This briefing calls on governments to mobilise finance for the large-scale transitions needed towards climate-friendly food and farming. This will involve switching funding and subsidy support from globalised, fossil-fuel intensive, long-distance linear supply chains to re-localised agri-food systems; reducing the gross inequalities associated with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in and between...

Agrobiodiversity Summer School 2024 In this International Summer School, you will learn about various perspectives on agrobiodiversity and its contribution to the sustainability and resilience of food systems. In small groups of international students and experts, you will have the chance to deeply investigate opportunities and challenges of the existing local production systems and food supply chains and...

This report advocates for a shift in African agricultural practices, focusing on legume-centered agroecological strategies. It highlights the problems associated with industrialized agriculture's heavy reliance on inorganic fertilizers, which exacerbates food insecurity and environmental degradation. The mid-20th-century Green Revolution, emphasizing monoculture cereal crops and non-renewable inputs, has fallen short of expectations. High...

Agroscope researchers tested the FAO method for assessing the agroecological status of farms in Switzerland for the first time, demonstrating the advantages of a holistic evaluation as well as the limits of the tool. Using a participatory approach, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has together with...

18/10/2023 -  FAO is engaging with Member states of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO) as they look to design a regional model law on Agroecology. FAO already has a basis for this work, as a legal study it conducted with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) within the Scaling...

The World Food Day, the Agroecology TPP together with WorldFish, IWMI, CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology and CIFOR-ICRAF, are launching an electronic consultation to gather feedback on a number of proposed changes to the 13 HLPE principles of agroecology – with the aim to make the references to water, aquatic foods,...