The significance and value of local and traditional farmers’ knowledge on improving agricultural practices is gaining more and more recognition. Participatory Guarantee Systems have been shown to hold great potential, to encourage knowledge sharing between farmers, and thus contribute to nurturing farmers’ knowledge.

Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethno ecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His work focuses primarily on the study of agro ecological and knowledge systems. In this interview, Toledo explains why co-creation of knowledge is an integral part of agroecology and discusses the changes...

Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...

Registra audiovisualmente las experiencias e intercambios que han tenido los integrantes del Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO Desarrollo Rural "disputas territoriales, campesinos y descolonialidad" con las realidades campesinas colombianas y la situación de despojo territorial y desplazamiento rural de la que han sido objeto. La escuela, es un espacio de reflexión...

Between September 16 and 18, 2016 the North Moravian City of Ostrava will play host to a meeting of the European organizations and communities involved in the project of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The purpose of this gathering that will be attended by over a hundred people from all over...

The central theme of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016 has a profound meaning: loving the earth is cultivating it, taking care of it, working it with love, preserving the environment and the planet that we live on. Loving the earth is what must define this moment in history, and...