Ecological impacts of industrial agriculture include significant greenhouse gas emissions, loss of biodiversity, widespread pollution by fertilizers and pesticides, soil loss and degradation, declining pollinators, and human health risks, among many others. A rapidly growing body of scientific research, however, suggests that farming systems designed and managed according to ecological...

The tribal societies of north-eastern India have wet rice cultivation as a land use activity, along with shifting agriculture (locally called `Jhum'), and the 'home gardens', which is an imitation of a forest but with economically important species. Wet rice cultivation is done a valley bottoms and sometimes on small terraces constructed...

Este documento recoge los resultados de los grupos de investigación de la Escuela Territorial y Agroecológica Manuel Quintín Lame. Durante un año los escuelantes participaron de esta iniciativa coordinada por el Grupo Semillas y las organizaciones del Sur del Tolima FICAT, ACIT, Utritol, Manos de Mujer-Coyaima y Asociación Futuro con...

Roland Bunch’s work with indigenous Mayan farmers in the highlands of Guatemala in the 1970s enabled the Campesino a Campesino (farmer-to-farmer) movement to sweep through Mexico, Central America and Cuba in the 1980s and 1990s. Cover crops were a central component of the movement’s success. In this personal letter, Roland...

Diverse, severe, and location-specific impacts on agricultural production are anticipated with climate change. The last IPCC report indicates that the rise of CO2 and associated “greenhouse” gases could lead to a 1.4 to 5.8 °C increase in global surface temperatures, with subsequent consequences on precipitation frequency and amounts. Temperature and...

The aim of the study is to assess the food security, adapting/mitigation opportunities to climate change and policy situation and draw policy recommendations. The study was conducted in some selected districts of Tigray Region, Ethiopia based on some exemplary interventions such as communities, ISD, BPA and PROLINNOVA-Ethiopia. Agriculture in tropical...