IFOAM - Organics International and its Seeds Platform recognize initiatives worldwide seeking to create an alternative model of seed production. For all these experiences to be successful some common obstacles have to be overcome. There are farmers, breeders, institutions and civil society actors that are committed to producing seeds compatible...

We are at an important crossroads. The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate variability and extremes, conflict, and the persistence of hunger and malnutrition have shown us that now is the time for us to build more resilient agrifood systems. If we don’t, agrifood systems will not be able to ensure food...

This paper examines agroecology within Europe, its dynamics, its position within a broader politico-economic framework and its political significance. It argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture. In this respect, it has a strategically important...

En el ‘Sistema tradicional de la Chagras Amazónicas del medio Caquetá’ confluye una gran diversidad biológica, con variedad de grupos étnicos, quienes a través de la implementación de Chagras Amazónicas emulan los procesos de sucesión en los bosques, integrando los conocimientos sobre las plantas cultivadas, las tecnologías adaptadas a las...

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

The leader of the Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) programme Vijay Kumar explains the Social Capital side of the story, and how women’s groups were a central part of the success of CMNF, now recognised worldwide as a model of agricultural transformation. The CMNF initiative has mobilised over a million...

Muitas experiências de promoção da agroecologia no Brasil e no conjunto da América Latina estão baseadas em conhecimentos tradicionais sobre a produção agrícola em harmonia com a natureza, assim como no consumo de alimentos saudáveis que se apresentam de várias formas: nas refeições cotidianas, em festas e rituais, em determinadas...

Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing its environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many of the costs of harmful foods are externalized, i.e. are not reflected in market prices. At the...

Belarus and Ukraine have high forest covers that provide a fundamental contribution to the wellbeing of rural populations and the national economy. To protect these forests for future generations, a new FAO project, launched today with a virtual inception workshop, will help increase the resilience of forest ecosystems against unfavourable...

En el marco del 2º Congreso Chileno de Agroecología 2021, Francisco Carvallo, investigador del programa Manejo Territorial de Insectos (MTI), presentó la ponencia "Experiencia en terreno sobre manejo sostenible de Varroasis en apiarios de la región de Valparaíso"; relato que compartió el acompañamiento con apicultores de Quillota y Olmué, a...

Los perforadores del fruto ocasionan daños en los cultivos de cacao en diferentes zonas de Colombia. El costo de establecimiento de un sistema agroforestal de cacao demanda en el primer año la mayor inversión. Estos son en mano de obra, materiales y suministros, dado que se requiere adecuar el terreno,...

This review of the agroecology debate in South Africa is part of the research project ''Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems: a case for policy support (TAFS)'' launched in 2020. Its main objective is to provide policymakers and stakeholders with convincing arguments about the importance and adapted ways of promoting agroecological transitions...

This video was developed by the Coalition on Agroecology for the UNFSS. It highlighted the essential role of adopting agroecological practices to ensure global food security. The video also stressed the importance of government's role in creating and adopting bold policies that will support agroecological conservation, help in combatting biodiversity...

This report presents the results of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) stock-take on agroecology, an outcome of IFAD’s engagement in the multi-agency Scaling Up Agroecology Initiative launched in 2018. The report assesses to what degree IFAD is supporting agroecology throughout its in-country portfolio across the five IFAD regions to the benefit...

Romanian National Rural Development Network Newsletter - Topics include: EU AgriFish Council of 26-27 May, LIAISON project: EURIC; LAGs Good practices, Local Gastronomic Points, Training for LAGs and other topics.    

Agroecology has many faces and in order to scale up and remain a legitimate approach in bio-culturally diverse contexts such as Latin America, it has to keep the balance between science, practice, and social movements. The power of local networks, including children; the deconstruction of colonial perceptions toward native foods and rural...

The department of Caquetá is part of the Amazon River basin and a strategic ecosystem for Colombia and the globe. Historically, it has been the region most affected by deforestation in the country due to the advancing of the agricultural frontier and the widespread presence of illicit crops. The region...

Read the opinion piece by Maryline Darmaun, Fabio Leippert and Martin Herren, published on Devex as part of the Future of Food Systems series. The article addresses the question of how we can transform food systems and strengthen their resilience to increasing external shocks and changing conditions. The authors advocate...

Concerns about chronic hunger, malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation have led to increased focus on the world’s food system in recent years, with various actors putting forward different plans to tackle these interconnected issues. In this context, interest in agroecology has grown significantly, and it is now...

UCSC Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau gives an overview of what to look for in seedling soil mix, and different types of containers for growing seedlings and how to choose which container is best for the needs of your seedlings.