A methodology is proposed to estimate soil quality and crop health based on simple indicators that are easy to use. Based on the estimation of these indicators, producers and researchers can determine the agroecological status of the plantation. With the values obtained for each indicator, "amoeba" diagrams are constructed, which...

This report presents the full extent of the results of the study carried out as part of the project Capitalization of stakeholder experience for the development of resilient agro-ecological techniques in West Africa (CALAO). The CALAO project aims at making the following available for practitioners, political bodies, and development cooperation institutions: reference information...

The project DeMano, Spanish acronym for Mothers and Children Development in Ocotepec, focuses on improving the nutrition, health and livelihoods of communities in area of Cofre de Perote National Park (Veracruz, Mexico), through the enrichment of agricultural production and implementation of strategies based on cientific research on soils, health and...

The processes of agrarian and food transition towards sustainable food systems are constructed by including a territorial perspective. Whether they are called "short circuits" or "territorialized systems", the initiatives that enter into these transitions reconnect production with consumption and facilitate -and encourage- a collaboration between spaces and sectors. They are...

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...