This policy brief is one in a series led by Chulalongkorn University (CU) with support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC), Ministry of Education, Thailand, in partnership with FAO. The series was initiated to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Work-Plan on Education - AWPE, 2016-2020...

This article reflects on the regional dialogue on agroecology held on 12 May 2022 and co-organized by Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF), Asia Farmers Association (AFA), and Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming (APCNF) with technical assistance from the FAO. The event was a follow-up to the  GAFF, 2021 publication entitled The Politics of Knowledge: Understanding the...

The Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) is one of Coventry University’s Flagship Research Centres and the largest centre in the world doing transdisciplinary research on the links between agroecology and sustainable food systems, water management, and community and socio-ecological resilience. CAWR brings together a large and growing international...

The use of the term ‘agroecology’ to alternatively refer to an agricultural production system, a social movement, and a practice reflects the three main dimensions of agroecology: the environmental-productive, the socio-political, and the socio-cultural dimensions. To date, the agroecological movement in Europe has focused on its environmental-productive (strengthening agroecological production)...

In this essay, we look at the symbolic and material territorialization of agroecology in La Via Campesina (LVC) through peasant-to-peasant processes (PtPPs) in the broad sense. The most significant examples of the scaling up of agroecology are clearly tied to organizational processes and in our perspective, PtPPs are the motor...