The ancient Egyptian civilisation, founded upon the agriculture and peasantry of the Nile Valley, is famous worldwide. Yet, today peasantry in Egypt often denotes poverty and there is a widening social divide between farmers and urban consumers. But over the past ten years, and particularly since the revolution in 2011,...

Video que da cuenta de las propuestas de esta nueva expo que se realizará del 4 al 6 de septiembre en Pocito, San Juan.

This report presents the case of demonstration farms that operate within a cooperation network. The purpose of the study was to present the advisory opportunities in the process of linking education and the needs of farmers, with regard to innovative knowledge. In this process the advisory role was shown through...

Nós, mulheres agricultoras e extrativistas que pesquisamos e produzimos em nossas roças, palmeirais, açaizais, rios e igarapés, nos juntamos para participar das importantes atividades do IX  Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia.  Agradecemos o diálogo com os pesquisadores das Universidades e outras instituições de pesquisa. “Eu já tinha conhecimento que as chuvas estavam se...

In the past 50 years, about a quarter of Japan’s cultivated land has been lost, threatening food production, cultural landscapes and biodiversity. One of Japan’s most valued cultural landscapes includes rice terraces. In order to prevent them from abandonment, an innovative concept known as the Ownership System, was devised almost...

10 March 2015, Rome - An innovative partnership spanning five African countries is providing important lessons on how governments can procure food for public institutions, such as schools, directly from small-scale family farmers. Modelled on Brazil's achievements in fighting hunger and poverty, the Purchase from Africans for Africa programme (PAA...

This document describe strategic plan of the Ministry of afgriculturte of Croatia. The document also covers activities and priorities in regards to the family farms sector.  

El recetario de saberes y sabores de nuestra tierra nace en el marco del proyecto “Saberes y Sabores: mejoramiento de productividad y nutrición de familias campesinas/indígenas de las provincias de la Sierra centro del Ecuador” cuyo fin es enfrentar la malnutrición de los sectores campesinos y urbano marginales. Paradójicamente, quienes producen...

Biowatch is among the organisations and international social movements that see agroecology as a means to realise the goal of food sovereignty. In 2007 civil society and social movement organisations representing millions of farmers met in Nyéléni in Mali to launch an international movement for food sovereignty. This movement views...

Biowatch advocates for agroecology as a proven, multi-faceted approach to creating a sustainable, diverse, just food system that applies ecological principles and methods to farming, while addressing wider environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions in order to transform the industrialised food system.

There is a wide consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is a key resource to support European agriculture in meeting new challenges such as e.g. international competition, food safety, health or environmental issues. Organisations delivering farm advice are targeted by different EU policies, such as the “Farm Advisory...

En este sitio se encuentra el programa, documentación, principales noticias, entre otros documentos relacionados con el Encuentro Nacional de Agroecología.

“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Viçosa and a member of ILEIA’s board is passionate about soils and family farmers. In her role as...

Sometidos a procesos ambientales, económicos, sociales y productivos los horticultores deben adaptarse a cambios en los aspectos productivos como comerciales. En este sentido, un conjunto de productores hortícolas, ubicados en la localidad de Open Door, distrito de Lujan han iniciado un proceso de transición hacia la agroecología. El objetivo de...

Este caderno expressa o jeito próprio das mulheres fazer as coisas, de produzir conhecimentos juntas, a pedagogia feminista, partilhada com muitas mulheres catingueiras, pesquisadoras, experimentadorras e agricultoras. A publicação é o resultado de um esforço conjunto de sintetizar a riqueza do processo de vivências de 210 mulheres agricultoras e experimentadoras de...

The total organic area in the EU-28 (i.e. the area fully converted to organic production and area under conversion) was 10.3 million hectares (ha) in 2014 and continues to show an upward trend. The increase in area between 2013 and 2014 was 2.3 %, compared with +0.2 % between 2012...

La humanidad se encuentra en una encrucijada; la de producir alimentos para un número creciente de seres humanos junto a la de preservar los bienes comunes naturales. La agricultura moderna basada en monocultivos y el uso de insumos sintéticos determina un importante impacto ambiental incluido el cambio climático. La agroecología a partir de...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Le but des organisateurs est de permettre un débat entre les scientifiques et tous les intervenants dans la sphère oasienne soit: les administrateurs, les services gouvernementaux, les collectivités locales, la société civile, les organisations nationales et internationales, les bureaux d’études et les usagers des milieux oasiens au sens large.

L’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (Fao) explore de nouvelles pistes pour mieux lutter contre la faim et la malnutrition. Elle semble vouloir activer un nouveau levier, notamment l’agroécologie. «L’agroécologie est une des solutions qui sont faites pour un monde libéré de la faim. Elle permet également de...