We present a method for calculating the Acute Insecticide Toxicity Loading (AITL) on US agricultural lands and surrounding areas and an assessment of the changes in AITL from 1992 through 2014. The AITL method accounts for the total mass of insecticides used in the US, acute toxicity to insects using...

Rice-fish co-culture in southern China dates back more the 1000 years. The rice-fish co-culture system in Qingtian, Zhejiang Province is one of FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Co-culture rice with fish provides both rice grain and aquatic protein. Rice-fish farming systems have tremendous potential for increasing food security...

International treaties and conventions encourage national governments to recognize, protect, and promote traditional knowledge, including traditional agroecological knowledge. Following this mandate, a multidisciplinary team of Spanish scientists from 7 universities and research centers have worked together with the Spanish seed network ‘Red de Semillas: Resembrando e Intercambiando’ to develop CONECT-e....

Under the framework of the project “Scaling up agroecology to strengthen food security and improving food diversity in the Congo Basin”, the first task is to map agroecology actors and to identified agroecology practices in the Congo Basin. This work covered the mapping of the actors, their respective practices and some...

This new volume published by FAO  tries inspiration from the Conference on Mainstreaming Organic Agriculture in the African Development Agenda held in Lusaka, Zambia in May 2012. It expands on selected research shared during the event and demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems, particularly in...