Soma de inovação e tradição em prol do meio ambiente, de relações justas no trabalho e de qualidade de vida para todos,  a produção de alimentos orgânicos no Brasil tem tudo para colher ótimos resultados em 2017. Segundo levantamento feito pela Coordenação de Agroecologia (Coagre) da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário...

For over a decade ActionAid Mozambique (AAMoz) has worked with strategic partner organisations in the south and north-east of the country to promote agroecology initiatives with 80 farmers’ associations consisting of over 8000 farmers. 96% of the members are women and 30% of them young people, cultivating an average of...

A agricultura familiar é um importante segmento para o desenvolvimento do Brasil. São aproximadamente 4,4 milhões de famílias agricultoras, o que representa 84% dos estabelecimentos rurais brasileiros. A agricultura familiar é econômica, vem dela 38% do valor bruto da produção agropecuária e o setor responde por sete em cada dez postos...

Access to agricultural land has become a major issue throughout Europe - we are witnessing loss of land, land degradation, land concentration, land price increases and speculation. Yet the growing demand for local, fair and organic food cannot be met without the land and the committed farmers. Community Supported Agriculture has...

Este livro retrata um pouco da história, dos percalços e das conquistas que marcaram o processo de construção da Política Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica no Brasil (Pnapo) – uma política que nasceu das demandas e iniciativas da sociedade civil organizada e foi sendo construída aos poucos, de forma...

A coletânea de artigos que compõe a presente publicação tem origem no projeto desenvolvido pelo Observatório de Políticas Públicas para a Agricultura (Oppa)2 em conjunto com o Núcleo de Estudos sobre Agricultura e Desenvolvimento (Nead) do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário (MDA),3 que contou com apoio da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Agricultura...

The video provides a brief summary about the First Symposium on Agroecology and Family Farming that took place in Santiago (Chile). Organized by the Institute of Agricultural Development (INDAP, for its Spanish acronym) and FAO's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Symposium brought together agroecological practitioners, representants from...

El concepto de cadena agroalimentaria se utiliza para describir un sistema que agrupa actores económicos y sociales interrelacionados, y que participan articuladamente en actividades que agregan valor a un bien o servicio, desde su producción hasta que este llega a los consumidores, incluidos los proveedores de insumos y servicios, transformación,...

A national association of cheese eaters and producers established to support the development of solidarity between urban and rural people, and to encourage the settlement of small farmers and artisans in rural Lithuania. Viva sol has started a farmers’ market in Vilnius, a box scheme, environmental training and activities to support...

Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs...

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...

In the world of agriculture, all too often we stop cultivating a vegetable or raising an animal breed simply because they are not profitable enough. The economic market is oriented to maximizing yields at all costs, concentrating on a small selection of the most “productive” species. Though it may warrant...

Around the year 2010, the research field of “transition studies” was gaining increasing attention and was developing into a true research community with the advent of the “Sustainability Transitions Research Network” (STRN), the organisation of annual international sustainability transition (IST) conferences, and the launch of a scientific journal, named “Environmental...

The profile features farmers in New Zealand who came to the idea of regenerative agriculture due to an awareness of the ecological limits being breached by New Zealand agriculture. They believe that while farming is responsible for many of the environmental problems faced by their country, they also believe that better...

A cartilha técnica sobre agroecologia apresenta o que é o sistema, traz informações e conceitos da atividade e ensina o passo a passo das práticas, além de orientar o agricultor sobre como ter acesso a essa política pública. O agricultor vai aprender a como produzir biofertilizante natural e adubos orgânicos,...

This publication is a Technical report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European policymaking process. This report is based on the results of the project ‘National policy instruments and EU approximation process: Effects on...

China is a large country with diverse agro-ecosystems and numerous different agricultural production systems. These agricultural systems are managed by more than 200 million households who provide agricultural products to meet the needs of almost a fifth of mankind. Agriculture plays numerous key functions, including not only the provision of food...

Este resumo apresenta os principais resultados de um estudo sobre políticas públicas a favor da agroecologia na América Latina e Caribe e seus principais efeitos em escala nacional, regional ou territorial. A pesquisa foi realizada entre 2015 e 2016 pela Rede Políticas Públicas e Desenvolvimento Rural na América Latina

A number of organisations made submissions to the CAP consultation, which closed last week. Here we outline three differing ones  – one from public health, one from farming  and one, which we devote more space to, from a platform bringing a number of organisations together in Germany.

Floods, landslides, drought, storms, earthquakes and forest fires . . . Bosnia and Herzegovina is prone to natural disasters that hurt agriculture. Supported by the Swiss Government, FAO organized a conference here today on “Post-Disaster Needs Assessment Guidelines,” presenting findings and recommendations for improving current methodologies for assessing damages and...