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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

El efecto pandémico de la covid-19 recrudeció un extenso marco de flagelos anteriores, entre ellos, la vulneración a uno de los derechos más elementales y constitutivos de nuestra condición humana: el derecho a la alimentación. En este contexto, desde el Área de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario...

Food security is one of a human being’s most basic needs, and the threat of food insecurity causes primal anxiety. Food insecurity is among the main causes of climate-related migration and, in turn, one of the main causes of the growing insecurity of nations. With these vulnerabilities so raw, it’s no...

Earlier this summer, renowned Georgian chef Guram Baghdoshvili prepared khinkali – a traditional Georgian meat-filled dumpling – on an Instagram live hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and FAO. As Baghdoshvili took viewers through the steps – rolling out the dough, mixing the filling, shaping the dumpling just so to prevent...

Este trabajo presenta una aproximación crítica al concepto de responsabilidad social empresarial a partir de un cuestionamiento del impacto socio-ecológico de las empresas transnacionales en Latinoamérica. Se postula como hipótesis que sólo un enfoque radical de la responsabilidad social empresarial tiene potencial para contribuir a la realización de los derechos...

Objetivo. Evaluar agronómica y fisiológicamente el desarrollo de cultivares de lechuga en condiciones protegidas. Materiales y métodos. Bajo un diseño en bloques completamente al azar se evaluó el crecimiento, las características agronómicas y fisiológicas de cinco cultivares de lechuga en dos sistemas de agricultura protegida y en condiciones de campo...

Agroecology has been recognized as a paradigm that can offer multiple ecological and socio-economic benefits. In many developing countries, the promotion of agroecology is facilitated by intermediary organizations such as Farmers’ Organizations (FOs). Detailed studies on how FOs support their farmers in the adoption of agroecology innovations are still scarce,...

Humanity may be on the verge of a scary new world where antibiotics no longer work. An infected wound, for example from a scratch on a rusty nail, could be potentially fatal. Surgery would become much riskier. Common diseases such as tuberculosis would once more threaten the lives of millions....

The digital revolution occurring across global food systems has become undeniable. From robotic tractors and spraying drones to fully integrated data-driven strategies to manage food value chains, a host of new digital technologies are now being sold as the solution to tackle a growing population, climate change and the depletion...

“Detrás del humo”: el documental de la UNR sobre la quema en las islas El trabajo 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. “Ahí está Rosario, pero no se ve...