In many parts of the world, beekeeping or apiculture is a widespread activity, with thousands of small-scale beekeepers depending on bees for their livelihoods. With the support of Apimondia, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the Apicultural Science Association of China (ASAC) and the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Lazio e Toscana...

This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional versus modern, subsistence versus commercial, or local versus global. While reflecting on the expanding oligopoly in the current seed system, the...

Seed commons—the collective management of seeds and associated knowledge—is a major aim of food sovereignty, that crucial alternative to the dead end of industrialized agriculture. To reclaim the commons explains Michel Pimbert in this wide-ranging policy analysis, there is a need to enable community control over growing, trading and consuming...

22 and 23 February 2022 | 10:00-13:00 CET| Register here Organic agriculture continues to develop dynamically in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region as in many parts of the world. The increased demand for organic products in regional and international markets provides an opportunity to develop the organic agriculture sector in the region...

This regional publication provides an overview of the development of organic agriculture in eighteen countries in the following Europe and Central Asia sub-regions: Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan); Eastern Europe (Belarus, Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine); South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia); and South-Eastern...

The first newsletter of the project “The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network: Preparation phase'' (All-Ready).