In 1981, Enda Tiers Monde, an NGO based in Dakar, Senegal, initiated a study on the risks of pesticides to human and environmental health in the region. The group observed that agricultural production techniques in Senegal relied on synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and had greatly contributed to the degradation of African...

While agroecology becomes a concrete reality for an increasing number of producers and communities across the world, it also sparks meaningful discussions around the urgent need for sustainable transformation of food systems in international debates. The origins of agroecology can vary in terms of its different dimensions, as a science,...

What is the story behind the food you eat? What if people actually valued all the underpaid and unpaid labor that goes into food? What if women were not doing most of the work? And if women and girls weren’t the last ones to eat? What if it weren't mostly...

Agroecology Newsletter of February 2022

Soils in good condition are indeed the first condition for food production and quality of life: they provide nutrients and shelter the organisms through which food grows - also limiting diseases and pests - they contribute to the regulation of the quality of water that society consumes, of the local...

Este libro muestra cómo diferentes actores del sistema cubano de innovación formal e informal responden al desafío que presenta la crisis del sistema alimentario mundial. Desde una visión concertada, presenta los resultados del proyecto ""Desarrollo de sistemas descentralizados y participativos de garantías ambientales en Cuba"". El texto propone un acercamiento al...