The overall aim of OK-Net EcoFeed is to help farmers, breeders and the organic feed processing industry in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed for monogastrics, in particular pigs, broilers, laying hens and parents of broilers and laying hens. In the last two decades, the market...

A major meeting this week brought together farmers, bankers, governments and development partners from across Africa and beyond to discuss ways to ensure smallholder farmers, the backbone of the region’s food system, have access to the finance they need to improve and scale up sustainable forest and farm management practices. The...

This interview is part of a series conducted in the lead-up to the 4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems programme to be held from 24-27 April in Hanoi, Vietnam.  When asked about the current moment for food systems, Lim Li Ching brings the conversation back to 2009, when...

With the support of the OK-Net EcoFeed project this field lab has been investigating ways of reducing pig and poultry farmer's reliance on imported protein for animal feed. It is common practice to clean grains prior to sale leaving a waste product known as tailings, however this product is often...

In 2007 the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) played a vital role in uniting small-scale food producers and their allies to establish Over time, a robust global movement for food sovereignty emerged, gaining significant political recognition. Together, we have achieved the democratization of global food and agricultural arenas, including...

Individuals and communities socially construct risk, and societies with greater risk perception may be more apt to mobilize or adapt to emergent threats like climate change. Increasing climate change awareness is often considered necessary in the first stages of the adaptation process to manage its impacts and reduce overall vulnerability....

“El suelo es el único material mágico que convierte la muerte en vida”. El filósofo indio Sadhguru, uno de los fundadores del movimiento Salvemos el Suelo, trata de concienciar al mundo sobre la importancia de un cambio de enfoque en los problemas medioambientales: detener la degradación del suelo, una medida...

Les agriculteurs africains, aussi bien les petites exploitations que les plus grandes fermes, recourent très largement à toute une palette de pratiques agroécologiques. Cette observation controversée vient d'être révélée dans un nouveau document de travail de l'équipe du projet Viabilité. Une réalité qui s'applique à un large éventail de contextes...

“10% agroforestry land-use mandatory for every organic farm” is the call from the European Organic-PLUS and AGROMIX research projects led by Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR). This impact is being discussed by certification bodies and may become UK/EU organic and agroecological standard at the next ‘organic-plus’ upgrade of...

Agroecological transitions aim at developing sustainable farming and food systems, adapted to local contexts. Such transitions require the engagement of local actors and the consideration of their knowledge and reasoning as a whole, which encompasses different natures of knowledge (empirical, scientific, local, generic), related to different dimensions (economic, environmental, technical,...

With the support of the OK-Net EcoFeed project this field lab has been investigating ways of reducing pig and poultry farmer's reliance on imported protein for animal feed. The practice of sprouting seeds has been proposed as a method of ensuring green food is available for livestock all year round...

Fondé par Séda et Tiyéda Bawiena dans leur région natale de Kara au Nord Togo, le Centre International de Développement Agro – Pastoral (CIDAP) promeut l’agropastoralisme et l’agroécologie depuis les années 1980. Retour sur les évolutions majeures de ce centre de formation de référence qui donne une place centrale à...

From as early as I can remember, my grandparents inspired me with their love for gardening and growing food. They were enthusiastic, knowledgeable and instinctively knew how to grow vegetables and fruit. As a young child I would spend many days in the home garden with them, helping to weed...

Agroecology is a body of knowledge, practices and political movements that aims to support transformation of food and agricultural systems to long-term social and environmental sustainability. African farmers face multiple challenges, and agroecology has been proposed as contributing to solutions and hence is being supported and promoted on the continent....

Agricultural & Rural Convention ARC2020 Newsletter Summer 2023. This summer, find the time to visit a farm, to chat with farmers, to break bread together. And if you are a farmer reading this, and you can find the time  - reach out to people driven by environmental campaigning passion. Bring them to...

Le CIRAD et ses partenaires, dans le cadre de l’Initiative pour l’intensification écologique de la banane plantain en Afrique (IPA), ont saisi l’occasion de la 6ème édition du Salon de l’Agriculture et des Ressources Animale (SARA 2023) à Abidjan, en Côte d’Ivoire, pour organiser une conférence-débat sur le thème :...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), kicked off a two-week training course on animal quarantine management in Sing District, a border area between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and China. The training course aimed to accelerate safer cattle...

Agroecology represents an unparalleled opportunity to address biodiversity loss while providing simultaneous, multiple co-benefits to climate adaptation, food security, water conservation, ecosystem resilience, sustainable livelihoods and human rights. As substantiated by scientific evidence, agroecology addresses many of the direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss. Given that monoculture and industrial...

OGA webinar with Roger Hitchings, Tim Deane, and Phil Sumption on converting land to organic horticulture. Phil Sumption introduced the webinar with an overview of relevant findings from the Defra-funded Conversion to Organic Field Vegetable Production project, and the latest in conversion payments. Roger's talk focused on the kind of...

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a group made up of over 200 million farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous peoples, and women's and youth movements, is calling for a wide-scale shift to agroecology in order to build a resilient food system on the continent. AFSA's Program Coordinator, Bridget Mugambe,...