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Grandma and the Bees: My connections to Agroecosystems
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...
India
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems programme
This conference aims to make a substantial contribution to the UN Food Systems Summit’s follow-up process, in view of the first Stock-Taking Moment that is tentatively scheduled for June/July 2023 (TBC). It will build on the past fruitful collaborations of the SFS Programme with the UN FSS Secretariat and the current...
2023 - One Planet handle with care
Video
Un México sin transgénicos: hacia una propuesta trinacional. Regeneration International
La Campaña Nacional sin Maíz no hay País convocó a una conferencia de prensa con participantes de Estados Unidos y Canadá, con miras a construir estrategias conjuntas trinacionales para alcanzar la meta de un México sin transgénicos.
Mexico
2023 - Regeneration International
Blog article
Programme Agroécologie de la Cedeao : Une Etude sur les mécanismes de financement de la transition agroécologique bientôt validée
Pour la mise en œuvre du Programme Agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest par son Agence Régionale pour l’Agriculture et l’Alimentation (ARAA), la Cedeao a réalisé une étude visant à identifier et analyser les instruments et mécanismes de financement permettant d’accompagner les producteurs dans la transition agroécologique et l’intensification durable de...
2023 - Agence Régionale pour l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation (ARAA)
Blog article
Digitalisation in the Sahel – Piloting interactive voice response
Digital tools hold the potential to open the untapped potential for agroecology across Africa. One such tool, aiming to reach rural farmers in their own language, interactive voice response, was put to the test in Mali, yielding good results.
Mali
2023 - FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
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Learning by doing: how family farming as a child shaped my life
I grew up in a place known as Kabazi, Subukia Constituency and Nakuru County in Kenya. As a child of a family farming household, I had to participate in farming activities alongside my education. The family depended on its member’s labour to be able to provide adequate and nutritious food...
Kenya
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Magazine article
Amazonie : entre conservation des forêts et bonnes pratiques agricoles, développer les territoires durablement
En Amazonie, les scientifiques du Cirad et leurs partenaires orientent et accompagnent les initiatives de territoires qui allient agriculture et élevage durables, inclusion sociale, conservation et restauration des écosystèmes forestiers.
2023 - CIRAD
Newsletter
Revue Grain de sel N°84 : Formation Agricole et rurale : la clef des champs ?
Depuis près de 20 ans, le Réseau international FAR réunit les acteurs africains de la formation agricole et rurale et alerte sur le manque crucial de formation et l’urgence à relever le défi de sa massification auprès des producteurs et productrices, majoritairement jeunes et peu alphabétisés. La Formation agricole et...
2023 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
Blog article
Lancement d’un groupe de travail sur le Conseil en Agroécologie au Burkina-Faso
Le 31 août 2023, une étape décisive a été franchie dans la promotion de l'agroécologie au Burkina-Faso avec la première réunion de mise en place du Groupe de Travail sur le Conseil en Agroécologie. Cette initiative, pilotée par le Réseau des Services de Conseil Agricole et Rural d'Afrique de l'Ouest...
Burkina Faso
2023 - Rescar-aoc
Website
Regional Knowledge Platform on One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) in Africa
The One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative in Africa aims to build more sustainable food value chain systems, support family and smallholder farmers to be profitable and improve their livelihoods, minimize the use of chemical inputs and natural resources, reduce food loss and waste, and limit the negative impacts...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
The ‘inner’ dimension of Dutch farmers’ trajectories of change: drivers, triggers and turning points for sustained agroecological practices
Transformation to sustainable agriculture in the Netherlands is increasingly called for. Agroecology is acknowledged as a sustainable – potentially transformative – alternative for conventional methods of agriculture. However, few farmers adopt agroecological practices. Recent literature suggests failure to achieve sustained and transformational change may be due to neglectance of personal,...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2023
Article
Le Cirad en Amazonie
Une coopération scientifique diversifiée pour le développement durable et inclusif des territoires
L’Amazonie s’étend sur neuf pays, dont la France, pays qui assument de ce fait une responsabilité particulière vis-à-vis de l’humanité car l’Amazonie bénéficie à tous les habitants de la planète. Dans cette plus grande forêt tropicale de la planète, dotée des plus grandes réserves d’eau douce, de carbone stocké dans...
2023 - CIRAD
Technical paper
Contexto de cadena de guandul (Cajanus cajan)
La cadena de guandul ofrece un panorama del comportamiento de este cultivo a nivel nacional e internacional. En ella, se abordan aspectos fundamentales como la producción, la cosecha y el rendimiento del guandul, lo cual permite tener una visión clara de su desempeño e impacto en la productividad agrícola. Además,...
Colombia
2023 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Report
Stories of change: connecting traditional knowledge and innovations for fair and sustainable food systems
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform in collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection organized a series of “writeshops”, writing classes to support practitioners to write their own experience, generating knowledge which highlight the practices, changes, innovations and impacts of what they do in support of family farming.
These writeshops represented an opportunity...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Egypt - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Poland - Timor-Leste - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families
In the early 2000s, the Shashe farming area in Mashava, Zimbabwe, was a barren land, ravaged by deforestation and diminishing water levels. Fast forward two decades, and the region stands transformed into a beacon of agroecological innovation. Nelson Mudzingwa and Elizabeth Mpofu are among the smallholder farmers who pioneered this...
Zimbabwe
2023
Policy brief/paper
Policy brief on animal welfare
Animal welfare is an integral part of the European Union’s Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, which aims to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems in Europe through an integrated food policy that covers the whole food system. A clear example of the growing public concern around this topic is...
2023 - Slow Food
Blog article
Cultivating Agroecology in Global South
Charles Dhewa, a knowledgeable broker and management specialist, penned an article emphasizing the shift from industrial agriculture to agroecology, which applies ecological concepts to farming. Dhewa points out that while critics question agroecology's ability to support the booming global population or address unemployment in Africa, traditional commercial agriculture hasn't provided...
2023
Report
Livestock farming in the European Union: supporting an ambitious transition to peasant farming
Livestock is the subject of widespread allegations regarding its responsibility for global warming. And yet authorisations for factory farms continue to be granted and there is still major confusion about the different types of livestock farming. This confusion, added to the call for people to eat "less but better meat",...
2023 - European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC)
Website
EcoOrchard
Organic tree fruit quality and yield are often reduced (10 - >80%) because of insect and pest damage. No effective control measures exist for many of these pests. This increases economic risk and can reduce growers’ motivation to develop organic production. At the same time, there is a large potential...
2023 - CORE Organic Pleiades
Blog article
How agro-ecology battles nutritional deficiencies and food insecurity
In a recent Daily Monitor article titled "How agroecology battles nutritional deficiencies and food insecurity," the merits of agroecology over conventional farming were brought to the fore. Through testimonials from Ugandan agriculturalists, the piece underscores the adverse effects of inorganic farming, such as soil degradation and excessive fertilizer use, while...
2023
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