This paper is an appeal to policymakers to recognize a new narrative for agriculture in Africa, which redirects efforts from a high input industrial strategy to supporting food and agricultural systems and practices that are healthy, equitable, efficient, resilient, and culturally diverse, using renewable energy resources.

This document elaborates the outcomes of the Addis Ababa Conference on “Changing Food Systems in Africa: Agroecology and Food Sovereignty and their Role in Nutrition and Health”. The three-day conference brought together representatives of civil society organizations, farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, consumers, youth networks, women’s networks, food processors, practitioners,...

In this edition of LEISA 29-1, experiences of application of the System of Intensive Rice Cultivation (SICA), an innovative technology successfully adopted in different countries around the world where this important cereal is grown, are presented.

This edition of LEISA points out that the current land grabbing ignores the rights of peasants, small producers and indigenous peoples, who have no say in decisions that affect their livelihoods and culture, and are displaced from their lands and territories. This is why the affected populations need to organise...

A personal explanation of the successes and challenges related to farmer field school activities in Mozambique and Burkina Faso by Pablo Tittonell.

During the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and United Nations launched a Global Partnership Initiative on conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The goal of the initiative is: to identify and safeguard GIAHS...