Community Supported Fisheries have been springing up all over the world. They are every bit as much an answer to industrial fishing as CSA is to agriculture. In North America there are already many thousands of members in an organised network, Local Catch.org. The network has much in common with...

The EIP-AGRI workshop 'Organic is Operational' took place in Hamburg, Germany, on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 June 2017.

Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...

This report is a result of research conducted in partnership with Tshintsha Amakhaya, Farmer Support Group, TCOE Zingisa and Surplus People Project. The report investigates the state of farmer-managed seed systems in rural South Africa. Through 3 case studies in Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, the report highlights both...

The farmland structure of the Misiones province (Argentina), unlike many other regions in the country, gravitates around numerous small farmsteads –typically less than 30 ha, which are the home of 60,000 families dedicated to forestry, agriculture, livestock raising, fisheries and beekeeping. In this context, the ‘Abundance’ cooperative was established in...

L’instabilité du régime pluviométrique affecte la production maraîchère dans la commune de Parakou située au Nord du Bénin. Cet article vise à analyser la variabilité pluviométrique et à identifier les stratégies d’adaptation développées par les producteurs maraîchers.

Genetic modification of crops through natural evolution or artificial crossbreeding has been happening for millennia, giving rise to more productive or resilient crop species. Thus, the term ‘genetic engineering’ more accurately refers to the artificial introduction of genetic material to produce new GE varieties. Advocates of genetically engineered (GE) crops...

The Earth’s climate has always undergone periodic changes that have affected the conditions available to life on the planet. Yet recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the highest in history and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are unprecedented in at least...

Durante o Seminário Intermunicipal Mulheres na Agroecologia, o titular da Delegacia Federal de Desenvolvimento Agrário de Pernambuco (DFDA/PE), Rodrigo Almeida, destacou a importância das mulheres não só para a agroecologia, mas para a agricultura familiar. Os debates giraram em torno dos direitos das mulheres do campo e da cidade.  E os...

In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Brazil, Senegal and Thailand. These meetings brought together stakeholders from academia, policy and civil society to...

A produção de alimentos orgânicos tem tudo para render ótimos resultados em 2017. Um levantamento feito pela Coordenação de Agroecologia (Coagre) da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo (SDC), vinculada ao Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa), mostrou que a área de produção orgânica no país pode ultrapassar os...

Sjoerd Wartena – founder of Terre de Liens, a French landrights movement – explains to Elisabeth Winkler from the Biodynamic Land Trust, how he and his wife created a civic organisation.

The beehives of Ethiopia, Africa’s top honey producer, make about a quarter of the continent’s honey, but travellers who come to sample the liquid gold often find there isn’t enough to go around. In a country where 85% of all jobs are in agriculture, industry experts say the beekeeping – or...

Growing crops is a challenge in the hilly terrain of Assam-India. To counter this, Sloping Agriculture and Land Technology (SALT) has been introduced as an alternative farming method to the farmers in place of jhum.  Farmers are trained on - A-frame or making the contour line by using the A-frame;...

Fundado a fines de 1987, manteniendo un 200 accionar el Movimiento de Agricultura Urbana, y Suburbana (AUSU) es uno de los siete programas más importantes del Ministerio de la Agricultura (MINAG) y contribuye al autoabastecimiento alimentario local, mediante tecnologías agroecológicas, con profundo carácter de sostenibilidad y seguridad alimentaria local, aún en...

'Farm-to-fork' is not just a trendy buzzword but an exciting new ethos for how we eat that's taking hold in all walks of Irish life - from an urban farm in Dublin to an open prison in Cavan and a Michelin-star restaurant in Galway

While India was home to more than 100,000 rice varieties only 50 years ago, today more than 80% of the area dedicated to grow rice is planted with hybrid varities. Thanks to the efforts of about 1,400 farmers in the Koraput region (Odisha state), traditional varieties of "desi dhaan", as they...

El Foro Taller: “Innovaciones Sociales para la Agricultura Familiar” busca promover un espacio teórico – práctico con el compartir de las experiencias de diferentes organizaciones agrarias de la Agricultura Familiar junto a universidades, centros de investigación, redes de sustentabilidad y comunidades sociales del país en procesos como Agroecología, Bio-construcción, Circuitos...

Seventy percent of food worldwide is produced by smallholders, including family farms and private households. Connecting those small producers to processing facilities and markets can be a challenge but it is possible, as an international conference in Astana last week made clear. In Kazakhstan, the country’s 1.6 million private households and...

The potential contribution of organic farming to the public goods, ‘Nature and Biodiversity’, ‘Environment’, ‘Energy and Climate’, ‘Human Health and Welfare’ and ‘Animal Health and Welfare’ in Denmark is guided and partly secured by the principles and specific requirements of the EU Organic Regulation. However, other factors, such as the...