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Perspectives on Agroecology Transitions: Working Together for Agroecology Transitions

This brief is for actors and organizations that seek to support agroecological transitions and enable the social transformations that are required for agroecology to thrive. It explains how Agroecological transitions are complex multi-scale processes that unfold in the communities and territories of food provisioners, and involve social, political, economic, ecological,...
2022 - University of Vermont

Event
Organic Innovation Days

As the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation, TP Organics' Organic Innovation Days provide a unique opportunity to meet members of TP Organics, network with EU stakeholders and decision-makers. The 2022 edition will take place as a physical event on 11-12 October in Belgium (at agricultural...
Belgium
2022 - TP Organics

Report
UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITIES: Climate financing for food systems transformation

Growing, processing and transporting food accounts for one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, but just 3% of public climate finance goes to food systems. Untapped Opportunities: Climate Financing for Food Systems Transformation presents the case for food systems as a climate solution and priority, with recommendations for action. This includes the...
2022 - GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Blog article
Encouraging microorganisms that improve the soil

I learned from Ing. Abrahán Mujica how you can culture your own microorganisms, using some simple equipment and a few inexpensive ingredients. Abrahán showed me and a small group at his agroecology course that you can start by collecting some leaf litter. We gathered the leaves and topsoil from the...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2022 - Access Agriculture

Manual
My Food is African

Healthy soil, safe foods and diverse diets
Welcome to the readers and users of this Barefoot Guide. We invite you on a journey through the farms, gardens, local markets and kitchens of Africa to learn about the unique, delicious and healthy foods and cultures that belong to this beautiful continent of ours. Many of you may be...
2022 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Report
Women, Sustainable Ecosystem Management and Climate Change adaptation in the Andean region: A policy-oriented review

This report summarizes the findings of a literature review on women's management of terrestrial ecosystems in the Andes. This review was conducted with the purpose of characterizing the scientific knowledge, including gaps, which guide public policy and decision making regarding women's roles in the context of biodiversity and climate change. ...
2022 - Consorcio para el Desarrollo de la Ecorregión Andina

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Afghanistan

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French. The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...
Afghanistan
2022

E-learning
New Course 'Introduction to Agroecology'

This 6-week course aims at helping you discover what agroecology is, through the complexity of the various approaches that have emerged over the years and in various regions of the world, and through the ways, they can be implemented in the fields, and studied, as agricultural practices. The syllabus is designed...
France
2022 - Motpellier SupAgro academic team

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Angola

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.  The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...
Angola
2022

Article
Evidence on the multidimensional performance of agroecology in Mali using TAPE

In 2020, the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) was used in Mali to assess the status of the agroecological transition of local farms and to identify its correlation with farms' quantitative performance across the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability. This study aims to present the evidence on the multidimensional performance...
Mali
2022

Article
Development of tomatoes seedlings (Lycopersicum sculentum L.) in combination with silicate rock powder and rhizospheric fungi inoculation

Global agricultural production increasingly lacks technologies and alternatives for vegetable production without harming the environment, as well as for the recovery of degraded areas. In this regard, rhizo- spheric fungi promote plant growth and are widely used in agriculture. Stonemeal is a process that uses a large amount of rock...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Video
How I make Vermicompost

In this video, Nasira Habib shares her experience of making vermicompost in her garden. Vermicompost is a super compost. Worms turn your kitchen and other green waste into soil rich in nutrients and loaded with microorganisms that create and maintain healthy soil for us. Vermicomposting also helps us keep our...
Pakistan
2022 - Khoj – Society for People’s Education

Video
AE4EU Webinar - Development of agroecology in Italy & Greece - July 2022

On the 6th of July 2022, the second AE4EU mapping webinar took place covering the development of agroecology in Italy and Greece. Documenting and analyzing the development of agroecology in different countries and context is important to enhance the up- and out-scaling of agroecology at the European level. With an...
Greece - Italy
2022 - AE4EU - Agroecology for Europe

Blog article
Letter From The Farm | Looking Beyond The Farm Gate

We’re back on Ciasnocha Family Farm in Poland, where bad weather and the pressures of war in neighbouring Ukraine have made for a difficult season of haymaking. Mateusz and family like to look to the long term. But right now many decisions are on hold as they wait for the...
Poland
2022 - ARC2020

Project
Promoter 4 change: Building opportunity through innovation

In January 2022, SHI launched Promoter 4 Change, a farmer-to-farmer training program creating rural climate resilience, biodiversity, and new economic opportunities through sustainable farming practices. Sustainable Harvest International’s (SHI) new pilot project in Honduras offers an important and innovative solution to the region’s persistent issues of food insecurity and economic instability, two...
Honduras
2022 - Sustainable Harvest International

Video
Development of agroecology in Austria and Germany - Webinar 28/03/2022

Documenting and analyzing the development of agroecology in different countries and context is important to enhance and out-scaling of agroecology at the European level. Based on the AE4EU project (Agroecology for Europe https://www.ae4eu.eu), a mapping of agroecology in Austria and Germany in its different dimensions was achieved to provide an...
Austria - Germany
2022 - AE4EU - Agroecology for Europe

Video
AGRI challenge: organic farming

Andrea Battiata is an Italian organic farmer. He has developed an alternative type of farming, which restores nutrients to the soil, sequesters CO2, is more resilient to climate change, and mimics what happens in nature, particularly in forests. His CSA provides vegetables to 100 families. Watch his story.
European Union
2022 - EIP-AGRI Support Facility

Report
EcoSol-agroecology as resistance and alternative development: Insights from Latin American experiences

To expand agroecology depends on raising and stabilising incomes for small-scale producers through alternative markets that avoid profit-driven middlemen. Producers thereby retain more of the value that they add, build closer relationships with consumers, and offer nutritious food at relatively low prices. An agroecology agenda should ''Ensure proximity and confidence...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil
2022 - AgroEcos Project,

Video
AGRI challenge: biodiversity

Ana Paula Gama is a Portuguese fruit producer, who joined the Operational Group 'PoliMax' to promote and increase the efficiency of insect pollination in apple, pear and cherry trees. It helped her a lot.
European Union
2022 - EIP-AGRI Support Facility

Book
Agroecological Multitudes - a book on ''agroecological experiences'' by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Agroecological Multitudes seeks to foster political imagination and sociological creativity in order to continue thinking about the difficult but urgent process towards paving conditions for civilizational transitions and post-capitalist transformations, in a context of imminent collapse of the hegemonically instituted system. The book shows how a multitude of agroecological processes...
2022 - Universidad nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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