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In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the need for solidarity-based, resilient food systems is increasingly evident. Long-standing and viable models such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and other types of Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology (LSPAs) have played a critical role in safely and efficiently feeding local communities.
The crisis...
Report
2021
The Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP) on agroecological approaches to building the resilience of livelihoods and landscapes aims to foster transitions to more sustainable agricultural and food systems. It seeks to do so by accelerating and coordinating the actions of a range of institutions that are already working on agroecology across various...
Project
2021
A Special Issue of the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is currently being prepared on the topic of “Doing Participatory Action Research (PAR) in a time of COVID-19 and Beyond” by researchers connected to AgroecologyNow. Scholar-activists or researcher-practitioners from within social networks and scholarship are encouraged to co-author work that raises...
Event
2020
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) announces a call for papers and essays for a Special Issue, “COVID-19 and the Food System”. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2020. JAFSCD is calling for four types of submissions:
For publication in the 2020-2021 Winter Issue:
Research Papers (4,500 to...
Event
2020
The study shows a comparative analysis between agroecological and conventional farms in Benito Juarez, Buenos Aires (Argentina). The research shows the evolution of direct costs per hectare and gross margin in both models over a 14-year period. It concludes that conventional farms' expenses tend to rise due to the increased...
Argentina
Conference report
2015
Several innovative farming systems have been identified to promote global food and ecosystem security that better balance multiple sustainability goals. The most rapidly growing and contentious of these systems is organic agriculture. Whether organic agriculture can continue to expand will likely be determined by whether it is economically competitive with...
Journal article
2015
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