Recently established organic regions aim to be model regions of sustainability. In the frame of this article we understand organic regions as territories that aim at the sustainable management of local resources, based on the principles of organic farming and agroecology. The contribution focuses especially on the role and configurations...

The project was born with the aim of decoding and explaining what makes a good idea or project successful in often under populated, isolated or challenged geographical areas. It aims to drive innovative solutions through reconfiguring social practices and implementing proven and successful civil society actions. The SIMRA project is...

Este documento presenta los resultados de un estudio de la Red PP-AL sobre las políticas públicas a favor de la agroecología en América Latina y El Caribe. El objetivo era realizar un estudio regional latinoamericano, transversal y comparativo sobre la contribución de diversos instrumentos de políticas públicas, para apoyar la...

This film is about a farm that boldly bucks the trend. While the general direction of agriculture is to increase in size, specialise and mechanise, Ragman’s Lane is just 60 acres, has a whole host of enterprises and is expert in low-tech solutions. At a time when agriculture employs ever...

En un trabajo conjunto con las organizaciones campesinas, INDAP realizará los días 6 y 7 de septiembre próximo, en la sede de la Oficina Regional de la FAO en Santiago, el  Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar, instancia que busca promover esta práctica como un modelo de...

This article asks whether the concept of values-based food chains (VBFC) can help explain and advance processes fostering sustainability transitions in the food system of the Global North. The VBFC concept is contested in the context of the author’s research into Canadian and UK university food procurement experiences designed to...

El presente folleto da a conocer el procedimiento para la toma de muestras y análisis de fertilidad de suelos, para evitar la poca rentabilidad de un cultivo y determinar las necesidades de adición de fertilizantes o enmiendas para suplir dichas necesidades y corregir las condiciones adversas, sirviendo como herramienta de...

The consultation is open for a further six weeks until 2 May, and then the hard work of analysing and assessing the many thousands of responses can begin ahead of a conference to present the results planned for 7 July in Brussels.

Values-based food chains (VBFCs) are gaining recognition as people seek alternatives to the unsustainable environmental and social outcomes of the corporate food system. One example of a VBFC can be found in the Local Organic Food Co-ops (LOFC) Network, a coalition of cooperatives that specialize in locally and sustainably produced...

In the rural areas where there is an economic potential clearly defined by the agricultural or commercial activities, tourism is the business key within reach. Under the circumstances, the socio-economic reflex takes the form of developing projects for tourist services, especially in the places with tourist potential. Further, the local economy, at...

Continued armed conflict and related instability have inflicted enormous losses on the agricultural sector in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Yet, as the rest of the economy declines subsistence farming has taken on new importance. It could even become a driver of the local economy, according to a report released...

El Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP), constantemente desarrolla diversas actividades con el fin de aportar en la mejora de la actividad agropecuaria nacional basada en suelos sanos, una gestión eficaz del agua, el uso de semillas de alta calidad y de alto rendimiento, el manejo integrado de plagas y...

Desde hace 25 años, Blanquita reside en la provincia de Carchi junto a su esposo Héctor. Ellos se dedican a la agricultura, cultivan legumbres, verduras, frutas y otros productos dependiendo de la época de producción. Esta pareja de agricultores, está vinculada al Programa Nacional de Intervención en la Alimentación Escolar...

A new eco-tourism initiative showcasing the Huvalu Forest Conservation Area has just been launched in Niue, with the aim of informing, educating and exciting both visitors and locals on the importance of Niue’s forests in sustaining the island’s ecosystems, culture, and biodiversity conservation.   The forest area covers almost a quarter of...

The Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE), a farmers’ organization in West Bengal, is carrying out two major campaigns in support of farmers to enable them to keep the land they till and to use sustainable agriculture practices to make small-scale farming viable while protecting the environment. Village-level awareness camps were...

El presente informe recopila la experiencia de realización del Foro Taller: “Innovaciones Sociales para la Agricultura Familiar”, realizado entre el 2 y el 4 de agosto de 2017 en la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, en las instalaciones del Bloque Interdisciplinario, Jardín Botánico y Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales. Este evento fue...

Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs...

For over a decade ActionAid Mozambique (AAMoz) has worked with strategic partner organisations in the south and north-east of the country to promote agroecology initiatives with 80 farmers’ associations consisting of over 8000 farmers. 96% of the members are women and 30% of them young people, cultivating an average of...

The Family Agriculture Yearbook in Spain has become a referenceFor all the professionals who follow the agrarian activity in Spain. The theme that is developed in the 2017 edition, "Agriculture, development and innovation in rural territories. The risks of depopulation: Where there is agriculture, there is life ", has a...

The High Level Panel of Experts for Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science-policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost inclusive and evidence-based international and intergovernmental platform for food security and nutrition (FSN). The HLPE reports serve as...