The recovery plan put in place during the COVID-19 health crisis favors the emergence of Territorial Food Projects as a project structuring tool, linking the actors of the different components of the ecosystem of territory: from the producer to the consumer. With this call for projects, the Léa Nature Foundation, in partnership with...

Bio Gardening Innovations, a holistic gardening project in Emuhaya, Western Kenya supports smallholder farmers to break away from monocultures and create thriving, overflowing “food forests” on their farmland using modern forestry techniques. Partnering with the Tudor Trust and Pangea, the entity sought out local farmers who had already shown some interest...

Nekram Sharma, a farmer from Karsog valley of Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, India revives along with its community an ancient indigenous farming technique. Nau-Anaj (‘nau’ means nine and ‘anaj’ is crop) is an intercropping or mixed farming method to grow nine foodgrains on the same piece of land. These crops are...

In the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India water scarcity and poor soil quality forced many farmers to walk away from agriculture. But a few years ago, the state of Andhra Pradesh launched an ambitious program called Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming (APCNF)  that is transforming the farming practices to stop...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for a new agricultural approach to ensure sufficient, safe, and nutritious food as well as a stable multifunctional landscape. Agroecology contributes to a transition to food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sustainable, economically fair, viable, and socially equitable. With the objective of moving...

Agroecology is now emerging as a science, a productive practice in the countryside and a social movement. Faced with a food system in crisis, the integration of agroecology into an eco-agri-food model is a very viable alternative for the towns and cities of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world....