This paper analyzes the experience of the Salvadoran cooperative movement in pursuing a political project for the institutionalization of agroecology in the years 2008–2018, under two consecutive FMLN governments in 2009 and 2014. Following El Salvador’s “turn to the left”, Salvadoran agrarian reform cooperatives and civil society allies began to...

This online training gives an overview of the global spaces of governance related to food and agriculture. It gives a general insight on the progressive entering of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) within these crucial spaces of governance (Module II). The Module III focuses on the Committee on World Food Security...

This volunteering project of the Green School Village is funded by the European Solidarity Corps and is for 6 months (April-September 2020) for 2 young people (age 18-30) to join the Balkan Ecology Project team in the small town of Shipka, Bulgaria at the foothills of the Balkan mountains and...

"Prevailing agricultural practices such as mono-cropping decrease soil moisture content, causing tremendous stress on water resources. Agriculture, today, accounts for almost 70 per cent of the world’s freshwater consumption. The use of external inputs by adoption of uniform, hybridised, and genetically modified crop varieties erodes genetic diversity of seeds, and...

This issue brief maps the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Government of Andhra Pradesh’s (GoAP) Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) programme vis-à-vis specific targets under each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Once rolled out across the state, ZBNF could help Andhra Pradesh and India make significant progress towards almost a...

“Arrecifes”, located in the Pampas region, has undergone an intense process of soybean production in the last 20 years, due to its higher economic profitability, which could have led to negative balances of nutrients and loss of soil carbon. This degradation of natural capital would involve a "hidden cost" that has not...