These guidelines have been prepared by IFOAM-Organics International as part of the Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture. The guidelines make the cornerstone of this toolkit and present a compilation of facts, arguments and tips on the full panel of policy measures that have been identified to...

The terminology and conceptual framework for describing Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) was first developed from the International Alternative Certification Workshop held in Brazil in 2004 and sponsored by IFOAM - Organics International and the MAELA. During this event, the dynamics of different alternative organic certification systems were shared and their...

This article published in Common Dreams showcases the failures of the predominant input-intensive agriculture approach, still supported by big Donors. According to the author, branding agroecology as a backward-looking, do-nothing approach to traditional agriculture is a defensive response to the failures of Green Revolution practices.  He highlights that the report  “Agroecological and...

This Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - the flagship publication of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition - issues explores the impacts of dematerialization, digitalization and financialization on the food systems. It discusses how these processes are altering the conception of the food market, and how...

The Farmers and Rural Producers’ Organizations Mapping (FO-MAPP) was created to fill the critical information and visibility gap of farmers’ organizations. FO-MAPP is an interactive online database that provides geo-referenced information on local smallholders', family farmers' and other rural producers’ organizations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the...

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are landscapes of aesthetic beauty that combine agricultural biodiversity, resilient ecosystems and cultural heritage.GIAHS recognizes the Kihambas of Mt. Kilimanjaro as unique agricultural sites, a nature-based solution that protects biodiversity and ensures food security in a changing climate. In the video we meet some...