The FAO Technical Network on Sustainable Crop Production and Agroecology, SP2 and SP4 organize on Tuesday 1 of October from 14:30-16:00 (CEST)  a seminar on ''Promoting sustinable urban and periurban agriculture: an example of agroecological practices in Rosario (Argentina)''.The Seminar will take place in FAO Headquarters, Malasya Room (B227) and it will be conducted in English...

The First Chilean Congress of Agroecology, organized by the University of La Frontera and the Chilean chapter of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA-Chile), will be held at the Pucón Campus of the University of La Frontera during the 17 and 18 of October 2019. Under the slogan...

The Venezuelan Association of Agroecology (AVA) is a broad group, made up of social organizations, farmers, academics, and other associated actors interested in contributing to the transformation of food systems, towards food sovereignty from an agroecological perspective. The Congress will take place in Caracas during the 17 and 19 of October. In its third...

IFAD's Environment, Climate, Gender and Social Inclusion Division (ECG) and Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division (PMI) organize this webinar that will take place the 3 of October 2019 from 11:00 to 12:30 CET. Mixed cropping, using ‘weed’ crops to attract predators and cultivating resilient local breeds - these are all...

  More than 150 participants representing relevant Government Departments from MoALI and MoNREC, YAU, State Agriculture Institutes, International organizations/INGOs/NGOs, UN Agencies and Donors participated in the national workshop on “Green Ecology in Myanmar”, co-organized by FAO and NCSAC/YAU on 29th Aug 2019 at YAU.  The workshop was celebrate under the framework of a...

In Nicaragua, as in other Latin American countries, agroecological practices have been present among the peasantry since centuries. However, it is from 2007 that the concepts of agroecology and organic agriculture begin to be institutionalized with the promulgation of the Mandatory Technical Standard Nicaraguan (NTON 11 010-07): Characterization, Regulation and...