This policy brief discusses ways to scale up agroecological approaches and suggests actionable advice tailored for various stakeholders, including policy-makers, private sector, financial partners, research and development community and civil society. The brief focuses on how to design scaling up initiatives and provides success as well as failure stories.

A collection of short examples of initiatives/projects related to new entrants into farming (mostly small scale)

The international community is beginning to recognize the integral role of urban agriculture in improving the economy, environment, and health of cities. The Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF) Foundation expects that by 2020, 85 percent of the poor in Latin America, and about 40 to 45...

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El establecimiento "La Aurora" se encuentra al sudeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires a 400 Km. de la capital Federal de la República Argentina, en una zona de producción mixta de ganadería y agricultura. Es de tipo familiar, con 650 Has, de las cuales 300 son de suelo agrícola,...

Organic farming in Austria has undergone various development phases, starting from the pioneer phase in the inter-war period and  a phase of institutionalisation between the 1970ies and the 1980ies when organic associations were founded and first regulations for the certification of organic products were established (Austrian Food Code). From the...

The Regional Meeting on Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean was successfully held in Brasilia, Brazil from 24 to 26 June 2015. It was organized jointly by FAO, the Ministry of Agrarian Development of Brazil, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Specialized Meeting on Family...

Fundația ADEPT Transilvania  is listed among the 1.000 worldwide cultural institutions on the Google Cultural Institute, which brings together millions of artifacts from multiple partners, with the stories that bring them to life, in a virtual museum

La agroecología es un nuevo paradigma de la producción agrícola que se empieza a extender en las diferentes regiones con vocación agrícola de Colombia, sin embargo, se hace necesario conocer en detalle las características de estos sistemas y su nivel de sostenibilidad. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la...

FAO Permanent Representatives of Australia, Chile, Kuwait, Japan, Libya, Russian Federation, USA, and the European Union are on a field visit to of Albania and Serbia this week. By visiting FAO project sites and talking with farmers, national officials, FAO partners, other UN agencies and FAO teams on the ground,...

Acting as a facilitator to enable debates and foster collaboration among a variety of actors in order to advance science, knowledge, public policies, programmes and experiences, FAO organized the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in September 2014 in Rome, Italy. The Symposium was followed by three...

The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific organized a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on Agroecology during the 24-26 November, 2016, in Bangkok. Following FAO's Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in September 2014, FAO acted as a facilitator to enable debates and foster collaborations among a variety of...

Various agro-ecological practices have existed in the region, primarily as an alternative to conventional chemical-intensive farming based on Green Revolution prescriptions. These alternatives are often directed at enhancing soil fertility, through organic matter management and water conservation. Throughout Asia and the Pacific, different terms are used for specific practices including:...

La agricultura familiar en Colombia está representada por campesinos, indígenas, afrocolombianos, pescadores, agricultores urbanos y neo-rurales que viven, en general, en condiciones de pobreza y abandono. Las políticas y programas rurales del país la subordinan y no existen criterios de política diferencial que reconozcan sus particularidades y potencien sus capacidades;...

Ahead of the negotiations, which are due to end on Friday, development agencies had hoped for the establishment of a work plan on agriculture that would pave the way for more concrete discussions on assistance for struggling small-scale farmers.

Climate change is a major challenge in Europe as well as globally with potential implications for issues including food security and environmental protection. As reflected in the priorities for the current period, EU rural development policy must play its part in contributing solutions. Rural areas and activities can be surprisingly...

Mapping the Local and Solidarity-based Partnerships in the Mediterranean Basin is an extremely challenging task: it means dealing with a new and rapidly growing field. To date, to the best of our knowledge, there is has been no study that deals specifically with local food systems in the area as...

La politique agricole commune (PAC) a été mise en place en 1962. Il s'agit d'une politique commune à tous les États membres de l’Union européenne (UE), gérée et financée grâce aux ressources du budget annuel de l’UE, dont la PAC représente près de 40%. Ses principaux objectifs sont d'améliorer la...

Efforts to rapidly increase on-farm biodiversity are a matter of urgency in an era of climate change. To do so, farmers need better access to the genetic material of research stations and gene banks. Collaboration with scientists who are willing and able to work together with family farmers is crucial....

Improving food safety and competitiveness in Georgia’s commercial dairy sector was the focus of the country's first National Dairy Congress, held this week in the capital Tbilisi. The event, organized by FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, drew around 150 participants, including commercial dairy farmers, processors, input and...