The High-Level Virtual Event “Scaling up Agroecology Initiative” held on Tuesday 19 April 2022 aimed at sharing the main achievements in the implementation of Agroecology since the launch of the initiative. The event brought together over 650 participants who learned about success stories and the enabling environment that takes agroecology...

The plateaux of Togo have been witnessing land and soil degradation due to inappropriate agricultural practices, the use of chemical fertilizers, climate change, and deforestation. Since 2004, Young Volunteers for the Environment (YVE), alongside the African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES) and the National Institute for Agricultural Training,...

19 April 2022  Since its launch in 2018, the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative seeks to mobilize dialogue, cooperation and investment within and beyond the United Nations (UN) system, to bring agroecology to scale and achieve multiple sustainable development goals through sustainable agriculture and food systems. Different UN Agencies are progressively supporting...

This course will explore what agroecology is, what the different approaches are and how they translate into agricultural practices. In a participatory training dynamic, based on the social and geographical diversity of the actors, the MOOC proposes to build an approach to agroecology from the perspective of agronomic sciences, ecology...

In 2021, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) joined the Collective Action on Forgotten Food led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR), Alliance of Bioversity International, and CIAT, Crops for the Future Research Centre. According to GFAR (2021), "forgotten foods are derived from a...

Alain Karsenty, an environmental economist, has been a Senior Scientist at CIRAD (Montpellier, France) since 1992. His research and expertise area are focused on economic instruments for the environment. He has extensive knowledge of land tenure, concessions, forest policies, and practices in West & Central Africa and Madagascar, his main...