Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible...

FAO  Agroecology Newsletter of May 2022

The notion of resilience has been applied to food systems for several years now, and "food resilience" has become an even more pronounced buzzword in scientific communities, international institutions, public policies and social movements in France. In this context, we suggest some elements of clarification of the notion and of...

The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) Annual Conference 2021 focused on Circular Food Systems as possible solutions to reverse climate change. One of the sessions of the Conference was “Agriculture and food”. This session focused on challenges and solutions for implementing the principles of a circular economy in agriculture, in the context of climate...

UC Santa Cruz Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau explains how to influence and manage environmental conditions to ensure quality seedlings.

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Experiential learning based pedagogy, farmer-centric participatory research and knowledge exchange are essential for promotion of agroecological education. Way back in 1982, recognising the negative effects of high input agriculture, and link between agriculture, ecology and human dimensions, a few enthusiastic individuals in the Netherlands launched Agriculture, Man, Ecology as an international...

This is Method Gundidza an Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner in Bikita, Zimbabwe. Method shares how five communities in Bikita have catalysed a transformation in their food and farming system, as well as in their relationship with wild places, by reviving indigenous varieties of millet, their most sacred crop. “Bringing back millet reminded us...

In West Africa, many organisations had interventions on sustainable agriculture, but each one was working in isolation. In 2015, the JAFOWA program was born, whereby several organisations, foundations and NGOs decided to join forces to support Farmers' organisations to work towards sustainable agriculture by adopting agroecological practices. This video highlights...

La palmeraie de Skoura se situe dans la province de Ouarzazate, enclave arabe dans une région berbère où les populations vivent essentiellement d’une agriculture oasienne. C’est en réalité une oliveraie depuis plus de 100 ans. L’olivier a progressivement remplacé le palmier dattier, résistant mieux à la salinité de l’eau, liée...

This e-learning course will introduce key concepts related to pest surveillance, pest status determination and pest reporting, particularly as it relates to new pest detections and emerging pests. It will provide practical guidance to assist National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs) in strengthening their national surveillance systems and surveillance activities to support early pest detection,...

The game is based on a modeling framework that gamifies the implementation of agroecological practices in an integrated crop-livestock farm and assesses their impacts on sustainability. To do so, SEGAE is based on an output-oriented approach that represents impacts of practices on various indicators. These impacts are included in a...

The past months were exciting for the ALL-Ready project and we have been working hard to prepare the future network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. We are pleased to give you some insights on the project’s activities in this second edition of the ALL-Ready newsletter. Our recent activities...

This is Simon, community animator and Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner. Simon shares how indigenous communities in Tharaka, Kenya, have been working to bring their beekeeping traditions back from the brink. “We are turning the tide on the history of loss in our own lands.” By working with the bees, attending to their needs, the...

It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam)effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking for edible wild mushrooms. It had rained the night before, so the ground was damp and squishy, giving leeches a chance to...

This article is the first in a series of articles highlighting the work of our colleagues around the world to build agroecological practices, science and movements. Agroecology has emerged as a set of practices based on principles that guide how to produce food sustainably, as well as how to manage...

The first session of the Latin America portion of the 2022 People's Food Summit. Learn more about the People's Food Summit here: https://regenerationinternational.org/peoples-food-summit

It was a sunny Saturday morning, full of life and energy as we arrived in one of the beautiful and serene farming communities in the hinterlands. Whilst one could easily be put off by the roughness of the roads to the community, the freshness of the air in such forest...

No se puede discutir que la demanda de “café sostenible” está en su punto más alto. Ahora, más que nunca, tanto las marcas como los consumidores se dan cuenta de la importancia de cultivar, comprar y beber café que sea social y ambientalmente sostenible. Hay una serie de razones complejas que impulsan este...

Strengthening agricultural advisory services to make agroecological knowledge and practices available to small and marginal farmers is critical to transition towards agroecology and organic farming. Digital learning tools are a cost-effective way to train farmers on agroecological practices, encourage farmer-led experimentation and local innovation, and upscale agroecology. Ecological farming is knowledge-intensive,...