Sustainable agriculture and agroecology are now essential to the discussion on agricultural models in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study develops a typology of farms with different levels of agroecology, from none to advanced adoption and the findings provide a better understanding of agroecology’s development in dynamic rural contexts such as the Niayes....

Over the last three decades, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have proven to be an effective discovery-learning-capacity building approach to help rural populations to innovate with more clarity and purpose while building the social skills needed for rural transformation and empowerment. The diverse forestry and agroforestry applications of the FFS demonstrate...

This article details the experience shared during World Soil Day 2022 event on how to make uncultivable soil fertile and suitable for food production in Slovenia while increasing interest in this subject for younger generations through practice-driven education.

How to engage farmers that have limited formal education is at the foundation of environmentally sound and equitable agricultural development.  This study describes the process of development of an innovative curriculum, which integrates agroecology, nutrition, climate change, gender, and other dimensions of social equity across 2 weeks of training explicitly for...

This article details an open laboratory field school where researchers from CIRAD and INERA and farmers work together in a field trial to ecologically intensify their cropping system.  

This report was presented at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity and it analyses ten grounded experiences from Latin America. The experiences described show that territorial, human-rights based and transdisciplinary approaches towards biodiversity lead to its conservation while strengthening the sustainability of local livelihoods.