Phosphorus, an essential nutrient crucial for all living organisms, including humans, also plays a pivotal role in agriculture production. However, excessive levels of phosphorus have a significant impact on species and ecosystems with cascading effects on soil quality and biodiversity and consequently ecosystem services and crop production.   The webinar “Management...

Organizations of smallholder farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and Local Communities (IPs and LCs) maintain most of the world’s remaining agrobiodiversity. They do so by designing and adopting strategies and tactics that foster diversity through traditional diets and knowledge that underpins seed conservation, agroecological farming approaches, and enterprises targeting multiple markets. While...

The international Symposium “Agriculture, Biodiversity and Food Security: From Commitments to Actions,” will be held at the Quebec City Convention Centre from April 30 to May 2, 2024. The event is co-organised by Université Laval's Graduate School of International Studies (ESEI), the Quebec government's ministère des Relations internationales et de la...

  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently declared that the world has entered the era of “global boiling”1. Our daily news underscores this alarming picture with record-breaking meteorological disasters. Climate change has become impossible to ignore. And so has the fact that its effects are unequally distributed across systems, regions, and sectors,...

Food systems transformation in the Asia-Pacific depends on disseminating and mainstreaming new approaches that foster sustainable agriculture. One such approach is agroecology. In the Asia-Pacific region, several agroecological practices – mainly aimed at enhancing soil fertility, increasing resilience to climate change and other external shocks, promoting biodiversity, biocontroling pests and diseases,...

is a free online course developed by Agroecology Fund + Statistics for Sustainable Development  The course aims to provide a clear process of how to build an evidence-based case for efficacy and the importance of #agroecology to support grassroots organizations' efforts. This self-paced course is structured into five modules and uses case examples from the...