The Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) funds participatory, collaborative research on agroecological intensification, bringing smallholder farmers, researchers, development professionals, and others together to create technology to improve nutrition, livelihoods, and productivity for farming communities in Africa and South America. Playlists: Urine as an effective, low-cost fertilizer (6 videos) Women’s Ag...

Dr. M Jahi Chappell at the World Food Prize: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Background In September 2014 the International symposium on agroecology for food security and nutrition was held in FAO HQ, Rome (www.fao.org/3/a-i4327e.pdf). This has been followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Latin America (www.fao.org/3/a-i5143e.pdf), sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and the Pacific (www.fao.org/3/a-i5672e.pdf). In order to continue to develop this regional approach,...

In 2010, the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) was established to undertake applied research and education on agroecology as the underlying paradigm of sustainable agriculture. This approach is required not only to ensure that all the peoples of the world are fed, but also for humanity to avoid...

In a context of a changing climate and growing concerns for more healthy food systems, agroecology is gaining momentum as a scientific discipline, sustainable farming approach and social movement. There is growing anecdotal and case study evidence of its multiple benefits, from climate resilience to farm productivity. Yet its promotion...

Las últimas crisis internacionales –cuyos ejes principales e interrelacionados fueron el cambio climático, la producción de alimentos, la escasez de fuentes de energía y la explosión de la burbuja inmobiliaria en Estados Unidos–, han obligado a redirigir la mirada hacia los elementos más básicos de la producción y la reproducción...