Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (officially abbreviated as APCNF), which was launched in 2016 in Andhra Pradesh, India is a paradigm shift in agricultural development. For the first time in the country, a state government has acknowledged and admitted the pitfalls of seed-water-fertilizer models promoted by the Green Revolution...

It has been since 1998 that Valdibella Cooperative is working in Camporeale, Italy to create and spread alternatives to the food system in Sicily. With more than 30 members, Valdibella Cooperative aims at restoring dignity to farmers by promoting concrete actions against commercial and labour exploitation and by applying organic...

10 September, Panama City FAO in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and within the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative, presented the publication "Legislation to promote agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean" to the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO).  The objective...

FAO published, in collaboration with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and within the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative, ''Legislation to promote agroecology in the Latin American and Caribbean region'' which addresses the international and regional legal framework, as well as some good practices from comparative law, in...

Below are some of the most salient outcomes of the regional Symposium, which itself was a follow up to the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in Rome, held in September 2014. Leading up to this regional Symposium, the Malian National Coordination of Smallholder Organisations (CNOP) and...

The course ''Agroecology: transition towards sustainable food systems'' is a joint effort of FAO and the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA). The course stimulates the exchange and promotion of agroecological principles and approaches in the context of territorial development, sustainability and resilience, governance and empowerment of communities and...