This study, in collaboration with the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), provides an overview of the current state of sustainable agriculture practices and systems (SAPSs) in India. It aims to help policymakers, administrators, philanthropists, and others contribute to an evidence-based scale-up of SAPSs, which represent a vital alternative to...

The Municipality of Rosario, Argentina, is growing an agroecology program for a healthier, more resilient city. Rosario's urban agriculture program has sparked citywide remediation of vacant land for sustainable and healthy food production and increased climate resilience. Rosario is the 2020-2021 Grand prize winner of the World Resource Institute Ross Center...

Profound changes in the way food are grown, processed, distributed, consumed, and wasted over the past few decades are creating increasing threats to the future of food security. When these changes are combined with the realities of climate change, species extinction, increasing globalization, and the pressures of advancing industrial agriculture in industrial...

Food insecurity is deeply intertwined with health and economic disparities, as an underlying factor in risk for COVID-19 and as an effect of the economic crisis the pandemic has triggered. Pre-existing health inequities and an increased risk of job loss or loss of income mean that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous...

Capital Growth, a food growing network, presents people with the opportunity to grow food as part of a healthy, resilient food system. During the pandemic in 2019/2020, Capital Growth worked with over 50 gardens to grow food for the local community through their Community Harvest Initiative. This video tells their stories...

From a science perspective, agroecology applies ecological concepts and principles to manage interactions between plants, animals, humans, and the environment. It aims at securing food security and nutrition for all and at all times. Agroecology relies on traditional knowledge enriched by scientific research and innovation. It is a complex concept...