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...

A vast wealth of knowledge about crops, nutrition, medicines, biodiversity, ecosystems, climate change and more, is on the verge of being lost to Africa forever, just when it is most needed. Over millennia, women in most African traditions have played a central role in selecting, storing, and enhancing the diversity...

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...

Born in a rural Bedouin community in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, Yasmina Atta grew up in a culture that heavily restricts the roles of women. Undeterred by this oppression, she started to support young women in claiming their rights and becoming relevant economic and political actors.

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...

 En Côte d’Ivoire, au moment où l’industrie prend le train de l’engrais chimique, l’agriculture familiale amorce une diversification de ses stratégies de fertilisation, vers des intrants de plus en plus biologiques. Une innovation naît notamment dans les années 2000, prenant une ampleur considérable dans les années 2010 : la fertilisation...

During the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO headquarters in Rome on 18 and 19 September 2014, stakeholders representing governments, civil society, science and academia, the private sector, and the UN system gathered to discuss the contribution of agroecology to sustainable food systems. The...

La hausse des prix alimentaires au Sénégal était telle que les Sénégalais ne pouvaient même pas acheter des produits de base car tout était importé. Sans accès à des semences de bonne qualité, ils ne pouvaient pas produire leur propre nourriture. Un projet visant à cultiver des semences de meilleure...

El INTA promueve la agroecología como sistema de producción alternativo al modelo convencional de monocultivo, la diversidad es su eje central. Maximiliano Pérez, Licenciado en Biología e investigador del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Agricultura Familiar de la Región Pampeana (IPAF) del INTA, afirmó que “la agroecología pone...

The biggest challenge we face now is the limited awareness of ecological practices and lack of land for smallholders. We are very much against the current push for hybrids and GMOs and the dependence that comes with them. Thus we call upon our government to declare Tanzania free of such...

Fundatia ADEPT has been working since 2004 to protect the nature-rich, farmed landscapes of Transylvania, and to support the traditional farming communities who have created them over centuries and who maintain them today. ADEPT’s aim is to give these landscapes and communities an economic future and relevance in the 21st...

Agricultural production systems that provide environmental public goods, such as High Nature Value (HNV) farming, are in decline in most EU Member States. The principal drivers of this decline are various socio-economic forces that originate from both within the agricultural sector and the wider rural economy. These pressures are likely...

“Agroecology offers win-win solutions: increased productivity, improved resilience and more efficient use of natural resources” said José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations during the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food and Nutrition Security in Rome, hosted by FAO in 2014. The...

In 2007 our planet reached a remarkable milestone, with the world urban population overtaking the number of people living in the countryside. In Europe 68% of the population already live in urban areas. Scientists predict that as the world population increases (with estimates suggesting it is likely to reach 10...

Trata-se de um provérbio árabe, um paradigma entre o estacionário e o evolutivo. Os cães podem latir para qualquer coisa, inclusive para destilar o ódio, como ocorre atualmente. A caravana moderna é uma marcha, pouco divulgada no país, mas que tem por trás, cinco milhões de pessoas atendidas pelas políticas...

All of the stress factors in the regionhave an impact on the ability of ordinary people to find healthy food at decent prices. So we have gathered a few big ideas that are being harnessed in the Middle East region to address these challenges and increase our resilience amidst one of the most...

The development of agriculture in nowadays circumstances cannot be merely assessed from the perspective of agriculture as a main branch of national economy, but further from a social point of view which is highly significant as it represents the traditional small farm households which provide the basic necessaries for the rural population...

 Women in Asia are, in most cases, the farmers. But more than that, they are concerned about the nutrition of their families. There are actually more women interested in the models of agriculture that support diversity and nutrition. There are many cases of women who are fighting for land, particularly...

Women from small and marginal farming families doing SRI have been making the news in India for their adoption of a new approach that challenges the age-old beliefs and practices of rice farming. However, rarely one comes across mention of the impact of SRI on their wellbeing and their bodies.  ...

中国LEISA的问题是对营养和饥饿的难题. 在世界上有十多亿没有食品的人, 也有光景两十多亿的胖人. 怎么调剂一个这样的情况? 谁应该行动起来?他们应该采取什么样的办法? 中国LEISA找这些问题的回答和解决办法.