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Policy brief/paper
Agroecology: a transformative opportunity for biodiversity and the Rio conventions
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...
2023 - Biovision Foundation and partners.
Video
Converting land to organic horticulture: OGA webinar
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...
2023 - Organic Growers Alliance
Blog article
Opinion: 5 demands for more climate-resilient food systems in 2023
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,...
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Journal article
Why and how do farmers’ organizations get involved in the promotion of agroecological techniques? Insights from Burkina Faso
Agroecological techniques (AET) have been recognized by many farmers, NGOs, and farmers’ organizations (FOs) as a promising solution for slowing down the persistent soil fertility degradation in West African drylands. In the context of Burkina, the promotion of AET is the result of the interactions between NGOs and farmers’ knowledge...
Burkina Faso
2023
Website
One Million Voices of Agroecology
Discover and share valuable resources and knowledge, find agroecological practices near you and connect with a like-minded community. Create a profile, explore, be found.
2023 - One Million Voices of Agroecology
Blog article
Agricultura Regenerativa: transición a una gestión ecosistémica de la agricultura
La agricultura pasa por tiempos de gran complejidad, enfrenta grandes retos, ante la preocupación por la seguridad alimentaria, la necesidad de prevenir la degradación ambiental y mejorar las condiciones de la tierra para la producción agrícola, así como condiciones climatológicas adversa, escases o ineficiencia en el uso del agua, complicaciones...
2023 - Proyecto Puente
Technical paper
Historias de cambio: conectando el conocimiento tradicional y las innovaciones para sistemas alimentarios justos y sostenibles
La Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre Agricultura Familiar en colaboración con Barefoot Guide Connection organizó una serie de “talleres de escritura”, para ayudar a los profesionales a escribir sus propias experiencias, generando conocimientos que destaquen las prácticas, cambios, innovaciones e impactos de lo que hacen en apoyo a la agricultura familiar.
Estos...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Ecuador - Peru - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
Participatory future visions of collaborative agroecological farmer-pastoralist systems in Tanzania
Agroecology is increasingly promoted as a way to create just and sustainable farm- and food systems. Although there are multiple initiatives to scale up agroecology, current socio-political structures often hinder its potential to transform food systems. This study uses participatory approaches to create paintings that envision agroecological futures in the...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023
Report part
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
Report part
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
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