Healthy soils contribute to resilient food production. Soil carbon is a key to healthy soils but, today we see the long-term consequences of agricultural management that has neglected soil carbon – degraded soils, polluted waters, and unprecedented rates of hunger and malnutrition. There are good examples of agroecological practices that...

The Gîrboiu wine cellar is a family business created in 2005. The vineyards are set in the Cotești village, located in an area with a climate extremely favorable for growing grapevine and a soil rich in mineral, unique in the south-east of Romania. This area has a vast tradition in winemaking,...

Grain de sel est la revue semestrielle d’Inter-réseaux Développement rural. Chaque numéro est consacré à une thématique précise et vise à faire participer aux débats et réflexions autour de ce thème une diversité d’acteurs et de points de vue.

The area where the beneficiary of this project activates is in a vegetable area with tradition in Braila County, but which is insufficiently exploited due to the population aging process. Considering the growth of the consumption of vegetables and fruit, especially of the local and natural ones, Aurelia Dunose decided...

Cáceres (MT) – A pesquisa Promovendo Agroecologia em Rede, que a Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA) está realizando no país, envolvendo sete regiões brasileiras, com o apoio da Fundação Banco do Brasil e do BNDES na realidade traça um retrato da agricultura familiar no momento histórico. Sem contar as diferenças...

In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. The video is embedded below and a full transcript of the talk is available here. Being part of the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (host of the debate),...

With the arrival of spring, small-scale farmers in the conflict-affected Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine are ready to get back to farming. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will be there to help, with initial assistance valued at US$ 800,000, the Organization announced today. Conflict in eastern Ukraine...

Con el fin de visibilizar la agricultura familiar en el país se realiza esta investigación en la que se caracteriza y tipifica las formas de agricultura indígena en la comunidad de Ceima Cachivera en las dimensiones social, cultural, económica, productiva y ambiental, La comunidad está ubicada dentro de la periferia...

Senegal, like all Sahelian countries, suffers from the combined effects of population growth and climate disturbances that affect its productive bio- system and induce degradation. This is manifested in different forms depending on the physical environment and production systems in different eco-geographic areas. Several factors are responsible for the degradation...

Due to its prime location, Guinea has significant potential for fruit and vegetable production. The country has assets such as soil fertility, abundant rainfall and a rural population traditionally oriented towards agriculture. Farmers represent 61% of the population and constitute 80% of the poor. They are mainly engaged in the...

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida. 

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental, desenvolvido pelo Departamento de Educação Ambiental da Secretaria de Articulação Institucional e Cidadania Ambiental do Ministério do Meio Ambiente - DEA/SAIC/MMA, destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores e agricultoras propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com...

African Civil Society Statement: FAO Regional Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Dakar, 2015.

En esta presentación se identifican unidades eco-territoriales en Venezuela, se describen los sistemas agrícolas y otros usos de cada categoría y se definen orientaciones para el manejo y uso sostenible del territorio.

How to replace HHPs with ecosystem-based approaches to pesticide and crop management

La experiencia vivida en la localidad Villa los Llanos-Estación Juárez Celman tiene por objetivo conocer la realidad de la agricultura familiar integrando conceptos productivos agroecológicos y sociales a través del metodología que implica la observación y el diagnostico. Observación que fue realizada de una forma no estructurada, llevada a cabo a...

The county of Loga is considered the most underprivileged in the Dosso region and one of the poorest in Niger. A community rehabilitation program, after the food crisis of 2012, ranked the county as the most vulnerable area of all five departments that make up the Dosso region. The annual...

This video explores the different perspectives of food providers on agroecology and the calls from social movements to embed agroecoogy in the struggle for food sovereignty. It focuses on the International Declaration for Food Sovereignty which has been advanced by social movements to claim agroecology as a bottom up practice,...

Ukraine agriculture has been evolving since the country achieved independence in 1991, following the breakup of the Soviet Union. The first round of farm reforms in 1992-93 initiated privatization of land through the distribution of paper shares to the rural population and mandated the transformation of former collective and state...

A movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend and strengthen agroecology as the pathway towards a most just, sustainable and viable food and agriculture system. This video explores...