Zero-budget natural farming is a form of agricultural system redesign being practiced at scale in India, particularly in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is an emerging set of agricultural practices designed  to dramatically reduce farmers’ direct costs (hence “zero-budget”) while boosting yields and farm health through the use of non-synthetic...

The UA Magazine tries to provide insight into the questions: “What is ‘urban agroecology’,exactly? Is it a type of ecological or organic agriculture in the city or if not, what else or what more?”. As we will see from the contributions in this Magazine, definitions differ and tend to reflect...

The Iranian food system faces several challenges, threatening the food security of the inhabitants and contributing to the depletion of resources: international economic sanctions leading to inflation and unprecedented price peak, scarcity of water resources and intensive and non-adapted cultural practices. Some initiatives emerge, but remain isolated. However, it is...

Sfax, second city of Tunisia, is considered as the economic pole of the country. Its economic dynamism and its open port on the Mediterranean give it a place of choice on the international market. However, it faces many problems: uncontrolled industrialization causing pollution of the soil and the sea, arid...

The food system of Fez in Morocco faces many challenges: profession of devalued farmer and difficult living conditions leading to a significant phenomenon of rural exodus, significant use of chemicals for agriculture and water pollution, development strategy of agriculture contradicting the scarcity of water resources, transformation of diets. But at...

The Ho Chi Minh City food system faces many challenges: the high use of chemicals for agriculture, the lack of means and knowledge for smallholder farmers to develop and transition towards more sustainable production systems, the vulnerability to climate change and the legacy of the war that contaminated most of...