Field tested practices, methodologies and approaches to regenerating agriculture and associated ecosystems are featured in this compilation . Mostly experiences from across Asia are included , the compilation is based on publications generated through participatory writeshops, organised over thirty years featuring a wide range of stakeholders, disciplines and donors. Participatory...

Em meio a uma profunda crise ampliada pela COVID-19 e com o retorno do Brasil ao mapa da fome, para qualquer região que você olhe há movimentos populares do campo e da cidade criando redes de solidariedade e de comercialização para garantir comida de verdade na mesa dos brasileiros. Se...

El 15 de agosto de 2021, la Federación Agraria Argentinaa (FAA) cumplió 109 años de vida. En la semana del aniversario, elaboró, publicó y difundió a través de sus redes y medios de comunicación, informes, artículos de opinión (escritos por los integrantes del Consejo Directivo Central de la entidad y...

En Colombia se cultivan alrededor de siete materiales regionales en monocultivo y ocasionalmente en asocio, el ciclo es anual y sin estacionalidad de siembra, lo que permite cosechar durante todo el año. La producción es baja con rendimientos que varían entre 7 y 13 t ha-1 y se presentan problemas...

Encuentre en este documento una propuesta de lineamientos de política pública para la agroecología en Colombia.  Este fue elaborado a partir de la recopilación y análisis de los productos y memorias de diversos encuentros, talleres y seminarios alrededor de la agroecología, retroalimentada con la experiencia de Brasil, referente en este aspecto para América Latina y el Caribe. 

This family agroecological initiative is led and inspired by the feminist farmer Fátima Maria dos Santos, coordinator of the Agroecological and Solidarity Markets Network of the State of Ceará. It supports egalitarian gender relations and promotes solidarity within socially integrated agricultural systems. The initiative is situated in the Jenipapo community, in...

Soils are the foundation of our terrestrial ecosystems and soil health is crucial to global food production. In this short video interview with Marc-André Selosse, botanist and mycologist, professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, let's discover this complex underground ecosystem on which we depend to feed...

The EU's recently launched Organic Action Plan sets ambitious goals to boost organic food production and raise organic farming in Europe to 25% of all farmland by 2030. The Action Plan will benefit the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and contribute significantly to achieving the EU's goals set out in the...

This fact sheet presents a family agroecosystem, located in the community of Enjeitado in the Sertão do Pajeù in Brazil – the most populous semi-arid region in the world. Sabià Agroecological Development Center Initiative is a family agroecosystem focused on the recovery of soil fertility in the Caatinga area. The agroecosystem...

El curso Agroecología: transición hacia sistemas alimentarios sostenibles 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), queriendo hacer un aporte para estimular el intercambio y promoción de los principios y enfoques agroecológicos  en el...

The negative impact of industrial livestock farming on animal health and welfare, but also on human health, ecosystems and the environment is indisputable and no longer needs to be demonstrated. Agroecology, on the other hand, makes it possible to reconfigure livestock systems and reintegrate them into agro-ecosystems in order to...

This initiative is taking place in the Agreste da Borborema region and is led by the Oziel Pereira community. Their aim is to use the role of collective action mechanisms in the agroecological transition at the community level. The Agreste da Borborema is a region marked by high levels of rural...

Diversifying on-farm incomes insures greater financial independence and value addition opportunities and enable farmers to respond to demand from consumers. In this short video interview with Olivier Lefebvre, economist and co-founder of Perma-projects, let's discover how economic diversification strengthens ecological and socio-economic resilience of farmers and farming systems in Europe....

Problem In protected vegetable systems of the Mediterranean area, having bare soil for several weeks in late summer, post cash crop harvest, may induce soil degradation. Providing a soil cover in any period is key to preserve the soil's biological activity and maintain good agronomic conditions (e.g. soil structure) for the...

Una noche de 2012, en una reunión a la que asistían alrededor de quince socios de la filial Arequito (provincia de Santa Fe) de la Federación Agraria Argentina, surgió entre los presentes una idea, a partir de una necesidad. Muchas familias de la zona requerían una solución porque hacían animales...

This study, in collaboration with the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), provides an overview of the current state of sustainable agriculture practices and systems (SAPSs) in India. It aims to help policymakers, administrators, philanthropists, and others contribute to an evidence-based scale-up of SAPSs, which represent a vital alternative to conventional,...

Este número de LEISA revista de agroecología –que traduce del inglés artículos publicados previamente en Farming Matters 36(1)– pone de relieve cómo perspectivas como el feminismo interseccional y las cosmologías indígenas, junto con la agroecología, han estado transformando nuestra economía y nuestra sociedad. Estos conocimientos proporcionan lecciones pertinentes para la...

Climate change and sustainable development are strongly linked. The poor and least developed countries are the most vulnerable, and will be most adversely affected and also the least able to cope with the impacts of climate-related disasters. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 – Climate Action – aims...

Food insecurity is deeply intertwined with health and economic disparities, as an underlying factor in risk for COVID-19 and as an effect of the economic crisis the pandemic has triggered. Pre-existing health inequities and an increased risk of job loss or loss of income mean that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous...

El proyecto Sembrando Capacidades, iniciado en noviembre de 2019 y finalizado en dciembre 2021 en el marco de la cooperación sur-sur trilateral entre Brasil, Colombia y FAO, buscó fortalecer políticas e instrumentos que impulsen la rentabilidad y sostenibilidad del campo colombiano, con especial énfasis en la producción proveniente de la...