This report explores the politics and practices of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the context of the global movement for agroecology and food sovereignty. It frames the policy context and explains the challenges related to SSF initiatives and communities and how they organize to address them. It shows how alternative food...

Modality: Self-learning | From 15-12-21 to 31-12-22 This course provides a guide on how to evaluate agroecology using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation  (TAPE) which enables a multidimensional diagnosis to be made in a variety of contexts. It explains how the analytical framework proposed by FAO was developed, what are its underlying principles, and what are its methodological components...

The commune of Ndiob is located in the department of Fatick, 10 km south of the region of Diourbel, in west-central Senegal. The mission of the commune is to make Ndiob a green, resilient commune through a process of inclusive, endogenous development that respects the rights of vulnerable people. The commune...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations defines Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) as "remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaptation of a community with its environment and its needs and aspirations for sustainable development"....

This video presents the process through which 800 000 farmers in the southern Indian region of Andhra Pradesh cultivate their lands without any pesticides and how the agricultural region around Anantapur, one of the largest in the country, is in the process of converting to 100% natural agriculture. This is the largest agroecology project in...