This initiative, implemented by TERRRE VERTE NGO, secures the future of agriculture by fixing the land and the optimal conservation of rainwater and soil. Thus, producers have a sustainable productive land. Bocage is a technique for integrating environmental conservation into rainfed agriculture in the Sahel. The bocage is defined as a rural...

Traditional, Indigenous, and place-based knowledge offer essential insights for sustainable pathways, yet they are regularly excluded from decision-making about agricultural and food system funding, policies, and actions. Centering a diversity of knowledge and ways of knowing is critical to deepening democracy in agricultural research, innovation, and implementation to address these...

Global food systems face sustainability challenges like undernourishment, inequity, resource degradation, and pollution. Food production and consumption drive environmental change with greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and land-system shifts. The climate change crisis has intensified concerns about the ecological impact of these systems. Sustainable food networks, such as community-supported agriculture,...

Agroecology is gaining global momentum, driven by a growing body of determined smallholders and family farmers, Indigenous Peoples, civil society actors, policy makers and researchers. They are paving the way for a profound transformation of how food is produced, distributed, consumed and governed; reshaping our relationship with food and the...

This article offers a panoramic view of the agroecological movement, led by several peasant and indigenous organizations around the world, and by different kinds of allies. The agroecological movement is defined as a diverse, decentralized coalition of movements, organizations and collectives, widely dispersed in urban and rural spaces, focused on...

Knowledge sharing and co-creation for application offer pathways for the multidimensional challenges of food systems in West Africa which are to date still largely underexplored. They have the potential for the emergence of effective communities of practice to tackle some of the serious threats West African food systems face today,...