The Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention aims to continue during November, reinforcing its parties' technical capacities through a series of virtual training on pesticide risk assessment, severely hazardous pesticide formulations (SHPF), and the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) circular.  To register for the webinars, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]

A revolution paradigm was needed to establish the required knowledge systems to attain food sovereignty and agroecology. This concept entails the construction of technical and policy-related knowledge that is actively shaped by food producers and consumers, rather than through top-down research and the hegemony of scientism, the privatization of research,...

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. Many food system activities must be reconstructed to transition towards sustainability, and myriad actors worldwide are starting to act locally. While some changes are more comfortable than others, knowing how to navigate them...

This edition of LEISA presents articles on responses to climate change, addressing the importance of integrated management of significant ecosystems, and the need to conserve the biodiversity of agroecosystems, and how these proposals are compatible with the economic growth of farming families. Today, the current situation prevailing in most countries,...

The fourth live of the series “Revisiting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at Embrapa"  will discuss Food security and nutrition, food sovereignty and the connection with the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among the speakers of the event moderated by Tatiana Sá, a researcher at Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, will include Dalva...

Inspired by the historical resistance of women in rural areas, a new guide is launched to support transformative feminist food politics. Rather than reinforcing gender roles that confine women to duties of social and reproductive labor (bearing the sole responsibility of ‘cooking’, ‘caring’ and ‘feeding’), this guide evokes the emancipatory...