In Latin America, numerous farmers' movements, civil society organizations, and scientists involved with the public sector have formed the agroecological movement as a response to the agricultural and food crisis that has been fundamentally shifting from the implementation and expansion of intensive agriculture. Through this movement, they aim to redefine...

The Senate in the Philippines has approved a bill recognizing Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) and amending the current legal framework for organic agriculture in the country. PGS are locally focused quality assurance systems of organic products certification which small farmers can afford, and which provides access to healthy and safe...

The Research and training center for organic and ecological agriculture (SAHEL VERT), is offering an innovative online training course on Organic and ecological agriculture.

This activity is part of the South-South cooperation project called “Sembrando Capacidades”, whose objective is to improve differentiated public policies for peasant, family and community agriculture in Colombia, through the exchange of experiences with Brazil, in cooperation with FAO, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia, the Ministry...

The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment where existing calls for agroecology acquire new relevance. Agroecology provides a path to reconstruct post-COVID-19 agriculture, one that can avoid widespread disruptions of food supplies in the future by territorializing food production and consumption. There are five main areas in which agroecology can...

Over the past three decades, agroecology has gained much attention as the basis for the transition from conventional agriculture and external-market oriented production to ecological, localized agriculture that not only provides rural families with significant social, economic, and environmental benefits but also sustainably and more equitably feed urban populations. Agroecology has...