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Book
Subtle Agroecologies: Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature

This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think...
2021 - Advances in Agroecology

Case study
Improving Slovenia’s organic production capacity

Slaughtering and processing on-farm to obtain high-quality organic lamb meat
Organically bred sheep and goats can play a key role in preserving the landscape and biodiversity in the steeper meadows and pastures in Zasavje, a picturesque valley in the Sava Hills in central Slovenia. However, local breeders were facing difficulties in selling their meat due to the low prices and...
Slovenia
2021 - European Network for Rural Development

Video
La importancia del maíz en la cultura mexicana

En el video la ponente habla sobre el maíz en la cultura mexicana, en el contexto del 29 de septiembre, Día Nacional del Maíz en México-
Mexico
2021 - Vía Orgánica AC

Technical paper
Introducción a la Agroecología Política

Es la intencionalidad de este libro es la de proporcionar un marco de análisis común para la acción colectiva agroecológica. Se trata de proporcionar los argumentos epistemológicos y teóricos que empujan hacia la construcción y desarrollo de este campo para tratar de hacer operativa la lucha por la sostenibilidad agraria...
2021 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants 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

Video
Jornada Día del Maíz. Conversatorio: Defensas de las variedades del Maíz Nativo

Un grupo de ponentes de Pro-Oaxaca, Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos y Huerto Roma Verde de México, hablan sobre el consumo sustentable y la defensa del maíz nativo. 
Mexico
2021 - Radio Iberoamericana, Puebla

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Ethiopia (Amharic)

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

Fact sheet
Municipality of Ghassate in Morocco

The commune of Ghassate, in the province of Ouarzazate, is involved in the agricultural transition of many farming families. The adoption and dissemination of agroecology practices have secured and developed agricultural activities that had been undermined by a very difficult geographical context. In market gardening, fruit growing, and animal husbandry, the families...
Morocco
2021 - CARI, Agrisud International

Blog article
New “rooftop farm” at FAO highlights how innovative technology can help safeguard agro-biodiversity

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today unveiled a prototype rooftop farm at its Rome headquarters, an initiative that highlights how innovative technology contributes to making agri-food systems more sustainable and to increasing access to healthy diets.The farm will help explore the potential of...
Italy
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Article
Identification of the agroclimatic suitability in the municipality of Fusagasuga (Cundinamarca) for pea crop (Pisum sativum L.), using participatory mapping

Pea crop is highly vulnerable to the negative impacts of variability and climate change, due to its socioeconomic and environmental marginality, as well as the poor use of technical tools such as agroclimatic information. Therefore, in order to understand the local pea growers perception of agroclimatic risk, a participatory mapping...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Book
Food Plants for Healthy Diets 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

Fact sheet
Dharamitra in India

The initiative is located in Central India, encompassing the Vidarbha District and the adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Dietary-based anemia is a widespread problem, especially amongst young women. The area is facing an acute agrarian crisis. One of its causes is climate change and the increasingly unpredictable monsoon...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)

Newsletter
Climate-smart agriculture - Solutions for resilient farming and forestry

The realities of a changing climate are increasingly affecting European farming and forestry. Climate-smart agriculture is an approach that can help farmers and foresters build resilience and adapt to the effects of climate change, and increase productivity and incomes in a sustainable way. Climate-smart practices can focus on ways to...
2021 - Eip Agri, Agriculture & Innovation

Guidelines
Organic farming practices

Organic farming works in harmony with nature. Since organic farmers don’t use synthetic fertilizers, GMOs, or pesticides, they have to fight insects, disease and weeds and grow abundant food with the help of other methods. What connects all organic farming practices is their ultimate goal: to build and improve the...
2021 - Rodale Institute

E-learning
Agroecología: Transición hacia sistemas alimentarios sostenibles

Este curso es un esfuerzo conjunto de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA), y pretende además ser un aporte para estimular el intercambio y la difusión de buenas prácticas de agroecología en el contexto del...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

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
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