With increasing global consensus on the need to support a transition to sustainable agricultural practices, the Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance has launched an innovative tool to assess the degree to which national budgets and overseas development assistance (ODA) in Africa support a transition to agroecology. In response to growing...

Nearly half of Europeans think that securing a stable supply of food in the EU at all times should be a main objective of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) according to the latest Eurobarometer on agriculture and the CAP published today. In addition, more than half of respondents (55%) think...

1.   The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration signifies the ambition to move be-yond a defensive focus on biodiversity protection towards a proactive agenda of restoring ecosystems to generate value for people and nature.2.   The international nature regime, based on the linked concepts of biodiversity and sustainable development, has achieved much....

This document is the second of two. It explains the methodology of the indicator system in detail and guides the evaluator on how to assign a value to each criterion, conduct the assessment and interpret the results. The first document introduces the system of indicators and describes its principles.

Nestled in a verdant valley in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, about a four-hour drive southwest of Bangalore, the agroecology learning center Amrita Bhoomi is one of dozens of farmer-to-farmer training hubs around the world focused on agroecology. The center was born out of organizing efforts of the local...

Register here Organized by the Forest and Farm Facility in collaboration withthe Vietnam Farmer’s Union (VNFU)in the context of the UN Decade of Family Farming.   The objective of the conference is to discuss how business models can foster diversification – not uniformity. Gathering representatives from FFPOs, governments, international organizations, CSO/NGOs and other stakeholders from...

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...

‘You shall not push farmers into one or another direction, but empower them to decide.’ Farmer’s representatives Shamika Mone from India and Elizabeth Nsimadala from Uganda on ecological farming methods, the need for sustainable food systems, and negotiating small-holders’ rights on the international stage.

I spent my summer vacations at my grandma's after my 6th-grade examinations. Grandma lives in a small village in Kerala in India. It was always fun to be at her place, spending my days playing, helping in the kitchen and feeding the cows. I rarely visited grandma every year as...

This study presents the concepts and methods of farm certification schemes and provides information on the main existing schemes in the EU and in third countries. It analyses how these schemes can help the EU reach its sustainability objectives in the farming sector and be instrumental in the implementation and...

El trailer del documental "Detrás del humo”aborda indaga sobre las causas de los incendios que se intensificaron en 2020 y dejaron más de 400 mil hectáreas destruidas, y más de 900 especies animales afectadas.

The species Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp), commonly known as cowpea, is a multi-purpose legume that has been selected into three subspecies that are divided into grain, fodder and pod (yardlong bean) types. However, genetic bases for distinctions are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to apply genotyping-by-sequencing...

In Cuba, food security is still a challenge after years of wars to fight against colonialism, imperialism and climate change. Yet, the island is far beyond the European Green Deal objectives, having largely achieved most of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity targets that the EU aspires to attain by 2030....

Las mujeres rurales juegan un rol transformador en el desarrollo agrícola y rural, así como en garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. Sin embargo, las mujeres tienen menos acceso a los Servicios de Asistencia Técnica y Extensión Rural (SAR), que los hombres e incluso, cuando logran tener acceso, la información,...

 About 30 percent (12.6 million people) of Ukraine’s population lives in rural areas (as of January 2021). Agriculture plays an increasingly important role in the Ukrainian economy, with its share of GDP (including forestry and fishery) rising from 6.3 percent in 2007 to 9.3 percent in 2020.  When upstream and downstream industries...

The world’s oceans can no longer sustain the ever-rising demand for fish. Aquaculture offers an alternative approach – if production is sustainable and high quality. INRAE, the Aqualande group and its selective breeding company Les Sources de l’Avance, and the French Poultry and Aquaculture Breeders Technical Center (SYSAAF) reviewed data...

Este estudio examina el efecto de la propiedad efectiva de tierras por parte de la mujer sobre el empoderamiento femenino y la seguridad alimentaria del hogar, en el contexto de la agricultura familiar peruana. Utilizando un enfoque de variable instrumental, exploramos si la propiedad informal autodeclarada de parcelas dota a...

Sustainable agriculture and agroecology are now essential to the discussion on agricultural models in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study develops a typology of farms with different levels of agroecology, from none to advanced adoption and the findings provide a better understanding of agroecology’s development in dynamic rural contexts such as the Niayes....

Food systems require urgent and profound transformation to become sustainable, both in Europe and worldwide. Social innovation plays a pivotal role in transforming today’s food systems into ones that are economically and socially feasible, and sustainable within planetary boundaries. This briefing presents the results of a systematic examination of emerging...

Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) son herramientas utilizadas en diferentes sectores productivos, incluyendo el sector agropecuario. Teniendo en cuenta su uso tanto en zonas rurales como urbanas, se constituyen en una alternativa para la difusión de información, la transferencia de tecnología y la gestión del conocimiento....