Industrialized agriculture and the corporate food system are at the center of the climate crisis and cannot be ignored in discussions about pathways to a 1.5 degree Celsius world.1 The IPCC found in 2014 that agriculture and land-use change are responsible for around one quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG)...

ActionAid joins growing global calls to ‘scale-up’ and ‘scale-out’ agroecology. As governments and donors meet at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology we urge them to join forces to support agroecology on a large scale. At least 500 million family farms produce about 80...

El auge de la agricultura, ganadería y alimentación ecológica es una realidad que va más allá de lo que se califica como moda o tendencia. Es un hecho que involucra a todos los sectores productivos de nuestro sistema alimentario y por tanto, es indiscutible que despierta gran interés, curiosidad, dudas...

El documento, se ha elaborado para la Plataforma Intergubernamental sobre Biodiversidad y Servicios de los Ecosistemas (IPBES), auspiciada por Naciones Unidas, se ha basado en el desempeño voluntario de cientos de científicos de más de 50 países. Se ha analizado alrededor de 15 000 estudios publicados desde 1970 y hemos tenido...

This report aims to explore how a paradigm shift in our food and energy systems – supported by structural lifestyle and societal changes – could greatly contribute to limit rise in average global temperature to 1.5°C without relying on risky and unproven Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) or geoengineering. CIDSE affirms that...

Sustainable small farmers should be put at the core of EU agricultural policy, according to a new paper released today by the Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia Platform for Food Sovereignty. The strongly documented publication comes ahead of a key vote in the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee in early April,...