Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...

Mongolia is located in Central Asia in between Russia and China. Only 1% of the arable land in Mongolia is cultivated with crops. The agriculture sector therefore remains heavily focused on nomadic animal husbandry with 75% of the land allocated to pasture, and cropping only employing 3% of the population. Dundgobi...

This policy brief discusses ways to scale up agroecological approaches and suggests actionable advice tailored for various stakeholders, including policy-makers, private sector, financial partners, research and development community and civil society. The brief focuses on how to design scaling up initiatives and provides success as well as failure stories.

Rocrops is a smallholder farm established in 1990 in Trinidad. It is owned and managed by the husband and wife Ramgopaul and Beena Roop. The Rocrops farm is comprised of 1.29 ha. (3ac) of former degraded and acidic (3.5pH) sugar cane lands. The development of the farm has emphasized a...

The FAO Technical Network on Sustainable Crop Production and Agroecology 
 is pleased to invite you to  the webinar   SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND AGROECOLOGY online at: https://fao.adobeconnect.com/_a1026619000/r99znxs4li9/ 7 December 2016, from 12:00h - 13:00h (GMT +1)   Pablo Tittonell, national coordinator of the Natural Resources and Environment Program of Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Argentina’s agricultural research...