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Greenovate! Europe
Greenovate! Europe is a not-for-profit network of organisations dedicated to sustainable innovation. Together we develop sustainability projects and provide innovation support to researchers, companies and policy-makers.
European Union
2023 - Greenovate! Europe
Blog article
Sommet régional sur le Bassin du Congo: Un appel à placer les communautés locales au centre des priorités
Le sommet régional sur le Bassin du Congo, organisé par l’Alliance pour la souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique (AFSA) et ses partenaires, sous le thème : « Réconcilier la production alimentaire avec la conservation de la biodiversité et l’urgence climatique dans le Bassin du Congo », a refermé ses portes le 31 août 2023,...
2023
Blog article
Agroecology can fix our food systems. Here’s how.
We all know there are no silver bullets that can address the confluence of crises that we currently encounter on our planet – hunger, widespread degradation of land and water resources, catastrophic biodiversity loss, and climate change. But agroecology is an approach that tackles these challenges systemically through developing a...
2023 - Forests News
Guidelines
Guía básica de aprendizaje: Sistema silvopastoril con arbustivo leguminoso (SILLEC)
“Guía Básica de Aprendizaje del Sistema Silvopastoril con Arbusto Leguminoso” (SILLEC), es una guía técnica para la implementación de módulos silvopastoriles que contribuyen a la resiliencia climática de comunidades agrícolas en siete municipios de Cuba que forman parte del proyecto “Resiliencia climática en el sector agrícola”. ecosistemas de Cuba” (IRES)....
Cuba
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
The smallholder farmers of Uganda
More than 70% of people in Uganda work in agriculture. The country has more than three and a half million family farms, and many of its smallholders are among the poorest people in the world. Ironically and tragically, they are also the people who most often suffer from hunger; 37.5% of the...
Uganda
2023 - Resilience Food Stories
Blog article
Apékira Gomgnimbou : l’agroécologiste éleveur de phacochères
Agroécologiste, apiculteur, éleveur d'animaux sauvages, Apékira Gomgnimbou est un défenseur bien connu de la cause du développement durable dans la province du Nahouri, région Centre-Sud. Portrait d'un paysan écologiste, éleveur de tortues et de phacochères, originaire de Pô et nostalgique de la Révolution d'août 1983. Gomgnimbou Apékira est une figure...
Burkina Faso
2023
Policy brief/paper
Strengthening the Contribution of Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education in Mainstreaming Agroecology in the Asia-Pacific
Food systems transformation in the Asia-Pacific depends on the dissemination and mainstreaming of new approaches that foster sustainable agriculture. One such approach is agroecology. Agroecology is fundamentally different from other approaches to sustainable development due to its systemic and holistic nature and by its reliance on localized and bottom-up solutions,...
2023 - APIRAS, APAARI
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Agroecological practices for sustainable transition - CANALLS
CANALLS aims to drive agroecological transitions in the humid tropics of Central and Eastern Africa via multi-actor transdisciplinary Agroecology Living Labs (ALLs) and providing holistic agroecological solution that meet the challenges of the local food systems.
2023 - The CANALLS consortium
Blog article
All eyes on agroecology as Vietnam embarks on food system transformation journey
Vietnam is positioning itself as a food innovation hub for Asia, and is building its reputation as a responsible, transparent, and sustainable food provider in the process. As part of this transformation from agri-food systems based on crop monocultures and separate intensive livestock rearing, sustained by environmentally disruptive chemicals, it is...
Viet Nam
2023 - Forests News
Blog article
Inspirational idea: Organic experimental farm in Finland testing methods for improved animal welfare
HAMK Mustiala campus farm is an organic dairy experimental farm in Finland which offers a working environment for research, education and innovation projects. Research institutes, advisory services and agricultural companies cooperate with Mustiala on-site carrying out tests and research activities, many of which are related to animal welfare.
Finland
2023 - EU CAP Nertwork
Practices
Efficient seed extraction in organic tomato cultivation
Tomato is a special case among vegetables, as its seeds can only be extracted from the pulp after a fermentation step. In order to optimise this working process, various harvesting frequencies and extraction timepoints were tested at FiBL Switzerland.
The availability of organic seed has come into focus, as derogations to...
Switzerland
2023 - FiBL Switzerland
Report
Gender Transformative Approaches to Strengthen Women’s Land and Resource Rights
International standards and policies are clear about women’s right to equality in the enjoyment of all their rights, including rights to access, use, inherit, control and own land. Sustainable Development Goal Target 5.a specifically calls for reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to,...
2023 - Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD
Video
Family Farming Cooperatives. Ensuring Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems
Small-scale family farmers and their organizations are at the heart of sustainable food systems. In particular, family farming cooperatives are pivotal actors in many activities which food systems encompass, from production, aggregation and processing to distribution and consumption, providing key services and being often a driver of innovation. While developing...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Réchauffement climatique : “Comment l’agroécologie peut sauver l’agriculture”
Spécialiste de l’agroécologie, Emmanuel Torquebiau est chercheur émérite au Cirad de Montpellier. Il explique en quoi le moment est charnière, pris en étau par ce qu’il appelle des “coups durs”, ces “crises” environnementales répétées, incendies de 2022, sécheresse et canicule historique en 2023. Des crises peut-être, finalement, salutaires “pour une...
2023
Journal article
Agroforestry policy development in England: a question of knowledge transference
Agroecology as a concept for reimagining food systems has grown in popularity and is now used in several food and agriculture policy frameworks around the world. While there is a significant body of research around agroecology, its origins, applications, and as a much-needed transition pathway to sustainable food systems, there is limited understanding...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2023
Event
First Global Forum of The United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019–2028
The First Global Forum of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019–2028 was co-organized by FAO and IFAD, with the aim of leveraging the experiences of different actors in order to take stock of the achievements and challenges faced since the launch of the UNDFF. The different sessions hosted...
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Book
Fertile Ground
Scaling agroecology from the ground up
There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overcome the interlinking challenges...
Brazil - Burkina Faso - Ecuador - Ghana - Haiti - Honduras - Mali - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - United States of America
2023 - Groundswell International
Practices
Agroforestry: Combining fruit production and poultry farming (BIOFRUITNET Video)
Fruit growers have to deal with a lot of hazards in terms of climate change or phytosanitary constraints which is why many seek to diversify their farms.
Switzerland
2023 - INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
Book
Fruit and Nuts of Vietnam - Vietnamese
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2023
Project
LIFE TransilvaCooperation
Project Objectives
GOAL
Demonstrate how landscape-scale cooperation can improve conservation management of Habitats Directive grassland habitats of farmland N2000 sites in Transylvania, and improve effectiveness of agri-environment measures, halting the loss of species and habitats of European importance.
OBJECTIVES
Develop habitat, species, land use maps for Angofa and Viscri valleys including landscape features.
Develop local management plans in...
Romania
2023 - EU’s LIFE programme
Total results:3820