This document is the first of two. This brochure introduces the system of indicators and describes its principles

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...

As part of its 10th anniversary celebration this year, Access Agriculture is organising a webinar on “How to scale agroecology” on 25 October 2022, in partnership with the Agroecology Coalition. The webinar will feature an eclectic line-up of distinguished speakers and panelists, including representatives from the Agroecology Coalition, FAO Family Farming Knowledge Platform, ANTHRA, Collaborative Crop Research Program at McKnight...

With increasing global consensus on the need to support a transition to sustainable agricultural practices, the Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance has launched an innovative tool to assess the degree to which national budgets and overseas development assistance (ODA) in Africa support a transition to agroecology. In response to growing...

This document is the second of two. It explains the methodology of the indicator system in detail and guides the evaluator on how to assign a value to each criterion, conduct the assessment and interpret the results. The first document introduces the system of indicators and describes its principles.

Nestled in a verdant valley in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, about a four-hour drive southwest of Bangalore, the agroecology learning center Amrita Bhoomi is one of dozens of farmer-to-farmer training hubs around the world focused on agroecology. The center was born out of organizing efforts of the local...

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...

‘You shall not push farmers into one or another direction, but empower them to decide.’ Farmer’s representatives Shamika Mone from India and Elizabeth Nsimadala from Uganda on ecological farming methods, the need for sustainable food systems, and negotiating small-holders’ rights on the international stage.

I spent my summer vacations at my grandma's after my 6th-grade examinations. Grandma lives in a small village in Kerala in India. It was always fun to be at her place, spending my days playing, helping in the kitchen and feeding the cows. I rarely visited grandma every year as...

In Cuba, food security is still a challenge after years of wars to fight against colonialism, imperialism and climate change. Yet, the island is far beyond the European Green Deal objectives, having largely achieved most of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity targets that the EU aspires to attain by 2030....

Sustainable agriculture and agroecology are now essential to the discussion on agricultural models in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study develops a typology of farms with different levels of agroecology, from none to advanced adoption and the findings provide a better understanding of agroecology’s development in dynamic rural contexts such as the Niayes....

Ireland’s agricultural sector has specialised towards the export of dairy products and beef, mainly to the UK and the EU. At the same time, domestic consumers are now reliant on food imports. Recent global events have nonetheless raised the question of whether Ireland should be producing more foods for the domestic...

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...