Argentina, where around 60 per cent of the arable land is planted with genetically-modified soya, has become one of the countries where the agribusiness model is expanding the most rapidly. Recent years have also, however, seen the strong emergence of an alternative model promoting food sovereignty and agroecological practices, in...

Los beneficios de un sistema agroecológico de producción han sido abordados desde la perspectiva de la economía, la mejora del medio ambiente y la participación social. Sin embargo a lo largo de los años de su desarrollo en el país, no se ha logrado la visión de la agroecología como...

A project that has made a difference in the lives of thousands of people living in the semi-arid region of Bahia, helping to produce and even export the most adapted to the biome and adverse climatic conditions, was considered the best in the world by the United Nations (UN).

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...