For over a decade ActionAid Mozambique (AAMoz) has worked with strategic partner organisations in the south and north-east of the country to promote agroecology initiatives with 80 farmers’ associations consisting of over 8000 farmers. 96% of the members are women and 30% of them young people, cultivating an average of...

Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs...

In the world of agriculture, all too often we stop cultivating a vegetable or raising an animal breed simply because they are not profitable enough. The economic market is oriented to maximizing yields at all costs, concentrating on a small selection of the most “productive” species. Though it may warrant...

Around the year 2010, the research field of “transition studies” was gaining increasing attention and was developing into a true research community with the advent of the “Sustainability Transitions Research Network” (STRN), the organisation of annual international sustainability transition (IST) conferences, and the launch of a scientific journal, named “Environmental...

"OBJETIVOS DEL LIBROAsegurar una buena nutrición para todos es tarea de todos. Con este libro buscamosestimular la curiosidad acerca de la biodiversidad hortícola y de su valor cultural,nutricional y económico y así fomentar la experimentación, para tener una alimentación más variada y balanceada, rica en nutrientes que ayudan a prevenir...

"CCRP has funded agricultural research and development projects in West Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger) since 2006. As one of the poorest regions in the world, challenges certainly abound, but a wealth of opportunities also exist. Among these are highly diverse and robust major crops such as pearl millet,...