By keeping live barriers with flowers around your fields, you help to protect the wasps and the other good insects. And it is easier to produce quinoa without insecticides while conserving our fertile soil.

The Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme, a key part (Component A & C) of which is led by NIRAS in partnership with CABI and Swisscontact, will see at least £4 million of additional investment mobilised into six agricultural market systems and the growth of SME agribusinesses resulting in at least...

After nearly four years of gardening, we've finally decided to plant some asparagus and strawberries! But as usual, we've also decided to skip the fertilizer, compost, and manure. We also decided to flip the sod, rather than using a tiller.

El sistema alimentario en Guanajuato, México, enfrenta muchos desafíos: cifras de sobrepeso y obesidad que están aumentando, producción intensiva de frutas y verduras de alto valor agregado por la exportación, agotamiento de los recursos hídricos, falta de coordinación de los actores, baja participación ciudadana y omnipresencia de la corrupción. Sin...

FAO assesses that globally 41 countries, of which 31 are in Africa, continue to be in need of external assistance for food. Conflict remains the main driver of high levels of severe food insecurity. Weather‑induced production declines and economic instability have also adversely impacted on food availability and access.

"Young Farmers' Call for Climate Action" is CEJA's position paper on climate change. The document was approved by CEJA's members, all young farmers from around the EU, in December 2019. It includes chapters on adaptation, emissions reduction and carbon sequestration.

This newsletter has “scaling” as the focus theme. The various stories illustrate some of the various approaches that AIRCA members use to maximize the impact of our innovations.

This proof-of-concept TEEB AgriFood study explores the true cost of maize in Mexico, looking at dependencies and impacts across different regions and production systems. The findings recognize maize as indispensable to the future of the global food system and inextricably entwined with Mexican national and Indigenous identities. It demonstrates the...

Just how bad are the twin climate and biodiversity crises, and what is anyone doing about it? The first of a two-parter on the topic from ARC2020’s Oliver Moore.

A better and more complete understanding of family farms is urgently needed to guide policy makers’ efforts towards achieving a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper takes stock of the number of farms worldwide, and their distribution and that of farmland, on the basis of agricultural censuses and...

O Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), em parceria com produtores rurais, organizações de ensino, de pesquisa, pequenos e médios agricultores, índigenas e poder público, conseguiu reflorestar em 12 anos de trabalho uma área de 4 mil hectares, apenas 1,34% dos mais de 300 mil hectares de matas ciliares que precisam ser reflorestados...

En este estudio se realizaron algunas aproximaciones a la aplicación del uso de imágenes aéreas obtenidas mediante sensores aerotransportados en Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, por sus siglas en inglés) para el monitoreo sanitario de plantaciones de palma de aceite de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia, con el fin de presentar...

The notion that maize is central to food security in Malawi is a widely held view. To date, however, ‘maize-led development’ has produced disappointing outcomes. The study provides an overview of the historical, political, environmental context of the maize agrifood system in Malawi, and uses the TEEBAgriFood framework to analyze...

In part 2 we introduce the social and solidarity economy, and the interesting lessons we can learn from separatist movements from the past and present, from Quebec to Ireland.

“Los árboles nos unen” es un Proyecto de Extensión del Vivero Forestal Agroecológico, que actualmente se está desarrollando con las comunidades de Maggiolo, San Francisco de Santa Fe y el Paraje San Marcos (Venado Tuerto), ubicadas en el Sur de la Provincia de Santa Fe. La misión es acercar a...

Natural do Xingu, Tapi Yawalapiti tenta evitar que o idioma de seu povo desapareça. Com a ajuda da memória dos mais velhos, ele está criando uma gramática e um dicionário para a língua. Tapi é linguista. Há um ano, faz um mestrado na Universidade de Brasília (UNB). Sua dissertação analisa aspectos...

During the VI Mediterranean Forest Week, which took place from 1 to 5 April in Brummana, Lebanon, hundreds of researchers, policy-makers and other relevant stakeholders from the wide Mediterranean basin gathered to discuss Mediterranean-wide forestry issues. Emerging topics included: the role of forests for achieving NDC targets for COP21, existing linkages...

El Programa Colaborativo de Investigación en Cultivos (Collaborativecrop Research Program) de la Fundación Mcknight financia investigaciones colaborativas entre pequeños productores, investigadores y promotores de desarrollo para generar conocimientos que contribuyan a lograr sistemas agroecológicos sustentables. El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) es una institución internacional no- gubernamental con status asociativo...

South Asia, comprised of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is home to about 1.8 billion people -- nearly 25% of the world’s population. But with an area of 5.2 million square kilometers, or some 1% of the world’s area, South Asia is the most densely...

For thousands of years, farmers have looked to the clouds for the next sign of rain to irrigate their crops. Now farmers are also looking to another cloud—the digital cloud—for insights that can make a critical difference for their operations. Through this network of servers, satellites, and mobile devices, the...