In Africa, farmers’ seeds are the basis of agricultural production, diverse and healthy food systems across the continent. The Farmer-managed seed system (FMSS) is the dominant system for food crops and agrobiodiversity conservation for family farmers. They persist – and thrive – despite well-funded programs promoting corporate seed and the...

Agroecology is highly promoted in research and development discourse as a holistic and effective response to climate change. The objective of this study is to contribute to the analysis of the existing evidence that agroecology enables climate change (CC) adaptation and mitigation in the agricultural systems of Latin America, a...

This podcast depicts the history of Women's Self Help Economic Groups and their role in moving an entire state into profitable agroecological farming--for health, biodiversity, and resilience. This interview with Vijay Kumar shows and answers the question of how to scale up regenerative agriculture in the context of Andhra Pradesh, a state in Southeast...

Indigenous peoples' movements are critical to scale up agroecology. As guardians of biodiversity and ancestral knowledge, Indigenous peoples' struggles in defense of their territories and rights converge with key principles of agroecology, which makes this approach not just a set of practices, but a holistic vision for thinking about food...

In 2018, the state of Himachal Pradesh in north India launched an initiative to convert all its farmers to natural farming (NF), an agroecological approach. The aim was to address multiple challenges related to rural livelihoods, high input costs, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. This paper is based on a...

This follow-up study conducted by Impaxio as mandated by Biovision presents the main results, two years after baseline, on 1) decision-makers attitudes, preferences, and actions on agroecological policies and funding, and 2) agroecology characteristics of projects funded by selected key institutions.