Besides the severe health crisis, the COVID-19 epidemic also caused the global economy to contract at a rate not seen since the Second World War and led to a severe increase of poor and food-insecure people as well as a sharp projected decrease of production of agricultural goods in Southeast...

Across Latin America, there are eight agroecology schools established by La via Campesina, the world's largest peasant movement, and the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC for its acronym in Spanish). Better known as the Latin American Agroecological Institutes (IALAs for its acronym in Spanish), these educational institutes are...

This special issue of the Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies (RAFE) aims to collect social science and economic articles based on detailed empirical research conducted in the Global South and North (including comparative studies) to discuss and develop a procedural relational approach to "agrifood justice."  Agriculture and food are...

The Latin American Agroecological Institute (IALA IXIM ULEW) initiative of the global peasant movement La Via Campesina aims to train young people in agroecology principles and practices. This video explains more about graduates' experiences from IALA in Nicaragua through Migdalia Cruz, a young woman from Jinotega, a coffee-growing department in northern Nicaragua. Migdalia is also a...

This paper presents participatory photography as an innovative methodology to understand the subjective motivations behind Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) adoption by members of Women's Self-Help Groups in Andhra Pradesh, India. It explored how participatory photography, with the novel addition of thematic collages, can be integrated into interdisciplinary research as...

Agroecology represents a model system that supports the environment by offering an approach to food production that enhances biodiversity, builds ecological resilience, improves soil diversity, reduces the use of natural resources, and provides a healthy environment for the planet. It is increasingly recognized as an effective system that generates a...