La alimentación suministrada en el actual modelo hegemónico de producción de alimentos de origen animal, con un enfoque agroindustrial y con el confinamiento de los animales en pequeñas superficies (granjas avícolas destinadas a la producción intensiva de huevos y carne, sistemas estabulados de producción de leche, granjas porcinas, feedlot), se...

El Sistema Integrado de Producciones Agroecológicas (SIPA) de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario fue creado en el año 2017 con el objetivo de generar prácticas agropecuarias alternativas que amplíen y mejoren el perfil profesional. Al tiempo que el SIPA comenzaba a funcionar, la institución...

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...

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...

Dans un ouvrage à succès paru en 2013, un journaliste britannique spécialiste de l’Asie analyse comment la Chine, le Japon, la Corée du Sud et Taïwan ont réussi à s’extraire de l’extrême pauvreté. Une leçon pour l’Afrique ?

Se evaluó el crecimiento y desarrollo de cuatro especies arbóreas nativas en su etapa inicial de desarrollo establecidas en un arreglo silvopastoril para ramoneo de ovinos y caprinos en territorio de una comunidad indígena Wayuu ubicada en la zona de amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Natural de Macuira en la Guajira-Colombia....

This article is about informing the debate. The information in it has long been needed. It is, however, still superficial and no more than a snapshot. It has also required the author to resort to available ‘standard’ farm management data to make predictions. The information it contains is, therefore, only...

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...

The climate emergency affects us all deeply, in so many ways. But for farmers it has more drastic implications. It undermines all aspects of the food systems that they depend on. Extreme weather devastates their crops and livestock, and destabilises the very water cycle that they are intimately a part...

Part two of four from Stuart Meikle on Ireland, food security and feed(ing) the world delves into the relationship Britain and Ireland have with each other  -the two main islands of the archipelago referred to in the article’s title. Part one (see below) focused on Ireland, food security and nitrogen...

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 these challenging times ‘food security’ has returned to the agenda in what was assumed to be the well-fed countries of the World. That includes in Ireland, even though it is ranked first in the Economist’s Global Food Security Index. To inform this debate ARC2020 will present an article series ...

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...

Guayapi was founded by Claudie Ravel in 1990 after three years of feasibility studies in the Amazon rainforest with the Sateré Mawé tribe on how to build credible and fair value chains in marketing their products, starting with Waraná (original name of Guarana in Sateré Mawé language). Claudie Ravel and Obadias Batista Garcia, the...

A scenario in which women collectors and fisherwomen from the mangroves of Latin America and the Greater Caribbean have undertaken the challenge of writing and photographing chapters of their lives, gaining self-recognition, and recognizing themselves in others. The idea is to transform their strengths into a rhizome of life.

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...

Long lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic offered us a reminder of the restorative power of nature for the body and mind. Yet, reconnecting people with nature, particularly in cities, has been the focus of several European research projects since well before the outbreak of COVID-19 almost three years ago.These projects...

On 31 August and 1 September 2022, IFOAM Organics Europe, FiBL and Bio Suisse hosted the 1st edition of the Organics Europe Youth Event (OEYE). The event aimed to create a platform for young agents interested and active in the organic sector to network, discuss and develop knowledge and awareness on organic amongst youth. The participants listen eagerly...

In the context of the release of our latest publication ‘Peasant agroecology according to ECVC’, ECVC invites members,allies and policy makers to a webinar to explore and discuss its approach to peasant agroecology. In this webinar, ECVC wishes to develop its vision and policies proposals for a new paradigm, based on...

Agroecology builds biodiversity into agriculture and food systems and should be a focus of global biodiversity conservation efforts as if lives and nature depend on it – because they do. The world’s nations are currently gathering at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 in Montreal to finalize a “Global Biodiversity Framework” for the...