This online course, launched by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and the French National Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Science, Montpellier SupAgro, shows what agroecology is, what the different approaches are and how they translate into agricultural practices. In a participatory training dynamic, based on the social and geographical diversity of...

The Sustainable Food Production Program in Peri-urban is a public policy that promotes the productive transition of the peri-urban areas of Municipalities and Communes (in both intensive and extensive productions) in relation to the environmental, social and economic aspects of the productive processes. This initiative seeks to promote and strengthen alternatives...

Iván León Ayala, FAO Representative in Nicaragua, talks about how agroecology could help the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. He states that Nicaragua has a great potential to apply agroecological practices in different sectors, since a lot of work has been already done so far by farmers and...

As part of its food security and livelihood programs, Action Against Hunger (ACF-USA) has organized seed fairs in rural areas of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to provide farmers with seeds. The fairs have been widely spread and had a great number of direct beneficiaries and vendors, successfully...

The processes of agrarian and food transition towards sustainable food systems are constructed by including a territorial perspective. Whether they are called "short circuits" or "territorialized systems", the initiatives that enter into these transitions reconnect production with consumption and facilitate -and encourage- a collaboration between spaces and sectors. They are...

Indigenous cocoyams in Burundi have the potential to increase food and nutrition security and contribute to improved livelihoods, but farmers’ capacity to meet the growing demand for them has been constrained by a lack of good quality seed and technical knowhow. The Good Seed Initiative targeted both seed and cocoyam...