La plataforma web de la Asociación Nacional de Productores Ecológicos del Perú (ANPE), es un espacio que se renueva con la clara intención de seguir informando sobre las actividades de los productores que día a día luchan para seguir adelante y los proyectos que se emprenden como institución tanto a...

Converting to an organic farming system or developing one further, can present major challenges for conventional producers who lack basic or advanced information about agro-ecological practices, or who do not understand the value of such practices. This often creates a barrier to potential new converts, or for the up-take of...

天津田园派CSA农场，位于天津蓟县，是一家实践社区支持农业（Community Support Agriculture，简称CSA）的生态农场，只有7亩地。发起人高源、小沈夫妻俩在天津市区都有各自的全职工作，他们把大量业余时间投入到农场运作当中，和蓟县礼明庄村的农户静霞合作，在这小小地块上种植生态蔬菜和杂粮，分享给天津城区20多户会员家庭。在小编探访过的众多推崇CSA理念的农场中，田园派是极少见的、真正由城市“草根”消费者发起、并且由消费者和农户共同协作管理的一个特例。本文来自有机会——中国有机生活第一平台.

Agriculture is a devolved power in all 3 cases in the UK (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland); English agricultural matters are run by an England-only administration (Defra) but under the control of UK Ministers and the UK parliament. The environment is similarly devolved, but habitat conservation status for Article 17...

In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. The video is embedded below and a full transcript of the talk is available here. Being part of the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (host of the debate),...

Declining soil fertility, escalating costs of farm inputs and lack of capacity are persistent problems that farmers in eastern Africa continue to grapple with. Such factors have resulted in high levels of poverty and food insecurity due to poor performance of the agriculture sector. Climate change adds a big blow...

La declaración final del V Encuentro Internacional de Agroecología, Agricultura Sostenible y Cooperativismo, que culminó este 27 de noviembre en La Habana, estimó como estratégico la continuidad de las relaciones intergeneracionales, con énfasis en la formación vocacional de los niños y adolescentes. En el documento, se manifiesta también la preocupación ante...

Dans cet ouvrage, le Groupe de Travail Désertification propose une démarche s’appuyant sur les principes de l’agroécologie pour repenser le développement des territoires en zone sèche. Ce document clarifie certains concepts clefs et détermine des voies possibles d’engagement pour favoriser la transition agroécologique dans les territoires. Il s’appuie sur des...

Nos últimos 12 anos, o Brasil passou por profundas transformações. O governo federal construiu e vem executando políticas públicas para a promoção da cidadania e de uma vida digna para milhões de brasileiros e brasileiras. Essas mudanças chegaram ao meio rural. No Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário (MDA), de 2003 a 2014,...

Privatising both land and seeds is essential for the corporate model to flourish in Africa. With regard to agricultural land, this means pushing for the official demarcation, registration and titling of farms. It also means making it possible for foreign investors to lease or own farmland on a long-term basis....

The video describes the activities of a project funded by the Benefit-sharing Fund in Iran and, in particular, the methodology used to bring together researchers and farmers in plant breeding.

Agroecology in Brazil, a system designed by Ernst Götsch.

Following the success of FSD4 in China, the European Society for Agronomy has been mandated to organize the next symposium (FSD5) in order to strengthen the interdisciplinary and methodological focus of the FSD initiative on methodologies for the design of productive and sustainable farming systems in a multi-scale and multi-domains...

Scholars have established sustainability as the goal of environmental sciences. The objective of this research was to establish definitions regarding the concept of sustainability and its place within agroecology theory. For that, a systematic review was conducted in global scientific databases, complemented with specialized journals and books. It was found...

Dentro de la teoría de las ciencias ambientales, se ha dicho que ellas tienen como propósito lograr la sostenibilidad de diferentes sistemas de referencia. El objetivo de la presente investigación es determinar los planteamientos que existen alrededor de la sostenibilidad y su lugar dentro de la teoría agroecológica. Se realizó...

Del 22 al 27 de noviembre de 2015, se desarrolló en el Centro Integral de la Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños ,ANAP - La Vía Campesina  ¨Niceto Pérez ¨ en el municipio Güira, provincia de Artemisa, en Cuba, el V Encuentro Internacional de Agroecología, Agricultura Sostenible y Cooperativismo, que contó...

To mark the European Year for Development, the International Year of Soils and the International Year of Light by visiting the 53rd International Fair of Agriculture and Food AGRA 2015 in Gornja Radgona. Namely, AGRA is a more than fifty year old event that promotes sustainable development cooperation, promotes the...

This document was prepared collaboratively within the FAORAF West Africa Team with a focus on the forestry sector. It is the product of a series of sub-regional consultations with forest-related civil society organizations in a selected number of countries in West Africa (Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal).

Se estudiaron los agro-ecosistemas de café orgánico y convencional en tres pisos altitudinales de la provincia La Convención, Cusco, Perú. Se evaluó el índice de Shannon, índice de Equidad, indice de Dominancia, incidencia de plagas, cantidad de microorganismos edáficos, características químicas del suelo, rendimiento, calidad del café y rentabilidad del agro-ecosistema. Para la...

The Project Development Objective is to enhance the competitiveness of the country’s agro-food sector by supporting the modernization of the food safety management system; facilitating market access for farmers; and mainstreaming agro-environmental and sustainable land management practices. The PDO will be achieved through activities aimed at: (i) strengthening country capacity...