In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food...

Agronomic practices and management decisions can have a significant impact on the type and number of weeds on a farm. Understanding this relationship can help organic producers manage weeds through avoidance, and various cultural management practices. The most important steps of non-chemical weed management are prevention, diagnosis, and a number of...

La subregión Sarapiquí del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), se ubica en zona norte de Costa Rica, que representa el 80 percent del territorio de la provincia de Heredia, cuenta con una gran biodiversidad, humedales, ríos, montañas, áreas protegidas de gran importancia a nivel mundial y combinado con diferentes...

Traditional Chiloé island agriculture is a highly integrated and self-sufficient system. It relies on the agrobiodiversity supported by traditional agricultural practices to efficiently use natural resources from the sea, forest and livestock for soil health improvement and for integrated pest management. The Zhejiang Huzhou system includes traditional and agroecological knowledge through...

In many regions of Canada, the footprint of agriculture is increasing. This often results in excessive losses of wildlife habitat and biodiversity, increases in GHG emissions and carbon losses, and degradation of water quality and soil resources. This project aims at conserving, protecting and valuing natural features, such as riparian...

Producing on-farm fertilizers based on local organic residues is an empowering action for family farmers. For this reason, we conducted the project “Development of alternative fertilizers to support the agroecological management of family-based agriculture production systems in Goiás, Midwest Brazil”, from June 2014 to May 2017, aimed at developing and...