CELIA and Conciencia Verde organize an online course on Agroecology and the reconstruction of post-COVID-19 agriculture from 8 to 12 June 2020. This course will be held in Spanish and will cover the following topics: Day 1: The crisis of industrial agriculture including the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture and nutrition by Miguel Altieri; Day 2:...

The new Biodiversity Strategy tackles the key drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable use of land and sea, overexploitation of natural resources, pollution, and invasive alien species. It also aims to make biodiversity considerations an integral part of EU's overall economic growth strategy. The actions foreseen in nature protection, sustainable use...

The Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F) will enable the transition to a sustainable European Union (EU) food system that safeguards food security and ensures access to healthy diets sourced from a healthy planet. The F2F strategy is special as it is the first time for the EU food policy to have a...

The 3rd Observance of World Bee Day was focused on bee production and good practices adopted by beekeepers all over the world to support their livelihoods and deliver high-quality products.  It will highlight the importance of traditional knowledge related to beekeeping, the use of bee-derived products and services, and their...

Trees have traditionally been an integrated part of European farmlands and bringing them back could be part of an answer to some of our pressing environmental challenges. Asger Mindegaard and Celia Nyssens walk the readers through the forest of opportunities for more agroecological farming provided by agroforestry in Portugal. Herdade do...

This Shared Action Framework developed by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food is a result of the publication ''The Future of Food: Seeds of Resilience, A Compendium of Perspectives on Agricultural Biodiversity from Around the World'' and of a strategic convening on resilient seed systems that was held in Oaxaca, Mexico.  From these...