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Fact sheet
Voluntary Association of Agricultural General Development Health and Reconstruction Alliance in India

The mission of the Voluntary Association of Agricultural General Development Health and Reconstruction Alliance in India (VAAGDHARA) is to create and nurture vibrant institutions of poor and tribal peoples in Western India so that they have sustainable livelihoods through scientific, indigenous and appropriate knowledge and technologies and their children are well educated...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)

Book
Caderneta agroecológica : o saber e o fazer das mulheres do campo, das florestas e das águas

Dizem que uma mulher que lê é uma mulher perigosa. O que dizer, então, de mulheres que escrevem? E que escrevem não apenas textos, livros, mas a própria história? Não importa se essa história é escrita de forma tradicional, com palavras, frases, referências bibliográficas, ou se é escrita no dia...
Brazil
2021 - Centro Tecnologias Alternativas

Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root and Seed Crops in Ethiopia

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...
Ethiopia
2021

Conference/Meeting
Building farmers capacity in the context of urbanization - Political pedagogies for urban agroecology

Farmer-to-farmer learning is a pillar of the food sovereignty and agroecology movements, enabling territorially-specific learning and alliance-building to support farmers’ livelihoods and broader socio-political transformations. Most accounts of experiences in this field are based on rural contexts and rural farm models. However, the broadening food sovereignty and agroecology movement is...
2021 - Urbanising in place project

Book
Potentially Important Leafy Greens and Vegetables in Ethiopia

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...
Ethiopia
2021

Conference/Meeting
Localized Routes to Market - Understanding the Community Benefits of Local Organic Food

One of our food system's main challenges is the inadequate relationship between the cost of production and production factors as a whole. Therefore, food production and distribution systems are often at a disadvantage to local producers. New research reveals the benefits for farmers and growers, local suppliers, citizens, and the environment...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2021 - New Economics Foundation (NEF), Growing Communities, Soil Association

Book
Fruits and Nuts of Ethiopia

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...
Ethiopia
2021

Article
Niyat, change with a woman’s face

Niyat innovative project is financed by European Union, supported and monitored by Slow Food and implemented by Fundación Gran Chaco with its team of professionals. One of its axes is the production of food to cover the basic needs of families as well as trying to have surpluses that can be marketed and improve their livelihoods.
The food component of the Niyat project currently reaches about 40 families and will reach 120 in the next two years. Each family is a multiplying nucleus that aims to reach 2,400 families in total through trainings carried out in different formats.    
Argentina
2021 - Slow Food

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Guinea-Conakry

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...
Guinea
2021

Working paper
Food system impacts on biodiversity loss: Three levers for food system transformation in support of nature

This paper explores the role of the global food system as the principal driver of accelerating biodiversity loss. It explains how food production is degrading or destroying natural habitats and contributing to species extinction. The paper outlines the challenges and trade-offs involved in redesigning food systems to restore biodiversity, prevent...
2021 - Energy, Environment and Resources Programme

Case study
Programa Prohuerta Haití. Contribución a una alimentación saludable y al cuidado medioambiental mediante actividades de capacitación para la aplicación de prácticas agroecológicas en huertas y granjas, en los ámbitos familiar, escolar y comunitario

Serie "Banco de buenas prácticas. Experiencias exitosas en cooperación horizontal"
El programa colabora a la seguridad alimentaria, dirigida a la producción agroecológica en pequeñas escala de alimentos frescos. Se brinda capacitación y asistencia técnica continua para el establecimiento de huertas y granjas, mediante una red de promotores locales de voluntarias femeninas; se beneficia a familias y organizaciones de productores en...
Haiti
2021 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)

Video
Pulicaro: a sustainable ecosystem

The Pulicaro farm is located in Tuscia Viterbese, between Orvieto and Lake Bolsena, Italy. It occupies an area of 33 hectares divided between forest and farmland associated with poultry and livestock. It is an integrated management system designed to manage many aspects. It focuses on agroecology, intercropping and sustainable practices...
Israel
2021 - Pulicaro Farm

Magazine article
Presentamos y compartimos el libro: “Sistema integrado de producciones agroecológicas. Aportes para el manejo de la transición en agroecosistemas extensivos”

Este artículo habla del libro lanzado, una obra que reúne los resultados de un equipo de trabajo abocado a mejorar la sustentabilidad de los sistemas agroalimentarios.  Orientados a buscar soluciones para sistemas extensivos y transiciones agroecológicas
Argentina
2021 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias

Book
Livestock Policy

The book shows that beyond the great bioclimatic, agroecological and socio-economic differences between the livestock farming contexts on a global scale and the diversity of livestock farming practices, there are striking similarities in the dynamics of livestock farming over the long term, similarities that partly result from public policies. It brings...
2021 - Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD)

Video
Núcleos de Aprendizaje Participativo: lecciones a tres años de su implementación

En el marco del 2º Congreso Chileno de Agroecología, Emiliano González, extensionista del programa Manejo Territorial de Insectos (MTI), presentó la ponencia "Núcleos de Aprendizaje Participativo: lecciones a tres de su implementación en la región de Valparaíso"; relato que da cuenta sobre la conformación de una red colaborativa y de...
Chile
2021 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura

Article
Estudios previo inversionistas para la producción de furfural-etanol y tableros a partir de bagazo de caña de azúcar

En la actualidad, aprovechar instalaciones en la industria para modificar, reanimar o reconvertir sus producciones, resulta importante para la disminución de costos inversionistas y el incremento de ladisponibilidad de las plantas. En este sentido, la investigación tiene como objetivo realizar un estudio previo inversionista, en un complejo azucarero con plantas...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Video
Captura de Carbono en producción de frutales caducos bajo manejo agroecológico y convencional

En el marco del 2º Congreso Chileno de Agroecología, la Dra. Isabel González, coordinadora científica de centro Ceres, presentó la ponencia "Captura de Carbono en sistemas de producción de frutales bajo manejo agroecológico y convencional en Chile Central", estudio que buscó comprobar la hipótesis de que el manejo agroecológico aumenta...
Chile
2021 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura

Technical paper
Action Plan for the development of EU organic production

The EESC recognises the role of organic farming in achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal and sees this action plan for the development of organic production as a solid basis for developing the organic sector in a sustainable manner. It supports in particular the Commission's market-oriented approach to...
European Union
2021 - European Union

Fact sheet
Renuka Bio Farms in India

The initiative is located in the Chittoor district in the Rayalaseema region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With a tropical climate, Chittoor is one of the most drought prone districts in the country, a problem exacerbated by depletion of natural resources, global warming, increasing population pressure, pollution, loss...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)

Blog article
For Kenyan farmers, organic fertilizer bokashi brings the land back to life

Farmers in Kenya’s arid Tharaka Nithi county are growing fresh vegetables thanks to the use of an organic fertilizer known as bokashi. Made from a mix of farmyard waste, bokashi adds both nutrients and microorganisms to the soil, unlike chemical fertilizers that add only nutrients that are quickly consumed or washed...
Kenya
2021
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