects on the role of agroecological approaches in international cooperation in an interview with Silvia Richter for the International Journal for Rural Development. The material reflects Maria Tekülve's...

Food systems are intimately linked to people's lives – through the food they eat, the nutrition and health, the livelihoods, jobs and to the environment and natural resources of the planet. Finding sustainable solutions to various food systems problems depends on improved knowledge and evidence, and a greater understanding of the...