Agroecology potentially offers a sustainable path to agricultural development as it integrates ecological principles and social and economic concerns into agri-food systems. While many descriptive studies have documented the experience of farming communities using agroecological approaches, evidence on social and economic indicators of agroecology is poorly documented in a quantitative...

The Farmers and Rural Producers’ Organizations Mapping (FO-MAPP) was created to fill the critical information and visibility gap of farmers’ organizations. FO-MAPP is an interactive online database that provides geo-referenced information on local smallholders', family farmers' and other rural producers’ organizations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the...

In Niger, climate change and economic factors are affecting the living conditions of agricultural producers. Distorted by the promise of better yields, many Nigerien producers have abandoned their farming practices and peasant varieties to adopt new and sometimes inappropriate practices. This case deals with black millet and white onion, two...

Marciel, Guatemalan farmer explains his reinforced experience to organize communities and take care of the biodiversity after participating in the Exchange between Farmers of Arid and Semi-arid Regions of the World, which is being promoted by the Brazilian Semi-arid Articulation (ASA) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 

CELIA and Conciencia Verde organize an online course on Agroecology and the reconstruction of post-COVID-19 agriculture from 8 to 12 June 2020. This course will be held in Spanish and will cover the following topics: Day 1: The crisis of industrial agriculture including the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture and nutrition by Miguel Altieri; Day 2:...