Malawi, a small country in Southeast Africa, is gaining recognition as an emerging player in the global coffee industry. Blessed with fertile soil, favorable climatic conditions and a rich agricultural heritage, Malawi has steadily established itself as a producer of high-quality coffee beans. Today the coffee industry plays a crucial...

As part of the RISE ATTER project, consortium partners co-designed and delivered a 7-day event at Monkton Wyld Court in Dorset, UK. This is the first of three summer/autumn schools planned to take place over the course of the ATTER project. The main objective of this week-long collective space was...

This manual is intended for those wanting to design or facilitate a course or workshop based on the Ecological Organic Agriculture Leadership Course (EOALC). The EOALC and the manual cover a wide range of topics in the field of leadership and ecological organic agriculture. The intention is to inform and inspire...

In this briefing, Cultivating diversity for a just agroecological transition in Africa: the inextricable link between agricultural biodiversity, agroecology, climate change, and biodiversity, we highlight the pivotal role of agricultural biodiversity, in particular, crop diversity and its interrelatedness and dependence on farmer managed seed systems and the unfettered exercise of...

Both climate change and biodiversity loss have distorting social and economic impacts on development and cause severe risks for food security, nutrition and livelihoods among rural populations in Europe and Central Asia, most of whom depend directly or indirectly on the agricultural sector. The mutually reinforcing and complex nature of...

Dans une étude récente réalisée par des experts du Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développemente (Cirad) et de l’ l’Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles -Bureau d'analyses macroéconomiques (Isra Bame), se sont intéressés  au processus d’intégration de l’agroécologie dans les politiques nationales au Sénégal. L’étude vise  à...

The IFOAM Organics Europe team is closely monitoring the many legislative initiatives being launched as part of the Farm to Fork strategy. We are committed to providing political and technical input on behalf of the organic sector and movement. The feedback, the experience and knowledge of our members are key...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization) llevó a cabo del 16 al 21 de octubre de 2023 el Foro Mundial de la Alimentación en la sede de FAO, situada en Roma, Italia. En este contexto internacional, “El caso del Sistema...

Listen to Dr. Colin Tosh explain about the the importance of hedgerows and the study to prove that connecting patches of woodlands together by hedgerows has a beneficial effect on the woodland ecology by providing a migratory bridge for species from one area to another.

The world is made of an invisible web that we rarely recognize. Forests provide homes for animals. Animals eat plants. The plants need healthy soil to grow. Fungi help fertilize the soil. Bees and other insects carry pollen from one plant to another, enabling the plants to reproduce. Loss of...

This Guide for the evaluation of agroecology offers an approach and methodological tools to assess the effects of agroecological practices and systems on the agro-environmental and socio-economic performance of agriculture and on the other hand, the conditions for the development of agroecology.  It aims to help development actors to better design their...

Faced with changes in society, climate and geopolitics, we are all vulnerable. This vulnerability calls for ongoing adaptation, questioning of how we work and how we live. For rural territories, quality of life is a lever for development. Rural society is imagining new ways of functioning, in which every person...

The impacts of chemical pesticides on the environment, including biodiversity, water, air and soil, and on human health, have become a major concern for civil society and consumers. They are also a major issue for the sustainability of agricultural systems. Recently, the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity European strategies set...

The Devon Silvopasture Network are undertaking a 12 year trial in which six farms and a research farm are being supported to design and implement the integration of trees into their livestock farms. The trial has a mixture of cluster planting, regular spacing and shelterbelts being planted. Little research has...

Spiralling inequality was just one obstacle blocking action on climate, nature and development in 2022. Uneven COVID-19 recovery, rising sea levels, conflict, catastrophic flooding in Pakistan – every blow struck the least powerful communities hardest. Meanwhile, global summits offered uncertain spaces for change. But in this complex landscape, IIED can...

Este informe está dirigido a los actores y organizaciones que buscan apoyar transiciones agroecológicas y facilitar transformaciones sociales necesarias para que la agroecología prospere. Este informe explica cómo las transiciones agroecológicas son procesos complejos de múltiples escalas que se desarrollan en las comunidades y territorios de los proveedores de alimentos,...

The Devon Silvopasture Network are undertaking a 12 year trial in which six farms and a research farm are being supported to design and implement the integration of trees into their livestock farms. The trial has a mixture of cluster planting, regular spacing and shelterbelts being planted. Little research has...

Avec le réchauffement climatique, le déclin de la biodiversité représente sans conteste l’un des plus grands enjeux environnementaux de notre époque. La mise en place d’aires protégées est de plus en plus plébiscitée. Mais est-elle réellement pertinente ?

Humans depend on a thin planetary ‘skin’ made up of life in all its diversity: biodiversity. Agriculture now covers the largest portion (46%) of the global land surface area; its ecological health and resilience in the face of changing climate is therefore critical to human survival. The biodiversity found within...

Life-threatening heat waves, forest fires, hurricanes, droughts and floods mean that climate change must be tackled on a ‘war footing’. With agri-food systems responsible for close to 40% of total greenhouse gas emissions, food and farming need priority attention in government negotiations at COP 28. A rapid and substantial reduction...