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FAO Agroecology Newsletter #52
Agroecology Newsletter of October 2021.
The FAO Agroecology Newsletter presents a round-up of news, events, publications, stories, innovations, activities, and initiatives on agroecology from around the world.
2021
Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Development Network Newsletter - 5/2021
Romanian National Rural Development Network Newsletter - Topics include: EU AgriFish Council of 26-27 May, LIAISON project: EURIC; LAGs Good practices, Local Gastronomic Points, Training for LAGs and other topics.
Romania
2021 - Romanian National Rural Development Network
Blog article
Enhancing biodiversity through the belly: Agroecology comes alive in Chile
Agroecology has many faces and in order to scale up and remain a legitimate approach in bio-culturally diverse contexts such as Latin America, it has to keep the balance between science, practice, and social movements.
The power of local networks, including children; the deconstruction of colonial perceptions toward native foods and rural...
Chile
2021 - Mongabay
Blog article
Good cheese needs good companions: partnering to build zero-deforestation dairy supply chains in the Colombian Amazon
The department of Caquetá is part of the Amazon River basin and a strategic ecosystem for Colombia and the globe. Historically, it has been the region most affected by deforestation in the country due to the advancing of the agricultural frontier and the widespread presence of illicit crops. The region...
2021 - Solidaridad
Magazine article
Opinion: How agroecology can help food systems be more climate-resilient
Read the opinion piece by Maryline Darmaun, Fabio Leippert and Martin Herren, published on Devex as part of the Future of Food Systems series. The article addresses the question of how we can transform food systems and strengthen their resilience to increasing external shocks and changing conditions. The authors advocate...
2021
Manual
What is agroecology?
Concerns about chronic hunger, malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation have led to increased focus on the world’s food system in recent years, with various actors putting forward different plans to tackle these interconnected issues. In this context, interest in agroecology has grown significantly, and it is now...
2021 - TABLE Explainer
Video
Seedling Containers with Christof Bernau
UCSC Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau gives an overview of what to look for in seedling soil mix, and different types of containers for growing seedlings and how to choose which container is best for the needs of your seedlings.
2021 - UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology
Video
What is agroecology? (TABLE explainer video series)
This is the first of the TABLE explainer video series. These explainers are short, peer-reviewed introductions to concepts that are important for understanding food systems and food sustainability.
2021 - TABLE
Blog article
Empowering youth for agribusiness
‘The audacity of entrepreneurship: youth in action,’ (L'audace d'entreprendre : une jeunesse en action) – the title of his latest book – encapsulates the essence of Benin-based José Herbert Ahodode’s vision to promote youth entrepreneurship in agribusiness as a model to create sustainable rural employment and wealth in African countries...
2021 - Access Agriculture
Book
Mountain farming systems - seeds for the future: Sustainable agricultural practices for resilient mountain livelihoods
This publication presents a collection of case studies by Mountain Partnership (MP) members from around the world, highlighting experiences of agroecological mountain farming systems. It aims to increase attention toward agroecological principles and approaches and showcase their potential. The MP, the only United Nations global voluntary alliance dedicated to sustainable...
Armenia - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - China - India - Italy - Kyrgyzstan - Morocco - Nepal - Panama - Peru - Philippines - Portugal - Romania - Sierra Leone - Switzerland - Thailand - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2021 - FAO
Blog article
Agence Bio 2020 Barometer: What Are the Key Figures for Organic Farming in 2021?
Each year, the Agence BIO (public interest group in charge of the developmentand structuring of French organic agriculture) publishes its barometer. Published in July 2021, the latest report deals with the figures for organic farming in France and Europe.
2021
Blog article
Banana plant, soil and root ecology reveals sustainable routes to pest and disease control
All living organisms have enemies. EU-funded research has harnessed the enemies of banana plants’ enemies for a natural battle in which banana plants, people and the environment are all winners. Population growth and global climate change are putting tremendous pressure on our agricultural food chain, making it even more imperative to...
European Union
2021 - European Commission
Report
Co-creation of Agroecology Knowledge in Western Uganda
In light of the 10 elements of agroecology and the 13 agroecological principles adopted by the High-Level Group of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), the importance of rethinking the production of knowledge and its sharing, and include agroecological transition processes in participatory approaches, is today largely a consensus.
On paper, these principles seem fairly...
Uganda
2021 - Iles de Paix
Newsletter
Access Agriculture e-newsletter May 2021
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Event
Agroecology and the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems
Agroecology is not a new invention. It has already been applied for decades in family farmers’ practices and has guided both policymakers and grassroots social movements in various countries around the world. However, recent global discussions on agroecology across its three different dimensions, namely scientific discipline, agricultural practice and political-social...
2021 - Logo of ETH Zurich, World Food System Center
Policy brief/paper
Reaching the Farm to Fork objectives and beyond: Impacts of an agroecological Europe on land use, trade and global food security
This Policy Brief presents the key results of a study that analyses the implications of an ambitious agroecological transition across Europe, following the TYFA scenario. Published in 2018, what it proposes by 2050 is fully aligned with the objectives that the European Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies aim to achieve by...
2021 - IDDRI
Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #49
Agroecology Newsletter of July 2021.
The FAO Agroecology Newsletter presents a round-up of news, events, publications, stories, innovations, activities, and initiatives on agroecology from around the world.
2021
Blog article
Agriculture sans chemicals is giving Himachal farmers better and sustainable incomes
Natural Farming methods have significantly reduced the expenses incurred in the purchase of chemicals, insecticides, and fungicides and improved the incomes of farmers in the Himalayan state in India.
Himachal Pradesh which is popularly known as the fruit basket of India produces fruits and vegetables worth Rs 8,000 crores every year....
India
2021
Case study
The challenge of BEE-ing in a pandemic
Women are the new face of beekeeping in rural Georgia, helping keep a steady family income during COVID-19
With the COVID-19 crisis heavily affecting the economy in Georgia, decimating the tourism industry and sales of wine – a traditional product of Kakheti – many people of the region, who were more active in these sectors, have found themselves out of income. Families struggled to meet ends, and very...
Georgia
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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