Traditional Chiloé island agriculture is a highly integrated and self-sufficient system. It relies on the agrobiodiversity supported by traditional agricultural practices to efficiently use natural resources from the sea, forest and livestock for soil health improvement and for integrated pest management. The Zhejiang Huzhou system includes traditional and agroecological knowledge through...

In many regions of Canada, the footprint of agriculture is increasing. This often results in excessive losses of wildlife habitat and biodiversity, increases in GHG emissions and carbon losses, and degradation of water quality and soil resources. This project aims at conserving, protecting and valuing natural features, such as riparian...

Producing on-farm fertilizers based on local organic residues is an empowering action for family farmers. For this reason, we conducted the project “Development of alternative fertilizers to support the agroecological management of family-based agriculture production systems in Goiás, Midwest Brazil”, from June 2014 to May 2017, aimed at developing and...

The “dynamic agroforestry” method (DAF) is an innovative progression of agricultural cultivation combined with agroforestry. The method is based on the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of Latin America structured and combined with agriculture by the Swiss Ernst Götsch in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 90s, the Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst...

Terre et Paix is an EU funded project which has been implemented since February 2015 by the Italian NGO COSPE in partnership with the three national farmers’ platforms of Senegal, Mali and Niger, (CNCR, CNOP and PFPN), under the auspices of ROPPA (Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de...

The ground-breaking Caquetá Pact is a public-private alliance for zero deforestation and cattle ranching reconciliation in the Amazon region of Colombia. It brings together farmers, led by the Caqueta ́s Regional Committee of Cattle Ranchers, with government ministries, food processors, NGOs, and research & development agencies, in the (now common)...