This document is the conference proceedings of the meeting led by the Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa (3AO) on 27-29 January. Farmers and peasant organizations from across West Africa joined forces with international development agencies and research centres gathered to give impetus to a growing agroecological movement in the...

ASEAN is one of the most productive agricultural baskets in the world. In 2012, the region produced 129 million tons of rice, 40 million tons of corn, 171 million tons of sugarcane, 1.44 million tons of soybean, and 70.34 million tons of cassava. ASEAN is likely to increase exports to...

he Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), University of South Pacific (USP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) are partnering to develop weather advisories aimed at helping farmers better plan their crop production. A meeting to discuss moving...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) is a unique applied agricultural research center in the world with a focus on marginal areas where an estimated 1.7 billion people live. It identifies, tests and introduces resource‐efficient, climate‐smart crops and technologies that are best suited to different regions affected by salinity,...

The holistic gardening project in Emuhaya, Western Kenya, is attracting local and international acclaim. Bio Gardening Innovations (BIOGI) is equipping smallholder farmers to break away from monocultures and create thriving, overflowing “food forests” on their farmland. Maize, the staple crop of Vihaga and Kakamega counties in Kenya, is harvested twice a...

The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of analysis often tends to overlook vital factors, such as biodiversity, soil quality, pesticide impacts and societal shifts, and these oversights can lead to wrong conclusions on the merits of intensive and organic agriculture....

Did you know that this squash I am holding has more vitamin A than golden rice?” - Angelita Mangangan, an organic farmer from the Philippines, for #IGrowYourFood

Ana Claudia Rauber es una joven agricultora familiar que vive y trabaja en su propiedad y de su familia en Cantagalo, estado de Paraná - Brasil. De los estudios de posgrado en Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural Sostenible, la agricultora transformó toda la propiedad en producción agroecológica, y contó con el apoyo de...

Ronnie Cumins, uno de los fundadores de Vía Orgánica y director de Regeneración Internacional, nos explica detalladamente esta gran iniciativa que significa un futuro brillante para el planeta.

In 2009, the Laos government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation entered into a bilateral agreement for the implementation of "The Agro-Biodiversity Initiative (TABI)" in upland Laos. The initiative sought to conserve, enhance, manage, and sustainably utilize the biological diversity found in upland farming landscapes to improve the...

La producción agroecológica empieza a tener certificaciones que son gratuitas y que por eso no encarecen las producciones. Cuál es la diferencia con la certificación orgánica, y cómo se llegó a una victoria histórica del movimiento agroecológico que contó con apoyo e investigación de INTA y Senasa, tomando experiencias de...

The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. It addresses comprehensively the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. The strategy is also central to the Commission’s agenda to achieve the United Nations’...

Since 2015, the Earth to Tables Legacies project has brought together a small group of food activists across big differences - youth/elders, rural/urban, Indigenous/settler, Canadian/Mexican for exchange around food justice, and food sovereignty. Conversations and food initiatives are filmed and culminated in a multimedia educational package that includes facilitator’s guides, resources,...

The farm side of agroecology is only half the picture. Food sovereignty is of vital importance; it's the right for every single person on this Earth to have access to nutritious food and the knowledge of how to prepare it.” George, an agroecological farmer from the UK, for #IGrowYourFood

Globally an estimated 20 to 60 million hectares of land in developing countries are acquired by foreign companies and investors. This so-called “land grabbing” has taken place for various reasons. The most obvious one is the hunger for maximising profit. The devastating effects on deforestation for the expansion of biofuels,...

The Agroecological and Solidarity Alternatives SOL define peasant agroecology in this document and raise issues related to its dissemination by studying jointly its three component pillars: a scientific discipline, environmentally-friendly agricultural practices, and a social movement in defense of sustainable and equitable agricultural and food systems.

La situación provocada por la pandemia del coronavirus ha reforzado la necesidad de crear un Banco de Alimentos alternativo, impulsado desde la agroecología y la economía social y solidaria. AlterBanc es una propuesta de cooperación entre dos colectivos precarizados por el sistema capitalista, las personas que sufren pobreza alimentaria y...

“Building Local Economies in East Africa through Agroecology’’ is a project implemented by Slow Food and funded by the Agroecology Fund with the aim of boosting local economies and improving the livelihood of communities in Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. Slow Food Uganda in collaboration with Slow Food International is working in Uganda to...

Fidelina es la segunda hija de la familia González Rojas, de Paraguay. Dedicada trabajadora rural, defensora ambiental y promotora de las buenas prácticas agrícolas, entendió la problemática de disminución de la productividad del suelo de la propriedad de su familia, por la explotación intensiva con el monocultivo y la aplicación indiscriminada de productos...

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