The study ''Impacts of COVID-19 on Agrifood Systems in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil'', carried out by the Semear Internacional Program, involved community residents, Continuing Technical Assistance teams and public managers of the six projects supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Brazil. In order to carry out...

The Agroecology and Education Dictionary, produced by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV-Fiocruz), Brazil coordinated with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and in partnership with the Expressão Popular Publishing House, brings out the relationship between knowledge and practice present in the perspective of agroecology, and how it can be realized through education.  This book...

Mr. Ernest Aubee, Head of Agriculture Division, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission presented agroecology as one of the ways to ensure food security, sustenance of the people’s health and the environment. In a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria, he described agroecology as the application of...

As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate industrial farming models promoted by developed countries? Or will they move boldly into the uncertain future, embracing ecological agriculture? According to a report...

People’s initiative to promote ecological approaches to agriculture and the re-localization of decentralized food systems are remarkable in war-torn Kurdistan. Efforts to generate Kurdish ecologies through agroecology, food sovereignty, and economies of care are uniquely based on traditions of social ecology, a rejection of patriarchal relations, and democratic confederalism. Kurdish ecological...

Agroecology has been recognized by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), established within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as one of three paradigm shifts to achieve resilient and low-emission agriculture. With further targeting, the GCF could be major leverage for shifting financial flows to sustainable...