In the high Andes of Peru, rural farmers are becoming sustainable stewards of the ecosystems on which they depend – bolstering the region’s water security and their own livelihoods. IFAD is supporting these rural farmers the Conservation and Sustainable Use of High-Andean Ecosystems project, through compensation of environmental services for...

En Afrique de l’Ouest, le conseil agricole marqué par de longuesannées d’orientation vers le modèle de révolution verte, est de plusen plus sollicité pour accompagner des dynamiques de transitionsagroécologiques. Mais il y a un déficit de connaissances sur les ca-pacités réelles du conseil agricole à effectivement faciliter les tran-sitions agroécologiques,...

This manual presents the second version of the EU-wide individual farm level model IFM-CAP which has been developed to assess the economics and environmental impacts of the CAP and related policies, such as the Strategies embedded in the European Green Deal. The rationale for such a farm-level model is based...

This legal paper reflects on the evolution of international law on the interdependence of human rights and the environment. It illustrates their significance for the development and implementation of national laws on agricultural development and the management of renewable natural resources, ranging from land, water, fisheries, plants, and animals, to...

ICSF’s Archives/Digital library contains ICSF’s collections of more than three decades, built up since ICSF’s documentation centre was set up in Chennai in 1999 with the twin objectives of gathering all kinds of information pertinent to small-scale fisheries and making it available to all stakeholders in an easy and rapid-access...

El Diplomado es promovido por la organización civil Vía Orgánica AC y por la Universidad de Guanajuato y va dirigido a estudiantes, agricultores y campesinos que deseen restaurar sus paisajes, enriquecer las tierras y combatir el cambio climático a través de la siembra de Agaves y Mezquites en sus comunidades....

Ecosystem restoration has the potential to significantly contribute to reversing biodiversity loss, supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation, and increasing societal well-being, including gender equality. This policy brief provides the lessons learned from an analysis of ecosystem restoration benefits. The work draws on the experiences of five successful restoration initiatives within...

The Sámi people inhabit the region of Sámi, which incorporates most of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland as well as parts of North-western Russia. The Sámi have their own traditional food culture which was not well known to the public kitchens of Sweden’s Sámi region, where many Sámi live and...

The basis of agricultural production is land, and farmers need a properly functioning land market in order to make the most out of this precious asset. To this end, FAO convened Central Asian representatives of all related spheres in Bishkek to discuss the potentials of developing their national agricultural land...

The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See, 2019, 384 pages, Simon & Schuster Ltd, New York,, ISBN: 978 1 5011 54867 “Every woman who enters the sea, carries a coffin on her back. In this undersea world we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing...

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...

The global community is coming togetherunder the auspices of the CBD, after delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, to address the “silent catastrophe” of biodiversity decline (CBD, 2018). It is anticipated that the COP 15 to the CBD will meet in Montreal, Canada from 7-19 December 2022 to finalise and...

L’Iram lance un centre de ressources en ligne dédié au développement local en République centrafricaine. On y trouve des documents relatifs au cadre politique et législatif centrafricain, de la documentation scientifique, ainsi que des travaux produits à l’occasion de la conduite de projets (études, cartes, rapports). Le site a vocation...

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...

Nearly half of Europeans think that securing a stable supply of food in the EU at all times should be a main objective of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) according to the latest Eurobarometer on agriculture and the CAP published today. In addition, more than half of respondents (55%) think...

1.   The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration signifies the ambition to move be-yond a defensive focus on biodiversity protection towards a proactive agenda of restoring ecosystems to generate value for people and nature.2.   The international nature regime, based on the linked concepts of biodiversity and sustainable development, has achieved much....

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...