The crisis faced, due to the impacts of climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystems, pandemics, or wars, renders even more urgent a transition to agroecological food systems which are more resilient and less dependent on external inputs.  Agroecology is a way to express the four principles of organic farming...

The debate concerning the need for significant transformations toward more nutrition-oriented, environmentally sustainable, and inclusive food systems has generated increased attention towards agroecology in recent years. Literature on this subject has already demonstrated that transitions to agroecology will be context specific, as countries and regions have distinctive visions for the...

This video depicts the inauguration of the Indo-German Global Academy for Agroecology Research and Learning (IGGAARL). The global academy is located on the Andhra Pradesh Centre for Advanced Research in Livestock (APCARL) campus in Pulivendula and will be taking up research initiatives through competitive grants involving globally and nationally acclaimed research institutes...

The key to implementing farmer field schools (FFS) is to trigger an experimentation process based on collaboration between a group of farmers and a facilitator. The purpose of this document is to provide project managers, technicians, and designers with practical information on how to use the FFS approach and adapt...

The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, based on group experimentation of innovative practices and/or farming systems, is in line with participatory farm advisory efforts. This approach has an ambitious goal: strengthening farmers’ skills so that they can adapt their practices, or even invent new ones, and move towards more agroecological...

Today, one of the major global challenges we face is that of feeding the world. Would it be possible to solve this challenge? If yes, via what pathways? Nowadays, two paradigms come up when discussing solutions to the global food challenge. One is the technical, scientific, and large-scale ‘one size fits...