While some agricultural inputs' harmful effects are becoming evident, many policies and incentives are emerging that promote sustainable farming. They encourage environmentally sound practices that conserve healthy, biodiverse, productive landscapes and soils, retain moisture, benefit from nutrient cycling, decomposition, soil structure, and help control pests and diseases. This report highlights...

Na fazenda comunitária, que reúne 39 famílias, cada família é responsável por cultivar quatro hectares de árvores de cacau e participa da manutenção da horta comunitária. Antes sem terra e agora instalados a 80 km do litoral da Bahia, esses pequenos agricultores produzem cacau, frutas e verduras sem usar fertilizantes ou...

By 2030, with our new Farm to Fork strategy, we will take action to: Reduce the overall use and risk of chemical and hazardous pesticides by 50% Reduce the sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and aquaculture by 50% Increase organic farmed land by 25%

For me, becoming an organic farmer is an investment in myself. I encourage people to love nature, love life, and eat organic.” Meet Luljeta, an organic farmer from Albania 🇦🇱 who makes a living growing olives for food and cosmetics.

The CSA movement in Norway is growing larger year by year. As per December 2019 there are 82 active CSAs in Norway. Given that Norway is a small country with only around 5,3 million inhabitants and around 3 % of the land area being suitable for agriculture, the number of...

From Rio to the present, from ‘green growth’ to implementing social solidarity economy, fighting the climate crisis and ensuring sustainable food systems and nutrition and (re)localisation of the economy.

During a convention organized by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), international experts endorsed the significant efforts to boost agroecological and natural farming approaches in India. NITI Aayog highlighted the transformation and renewal of agriculture in India, addressing agroecology and natural farming as an alternative that can ease the excessive and...

The Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) is a new terminology specifically introduced in order to promote nature to provide solutions to the challenges of mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The concept of NbS is rooted in the relationship between biodiversity and human well-being. Nevertheless, this relationship has been recognized for centuries under the concept of...

In order to address the root causes that are aggravating the multiple social, economic, health and climate crises that our society is facing due to unsustainable, unjust and unhealthy farming and food systems, the voice of young farmers needs to be put forward in the process of shaping public policies....

The Shared Action Framework for Resilient Seed Systems is a digital initiative of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food(link is external). Designed as a strategic guide for diverse stakeholders to take a holistic, collaborative approach to protecting and enhancing the world’s seed systems and help galvanize the action on...

In 2019, PANAP advanced its advocacy work towards a global ban on Highly Hazardous Pesticides and its campaign to Protect Children from Toxic Pesticides.   PANAP efforts to place the youth at the forefront of agroecological production and advocacy was the highlight of our Agroecology In Action campaign.   Through its No...

he Proceedings of the Conference aims to compile the data collected during the Conference and archive for future. It is composed of 6 chapters. The chapter on keynote speeches include presentations of Mr Hafiz Muminjanov, Agricultural Officer at FAO headquarters, introducing Conservation Agriculture: a win-win option for food security, land...

En este artículo, se habla sobre la fase de planeación del huerto, que es de vital importancia si se quiere tener éxito en la implementación del mismo.  Brinda diversos tips para empezar un huerto en casa con muchas posibilidades de éxito.

Greetings from the African Centre for Biodiversity! We are happy to share with you our first newsletter. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing flux has led to deep reflection, as we grapple with how to meet unprecedented challenges. And through the stringent lockdown, our agile and mostly young and women-led team were reaching out to partners locally,...

Financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the European Commission, with a budget of 12 million euros, and orchestrated by Group for Research and Technology Exchanges (GRET), with scientific coordination by the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), the far-reaching five-year project Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions (ASSET) will involve 27 partners in...

6 agriculteurs du réseau Agr'eau nous parlent de leur ferme. L'agroforesterie, la conservation des sols, la réintroduction de l'élevage sur une ferme céréalière, l'alimentation du troupeau 100% à l'herbe, sont autant de pratiques vertueuses mises en place par ces agriculteurs.

The ENRD newsletter provides all the latest rural development news from Europe straight to your inbox once a month. From policy updates to ENRD meetings and from project outcomes to online videos, this new and updated tool aims to provide something for everybody interested in rural development policy in Europe....

The international campaign we are all engaged in to reduce our tragic losses to the Covid-19 crisis is just a rehearsal for the big campaign that lies ahead – to preserve and build sustainable local and territorial food systems that connect producers and consumers and provide healthy, nutritious food for...

A Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Rurais Agricultores e Agricultoras Familiares (CONTAG) produziu um vídeo que resgata as primeiras lutas das mulheres do campo, da floresta e das águas do Brasil pelo direito à Previdência, à sindicalização e por participação no movimento sindical. Também destaca a trajetória de 20 anos de...

O acesso à alimentação diversificada, com produtos frescos, de qualidade e em quantidade suficiente tem impacto positivo sobre a saúde. Em conformidade com o Guia Alimentar para a População Brasileira do Ministério da Saúde, os alimentos in natura e minimamente processados devem ser a base de uma alimentação nutricionalmente balanceada, saborosa, culturalmente referenciada e...