La plateforme partenariale pour la transformation agroécologique vient de publier son premier rapport. Un examen des différentes mesures politiques menées à travers le monde pour soutenir l’agroécologie. Les avancées récentes et les défis restants sont passés aux cribles des expertes et experts de la plateforme.

Face au défi alimentaire et aux instabilités climatiques, l’agriculture du Bénin doit accroître ses performances économiques, sociales et environnementales, en particulier par le développement de l’agroécologie. Le numérique est souvent cité comme un levier majeur de la transition agroécologique, mais les innovations numériques en agriculture au Bénin restent peu visibles....

From May 24th to 26th, 2022, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has teamed with partners to host the first trailblazing three-day continental convening on AFRICAN AGROECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TERRITORIAL MARKETS in Munyonyo, Uganda. Over 130 people in person and 80 virtual participants attended the event, which brought...

Biodiversity constitutes an essential element in our global ecosystems and provides the foundation for agricultural practices and food production. It is essential to our well-being and food security, but it is often threatened by our activities. In some places, however, farmers have learned to work in harmony with the environment...

Organic farming is a farming method that uses natural substances and processes to produce food. This means that organic farming has a low environmental impact. In accordance with the EU regulation for organic production, it is very restrictive on the use of different synthetic products and prohibits the use of...

Since its launch in 2018, the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative seeks to mobilize dialogue, cooperation and investment within and beyond the UN system, to bring agroecology to scale and achieve multiple sustainable development goals through sustainable agriculture and food systems. Different UN Agencies are progressively supporting agroecology across their respective...

To value local culture, and to encourage a healthy lifestyle it is important that schools include topics on farming and traditional food in their curriculum and activities. Weave elements related to agroecology in the school curriculum of all the grades. By organising field visits, children can learn from farmers about...

One of principal changes within the new CAP has been the inclusion of Eco-schemes – voluntary programmes linked to the first pillar which will be available to farmers with the hope to incentivize more ecological and environmentally-friendly farming practices. While agroecology holds an eminent space within this list by being...

Este curso descubrirá qué es la agroecología, cuáles son los diferentes enfoques y cómo se traducen en prácticas agrícolas. En una dinámica de capacitación participativa, basada en la diversidad social y geográfica de los actores, el MOOC propone construir un enfoque de la agroecología desde la perspectiva de las ciencias...

Agroforestry, known and practiced by our ancestors, has recently been recognized by the UN as the most important agricultural innovation in the EU in the 21st century.  In Poland, this trend is already noticeable, although it's gaining ground slowly among the country's farmers.

Jeffrey Chimenya could not imagine that agriculture could one day allow him to own a decent home and have a thriving milk supplying business. Farming meant subsistence for Jeffrey; it didn’t mean success. Yet today, four years after joining the Nyadanawo Farmer Field School (FFS), Jeffrey says that his dreams...

At a time when the media is sounding the alarm on high prices and shortages due to the war in Europe, even if there is not always an exact correlation, we are once again questioning the information that places large corporations as the suppliers of most of our food. Anchored...

When men support women as they assume leadership roles, their families and communities become stronger and happier. A woman who values her own opinions and who has the confidence to express herself can interact with public and private institutions. This can even help to open doors to export markets. Companies...

In the framework of World Soil Day (WSD) 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) and the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) are launching a scientific children's book contest on soils for nutrition with the motto "Soils: Where food begins". By inviting...

Every year in September, during ‘India Nutrition Week,’ nutritionists, health gurus, development professionals, chefs, and other food and nutrition experts converge across the subcontinent to discuss and promote the benefits of a balanced diet for a healthy lifestyle. While malnutrition rates have dropped significantly in India over the past decades,...

The guide provides useful information for the selection of the most suitable system for seedling production, and – to those who are already growing seedlings – provides valuable recommendations for improvements.

La inseguridad alimentaria en América Latina y el Caribe alcanza el 41% y uno de cada 4 adultos sufre obesidad (FAO, et al, 2021), dicha tendencia se ha ido dando desde 2015 y acentuando en 2020, tal vez como producto de la emergencia sanitaria originada en la Covid-19. En Colombia...

FAO  Agroecology Newsletter of January 2022

FoodTank has produced an article based on the May 2022 dialogues on agroecology and the politics of knowledge, co-organized by AFSA, Groundswell International, IPES-Food, CCRP and Agroecology Fund, with the technical assistance of FAO and supported by Global Alliance for the Future of Food.  

RELACS seeks to promote the development and adoption of environmentally safe and economically viable tools and technologies to reduce the use of external inputs in organic farming systems, namely: Copper and mineral oil for plant protection, Recycled fertilizers and conventional manure in plant production, Antibiotics and anti-worm drugs (anthelmintics) in animal production, Synthetic vitamins in animal...