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...

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...