It was early February 2020. I was headed off with my camera crew, our field officer – Kumar and our NGO partner from Bagalkot to visit and film some Fair Price shops. There were muttered rumours of a virus called COVID. WhatsApp messages, sounding the alarm of a pandemic, were...

A profound transformation of agricultural production methods has become unavoidable due to the increase in the world’s population, and environmental and climatic challenges. Agroecology is now recognized as a challenging model for agricultural systems, promoting their diversification and adaptation to environmental and socio-economic contexts, with consequences for the entire agri-food...

La Asociación Nacional de Empresas Comercializadoras de Productores del Campo (ANEC) was founded in 1995 in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ANEC  offers member farmers, a diverse array of small and medium commercial grain farmers from 17 different Mexican states. Initially, ANEC assisted in the...

Agroecology concerns the integrative study of entire food systems, encompassing ecological, economic and social dimensions and involves design of individual farms using principles of ecology involving landscape, community and bioregion with emphasis on uniqueness of place and the people and other species inhabitating that place. Target groups are MSc and...

This online course, launched by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and the French National Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Science, Montpellier SupAgro, shows 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...