Iván León Ayala, Representante de la FAO en Nicaragua, habla sobre los retos que enfrenta el país en materia de agroecología.

This manual is developed by a consortium consisting of four NGOs (Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization) for the implementation of the Action for Livelihood Enhancement in Northern Uganda (ALENU) Project that is funded under the Development Initiative for Northern...

Diversified farming systems are proposed as a major mechanism to address the many sustainability issues of today's agriculture. Multi-species livestock farming, i.e. keeping two or more animal species simultaneously on the same farm, is an option that has received little attention to date. Moreover, most studies of multi-species livestock farming...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), also known as peanut, is cultivated in the semiarid tropical and subtropical regions of nearly 100 countries in six continents between 40° N and S of the equator. In Southern and Eastern Africa, peanut is grown at an altitude of over 1500 m, with a rainfall...

Despite Jason’s father, Victoriano I. Tagupa, being involved in organic farming for 30 years at the time, he never imposed his beliefs on Jason, or influenced his career decisions. That is why he was supportive of Jason when he did not choose to work on the farm but instead in...

Potato originated in the highlands of South America before Spanish explorers brought the plant to Europe in the late 16th century. Around the turn of the 20th century the plant arrived in Africa where potato has grown in importance over the last years (Biovision). Uganda is the 3rd largest producer...

Este artículo intenta reflejar el conocimiento construido, a través de investigaciones, acerca de las causas, producción y tratamiento de incendios forestales. En la actualidad estos incendios se suceden en diferentes partes del mundo y, especialmente en Argentina existen ejemplos suficientes y contundentes sobre la ocurrencia de los mismos. Estos incendios...

Baseado nos saberes e nas trocas de experiências e convivências dentro do contexto rural da Cooperativa dos Agricultores Familiares de Poço Fundo e Região foi apontada pelas Mulheres Organizadas Em Busca de Igualdade (MOBI) a demanda de produção de alimentos para consumo próprio. Além da própria demanda do grupo enquanto...

The main target group is para-veterinarians involved in the development of small poultry farm at village level. The intention is that the paravets will extract from the manual the materials they need for training.

Increasing demands for agricultural commodities are resulting in more intensely managed landscapes. This is at odds with biodiversity conservation and largely ignores farmland biodiversity’s supporting function for high and stable yields. An overhaul of agroeconomic models to account for the biodiversity-production mutualism is urgently needed to answer a question of utmost...

Los pedidos a los productores de la economía popular aumentaron entre el 40 y el 80 por ciento, dependiendo de la organización. El caso de Mercado Territorial, una comercializadora que creció aliada a la Universidad de Quilmes, con una consigna que hoy cobra un valor extra: que la construcción de...

Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.  

A really good teacher will teach you both subject matter and how to explain it to others. Elías Sánchez mentored thousands of Central Americans in organic agriculture. He started his adult life as a rural schoolteacher because he wanted to help people. But he soon realized that rural people needed...

This is a story of hope and decolonisation in a time of crises. The Indigenous Bagungu People of western Uganda have lived along the shores of Itaka Mwitanzige (Lake Albert) since time immemorial. But for over a century, colonialism and globalisation have damaged and repressed both the Bagungu's traditional, Earth-centred culture and...

In Belgium we have an expression: “all Belgians are born with a brick in their stomach”, meaning that all citizens aspire to build their own house someday. But when bricks are literally eaten, something has gone seriously wrong.  

Onion is a biennial vegetable grown in temperate regions as an annual crop. Onions are especially suitable for smallholder farming in many countries because they require a small amount of initial capital. Onions require a small piece of land and they take a relatively short time to mature. Onions can...

Join an interactive network of policy makers interested in making our food systems sustainable in the face of current global challenges. Through this network you will have the opportunity to meet, learn and get inspired by other policy makers via peer-to-peer exchanges. Share your experiences, get to know the evidence...

Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. We conducted a case study in Tabasco, México, on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionality and how it relates to agrobiodiversity as measured by species richness and diversity. The term multifunctionality knowledge refers to owners’ knowledge...

During the Coronavirus crisis, it has become clear how fragile and vulnerable agro-industrial supply chains can be. However, a movement known as "Community Supported Agriculture" (CSA) is at its peak, a model of local marketing providing healthy and nutritious products from the field to the kitchen. Members buy a share...

European farmers are faced with increasing challenges, including the effects of climate change. Agro-ecological approaches can help them to develop more sustainable and resilient farming systems that combine stable yields with enhanced biodiversity and ecosystem services. Agro-ecological approaches are inspired by natural ecosystems. They focus on the interactions between plants,...