The LIVESEED project, which IFOAM Organics Europe co-cordinates, is contributing to the Organic World Congress (OWC) with a colourful program. Organised 8-10 September 2021 in Rennes, France, the Congress is an excellent opportunity to showcase the project’s results and recommendations.

Este sitio web da cuenta del alcance del proyecto Sembrando Capacidades, iniciativa de cooperación sur-sur trilateral, que buscó el fortalecimiento de instrumentos y políticas para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria en Colombia, a partir de la gestión del conocimiento y el intercambio de experiencias, presenta en este repositorio web todos los...

Ao longo das últimas décadas, a ASA e famílias de todo o Semiárido do Brasil desenvolveram e aprimoraram o método de construção das cisternas de placas. Esta cartilha tem como objetivo partilhar essa experiência na construção de cisternas, possibilitando que outros povos possam usufruir dessa tecnologia que mudou o cenário...

This article offers a well-argued and supported study synthesis in response to the issue, Why didn't AGRA's Green Revolution work in Mali? Is it feasible for African farmers to feed the continent? This is a must-read essay for anybody interested in the situation of Mali and the powerful farmers' movement...

Women farmers, especially female peasant and family farmers are pivotal to build back better food systems. 60% of the world’s food is produced by smallholders on 30% of the global agricultural surface. 50%-80% of this food, depending on the country and region, is produced by women.  SWISSAID and partners launched a qualitative...

This video tells the story of Sireesha - one of the thousands of women and men farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India, practicing agroecology in Farmer Field Schools facilitated by the Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming Programme and FAO. Through agroecology and FFS, Sireesha and her family improved their incomes; consume healthy and...

Action Aid International gathered stakeholders on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve agro-ecology and eco-restoration on the Gambia's south, middle, and north banks, with the goal of ensuring community resilience to climate change, achieving food security, climate justice, and comprehensive disaster prevention. The Agroecology, Eco-Restoration, and Resilience Building Project, according...

The digital hub ConectAgroecology is a meeting space for the members of the CPLP Agroecology Network and a tool to support the training of farmers, fishermen, and other food producers, technicians from public entities, and all people interested in developing knowledge and practices in agroecology. It is intended to contribute to the development of...

Training of Trainers: ''Introduction to Agroecology'' for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) This Training of Trainers is part of the activities of the Training Centre for Sustainable Family Farming (CCAFS) of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). As part of a broader work program of knowledge and capacity building, the main...

El presente trabajo de relevamiento y diagnóstico fue llevado a cabo por la Asociación Civil “Instituto de Intervenciones Situadas” (IN SITU) como iniciativa propia anexada a las acciones implementadas en el marco de un convenio con la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), la Universidad...

El proyecto *Sembrando Capacidades lo invita a participar en el evento virtual Presentación de resultados: Lineamientos de política pública para la agroecología en Colombia, que tiene como objetivo dar a conocer dos productos trabajados durante el desarrollo del proyecto: Algunos resultados del Mapeo de iniciativas y procesos de transición agroecológica...

Sustainable food and agriculture are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One of the ways of achieving Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and Better Life, leaving no one behind, is through agroecology. Agroecology helps ensure food and nutritional security, reduce poverty, mitigate climate change and restore...

IFOAM - Organics International and its Seeds Platform recognize initiatives worldwide seeking to create an alternative model of seed production. For all these experiences to be successful some common obstacles have to be overcome. There are farmers, breeders, institutions and civil society actors that are committed to producing seeds compatible...

We are at an important crossroads. The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate variability and extremes, conflict, and the persistence of hunger and malnutrition have shown us that now is the time for us to build more resilient agrifood systems. If we don’t, agrifood systems will not be able to ensure food...

This paper examines agroecology within Europe, its dynamics, its position within a broader politico-economic framework and its political significance. It argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture. In this respect, it has a strategically important...

En el ‘Sistema tradicional de la Chagras Amazónicas del medio Caquetá’ confluye una gran diversidad biológica, con variedad de grupos étnicos, quienes a través de la implementación de Chagras Amazónicas emulan los procesos de sucesión en los bosques, integrando los conocimientos sobre las plantas cultivadas, las tecnologías adaptadas a las...

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

The leader of the Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) programme Vijay Kumar explains the Social Capital side of the story, and how women’s groups were a central part of the success of CMNF, now recognised worldwide as a model of agricultural transformation. The CMNF initiative has mobilised over a million...

Muitas experiências de promoção da agroecologia no Brasil e no conjunto da América Latina estão baseadas em conhecimentos tradicionais sobre a produção agrícola em harmonia com a natureza, assim como no consumo de alimentos saudáveis que se apresentam de várias formas: nas refeições cotidianas, em festas e rituais, em determinadas...

Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing its environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many of the costs of harmful foods are externalized, i.e. are not reflected in market prices. At the...