The booklet, edited by the United Federation of Farmers and Livestock Associations (FUGEA), presents a series of practices and techniques to reinforce farmer's autonomy and the environmental, social and economic sustainability of the farms. The booklet covers eight main topics: food systems' autonomy, livestock, diversification, soil convervation, agroforestry, water protection, energy...

This guide has been prepared by Prosalus, as a result of a study carried out within the framework of a project promoted by the INTERCOONECTA Plan of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation – (INTERCOONECTA of AECID, for its acronym in Spanish), the FAO regional office for Latin America and...

The Avaclim project (2020-2022) is funded by the Global Environment Facility and the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) and is coordinated by CARI. The project aims to create the necessary conditions for the deployment of agroecology in arid areas. It seeks to enable stakeholders to develop, apply, and sustain agroecological approaches in drylands in...

This paper, written by Schola Campesina, highlights the importance of understanding how the term ''innovation'' is passed off as good in itself. The meaning of innovation today incorporates a large part of the capitalist system that seeks to transform food production irreversibly from a communal, social, democratic act into a commercial...

This course is a joint effort of FAO and the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) and aims to be a contribution to stimulate the exchange and dissemination of good practices of agroecology in the context of territorial development, sustainability, and resilience, governance, and empowerment of communities and people. The course...