The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) video shows agroecology as a way of farming in harmony with nature and how it can build resilience to climate change and disease outbreaks by establishing integrated plant and animal systems based on the knowledge of small-scale native farmers.  The video...

Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives. These examples help to deconstruct the myth that large-scale, industrial agriculture is "feeding the world", and that it is compatible...

On May 29, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayong), the premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, organized a convention with international experts with the aim of promoting agroecological agriculture in India. The experts united on the importance of producing food free of fertilizers, agrochemicals and...

FAO, with the participation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) , hosted the World Environment Day 2020 event “The Interface of Humans, Animals and the Environment” on Friday, 5 June 2020. FAO recognizes the important role of ecosystem restoration for improving resilience in a changing climate...

Different actors in agroecology including farmers, grassroots community organizations, communities organizations, non-governmental organizations, researchers and private companies have decided to come together in one framework to contribute to the reflections of the State of Senegal on the question of the agroecological transition referred to as "Dynamic for an AgroEcological Transition in Senegal"(DyTAES). DyTAES aims, in...

The research group in Ecological Economy, Agroecology and History of the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the Agroecological Centre of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (Brazil), is launching the VIII International Congress of Agroecology to be held in Vigo on July 1, 2 and 3, 2020. The central...