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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

The database provides a starting point to organize the existing knowledge on agroecology, collecting articles, videos, case studies, books and other important material in one place. The objective is to support policy-makers, farmers, researchers and other relevant stakeholders through knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. The database is a ‘living process’ that is constantly being updated.

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Between maintenance and transformation: Reading for difference in agricultural extension

Agricultural extension has long been the subject of scholarly critiques for its hierarchical approach to knowledge transfer and its complicity in promoting agricultural intensification and farm sector consolidation. Here, however, this study suggests that there are already-existing examples of different kinds of agricultural extension practices, ones that challenge the capitalist—understood...
Journal article
2024

From scientific authority to the court jester: Shedding light on epistemic pluralism within transdisciplinary research projects

This paper aims to share and analyze the difficulties and discomfort that social scientists may face when conducting transdisciplinary research. Focusing on the case study of a research project that brought together farmers, farm advisors, social and biotechnical science teachers, and researchers interested in seed management and participatory plant breeding,...
Journal article
2024

Happy Days- A documentary film about on organic small-scale family farming in Japan

This omnibus film presents several young families practicing organic or natural farming in different regions in Japan including Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Gojo City, Nara Prefecture. Some of them are refugees of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident of March 2011. The director of the film, Mr. Okada who is...
Japan
Video
2024

Dismantling agroecology: The coming of the genetically modified cotton-agrochemical complex in an Indian highland frontier

This article traces the coming of a genetically modified (GM) cotton-agrochemical complex to highland eastern India. In this region of rich biodiversity and Indigenous systems of food and agroecology, GM cotton cultivation has seen a meteoric rise over the past decade. It explores how this shift from a no-input polyculture...
India
Journal article
2024

From soil to tierrita: Contrasts between Mexican soil regulation and the perspectives, values, and practices of indigenous communities

Soils, the basis of agroecosystems, have been generated and continuously modified not only by the interaction of physical, chemical, and biological factors but also by human activities, driven by local values and knowledge. The way different peoples relate to soil thus reflects diverse ways of knowing and being, and has...
Mexico
Journal article
2024

Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico

This study embarks on an in-depth examination of “Afro-Indigenous communities” in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, scrutinizing the intricate relationships between the hacienda system’s historical legacies and local agroecological practices. Employing a blend of historical–geographical analysis, ethnography, and participatory methods, the study exposes how ethnoracial identities, particularly Afro-Indigenous, are intrinsically...
Mexico
Journal article
2024
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