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Article de revue spécialisée
The Evolution of the Romanian Organic Agriculture in a Global Context
Organic agriculture is widely considered an agricultural method that aims to produce food products by turning to natural processes and substances, limiting, in the same time, the impact on the environment. In the last period, there has been an evident growing trend in consumers’ preference for organic food products, that...
Romania
2024 - Rural Development Research Platform
Article
Two Women Q Graders Helping Producers Making Better Coffee
The journey of coffee from farm to cup involves numerous intricate steps, each crucial in determining the quality and price of the final product. At the heart of this process is the grading and pricing of green coffee, a task undertaken by professionals known as Q Graders. Anete Dinne, a...
Mexico
2024 - Slow Food
Article
Gouvernance des mécanismes fonctionnels d’une innovation agroécologique : cas de la production de biopesticides au Cameroun
La production de biopesticides pour l’agriculture est une innovation agroécologique qui répond à la nécessité de réduire, d’une part, les externalités négatives de l’utilisation des pesticides chimiques sur la santé et l’environnement, et d’autre part, la dépendance aux aléas du commerce international, surtout dans les pays en développement. Dans ce...
Cameroon
2024 - CIRAD
Article
Heritage, Sustainability, and Coffee Drying in the Philippines’ Cordillera mountains
Born and raised amidst the lush landscapes of the mountain provinces of the Philipines, Daniel Jason Maches and Jaymar Garcia, two Indigenous youth, have always been connected to the land. They’ve witnessed their parents tend to the earth, cultivating crops that sustained their families for generations.
Philippines
2024 - Slow Food
Document technique
Seeds of Sovereignty: Contesting the Politics of Food
We all need to eat to live, but the issue of a regular supply of affordable, quality food is often absent from policy debates. Food seems secondary to the major political issues of the day. Yet in the face of ecological collapse, nuclear threat and global economic disintegration, this dossier,...
2024 - Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Vidéos
Série de témoignages d’experts sur le thème “Transformer les agricultures : le défi du financement”
Dans le prolongement de la dernière conférence internationale de FARM du 13 février 2024 sur le thème “Transformer les agricultures : le défi du financement”, la fondation propose une série de témoignages d’experts de ces questions.
“Pourquoi et comment financer les exploitations familiales ?” à travers le témoignage de Jyotsna Puri,...
2024 - Fondation pour l'Agriculture et la Ruralité dans le Monde (FARM)
Article
Pour une gestion durable des sols en Afrique subsaharienne
La faible productivité de l’agriculture en Afrique subsaharienne est due en grande partie à la dégradation de la fertilité des sols. Les agricultures familiales, pilier de la sécurité alimentaire de cette grande région, doivent relever le défi de la restauration et du maintien de la capacité productive des terres. Les...
2024 - CIRAD
Article de blog
Young Kenyan Farmers Revolutionizing Agriculture through Regenerative Practices
Regenerative agriculture consists of nature-based farming practices such as inter-cropping, crop rotation, cover cropping, planting indigenous seeds, minimal or no tillage, organic farming, and agroforestry.
2024
Pratiques
12 Best Agroecological Practices
For over 25 years, PELUM Kenya has been in the fore front advocating for Good Agro-ecological practices. This is in a bid to ensure that the message on the benefits of Agro-ecology, are known far and wide, across Kenya and beyond. This publication is a result of research and collaborationsbetween...
2024 - Pelum Kenya
Article de revue spécialisée
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India
The Andhra Pradesh Zero Budget Natural Farming project was implemented by India’s State of Andhra Pradesh in 2016 and renamed AP Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) in 2020. APCNF is recognised as a sucessful example of peasant-led agroecology by social movements, multilateral UN bodies, governments, and researchers. We offer more...
India
2024 - Kudali Learning Center, India
Rapport
Agroecological Intelligence: Establishing criteria for agroecologically appropriate technology
Final report
Farmers have been innovating since before it was called innovation. For much of that time, innovation in agricultural systems and practices has been built around – and worked within – ecosystem boundaries. As the pace of technological development has sped up, the goals of innovation have become increasingly more controlling,...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2024 - A Bigger Conversation
Article de revue
Cultivos de Servicios: evaluación de productividad y consumo hídrico de diferentes especies
A partir de la década del 90, en la región pampeana las áreas asignadas a diferentes actividades han variado reduciéndose la superficie de pasturas e incrementándose las áreas agrícolas, fundamentalmente con el cultivo de soja (Scianca et al., 2008). Esto causó una marcada degradación de los suelos regionales, evidenciada principalmente...
Argentina
2024 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Vidéos
Women’s Heritage – Nurturing Roots
In an NSP initiative, three captivating videos on the theme "Women and Agroecology" have been produced. These compelling videos shine a spotlight on the pivotal role of women in shaping sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting their knowledge, organizational leadership, and rich cultural heritage in the agricultural sector. The third instalment of...
Brazil
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Agroecological transition: Towards a better understanding of the impact of ecology-based farming practices on soil microbial ecotoxicology
Alternative farming systems have developed since the beginning of industrial agriculture. Organic, biodynamic, conservation farming, agroecology and permaculture, all share a grounding in ecological concepts and a belief that farmers should work with nature rather than damage it. As ecology-based agricultures rely greatly on soil organisms to perform the functions...
2024
Article de blog
New metrics and frameworks for an agroecological future
Our food systems are broken. The good news is that we know what to do about it, and we have for a long time. The Limits of Growth, published in 1972 by the Club of Rome, described the Green Revolution as a technological solution to the world’s food problems, overlooking its...
2024 - Siani
Article de blog
Food security: discovery of a gene for immunity against a disease that ravages rice and wheat crops
The fungus Magnaporthe oryzae ravages rice and wheat crops and poses a formidable threat to human food on a global scale. Researchers from INRAE, CIRAD and the Université de Montpellier, together with the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre (HHRRC) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have discovered a gene...
2024 - INRAE
Fiche d'information
Ultra-processed food in Africa Implications for just agroecological transitions of food and agriculture systems
In this series focusing on ultra-processed food (UPF) on the African continent, the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) explore the impacts of shifting dietary patterns, with increasing reliance on low-cost, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) globally, and in Africa in particular, in the context of an urgent call for a just, agroecological...
2024 - The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
Manuel
Young changemakers
Scaling agroecology using video in Africa and India
The publication offers a rich diversity of perspectives and insights from real-life experiences of 42 inspiring teams of youths in Africa and India who are blazing a trail as private extension and advisory service providers promoting agroecology through farmer-to-farmer learning videos. Each of the deeply compelling stories presented in this...
Benin - Cameroon - Egypt - India - Kenya - Malawi - Morocco - Rwanda - Senegal - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2024 - Access Agriculture
Ouvrage
African Perspectives on Agroecology
Why farmer-led seed and knowledge systems matter
Seed embodies life, power, and culture. From Africa’s deserts and drylands to its mighty river systems and tropical forests, from those growing a multiplicity of grains, legumes, and vegetables, to others struggling to produce enough to feed their families, seed provides the mainstay for the continent’s 500 million small-scale farmers...
2024
Audio
Growing greener commodities - one district at a time
Research by the Center of International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) shows promising results from taking a jurisdictional approach to increasing the sustainability of palm oil plantations in four districts/regencies in Indonesia: Pulang Pisau (Central Kalimantan Province), Kutai Kartanegara (East Kalimantan Province), Pelalawan (Riau Province), and Sintang (West Kalimantan...
Indonesia
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
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