This brief is for actors and organizations that seek to support agroecological transitions and enable the social transformations that are required for agroecology to thrive. It explains how Agroecological transitions are complex multi-scale processes that unfold in the communities and territories of food provisioners, and involve social, political, economic, ecological,...

As the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation, TP Organics' Organic Innovation Days provide a unique opportunity to meet members of TP Organics, network with EU stakeholders and decision-makers. The 2022 edition will take place as a physical event on 11-12 October in Belgium (at agricultural...

Growing, processing and transporting food accounts for one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, but just 3% of public climate finance goes to food systems. Untapped Opportunities: Climate Financing for Food Systems Transformation presents the case for food systems as a climate solution and priority, with recommendations for action. This includes the...

Welcome to the readers and users of this Barefoot Guide. We invite you on a journey through the farms, gardens, local markets and kitchens of Africa to learn about the unique, delicious and healthy foods and cultures that belong to this beautiful continent of ours. Many of you may be...

This report summarizes the findings of a literature review on women's management of terrestrial ecosystems in the Andes. This review was conducted with the purpose of characterizing the scientific knowledge, including gaps, which guide public policy and decision making regarding women's roles in the context of biodiversity and climate change. ...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French. The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...

This 6-week course aims at helping you discover what agroecology is, through the complexity of the various approaches that have emerged over the years and in various regions of the world, and through the ways, they can be implemented in the fields, and studied, as agricultural practices. The syllabus is designed...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.  The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...

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...