By producing high-quality food with low environmental impact, organic farming will play an essential role in developing a sustainable food system for the European Union (EU). A sustainable food system is at the heart of the European Green Deal. Under the Green Deal’s ''Farm to fork'' strategy, the European Commission has set a target of...

Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) with support from IKEA Foundation is currently implementing ''Youth in Agroecology & Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA)'' -  a three-year 2020-2022 initiative aimed at supporting young agripreneurs to apply agroecological principles and to co-create networks around them, in view of contributing to the increased sustainability of...

On Friday, 30 April 2021, at 09:00 AM (Guatemala), 10:00 AM (Panama), 11:00 AM (Chile) and 12:00 PM (Argentina) the webinar "Innovator Handbook" will be held where the ''Handbook for Innovators: facilitating sustainable food systems'' will be launched in Spanish. The document aims to help stakeholders in the revaluation of agriculture...

On International Earth Day this discussion will provide an opportunity to disseminate the work of scholarship holders of the Research and Training Programme on Andean Agroecological Systems of Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and McKnight Foundation. This is the result of the work that over the course of four years...

Agriculture faces severe challenges such as increasing food demands, climate change, soil degradation, resource scarcity and biodiversity loss. At the same time, agriculture experiences a crisis of social acceptance due to its social and environmental impacts and its consequences for human and animal health. The time thus seems ripe for...

This policy brief published by International cooperation for development and solidarity (CIDSE) and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University has presented a synthesis of research on how to ‘make money move for agroecology’. Drawing on the collective intelligence of leading agroecologists and donors, the policy brief...