Farming Matters: Making the case for agroecology
This issue of Farming Matters explores innovative ways to demonstrate that agroecology provides critical solutions to the challenges of our time.
Agroecology is gaining recognition for its potential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and malnutrition, and many successful examples exist. However, to garner the necessary support in policy and practice, looking differently at ‘progress’, ‘performance’ or ‘success’ of farming and food systems is key.
As agroecology can have impact at many levels, conventional indicators such as yield per hectare of a single crop no longer suffice. The experiences, opinions, and perspectives featured in this issue show how farmers, researchers, policy makers and consumers are using new lenses to track change.
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Farmers in focus: Madelyn Álvarez Díaz
Editorial: Proving the potential of agroecology
Perspectives: Indicators as a tool for changing policy and practice
The true cost of food by Patrick Holden
Voices from the field
Seeing is believing: urban agroecological transition by Ahmed Inusa Adamu
Opinion: Elizabeth Mpofu
“Impact studies are crucial for the amplification of agroecology” Interview with Clara Nicholls
Youth and agriculture: Edie Mukiibi
Short chains bring long-term gains-Eduardo Lopez Rosse
Locally rooted: Ideas and initiatives from the field
Agroecology contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals-Michael Farrelly
Opinion: Martin Drago
Perspectives: How peasants read their farm by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Mind! New books on assessing impact of agroecology
Raising Voices: lessons learnt from a documentation workshop in Jordan by Laura Eggens and Jorge Chavez-Tafur
How to amplify agroecology by Janneke Bruil and Jessica Milgroom
Call for articles: Food sovereignty in practice