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The food system in Guanajuato, Mexico faces many challenges: increasing numbers of overweight and obesity, intensive production of high value-added fruits and vegetables for export, depletion of water resources, lack of coordination of actors, low participation citizen and omnipresence of corruption. However, initiatives are emerging in the territory and the...
Mexico
Video
2018
The food system of Valparaíso in Chile faces many challenges: a neoliberal economic model that favors national economic development to the detriment of small local producers, the low purchasing power of households hinders access to healthy food, a strong legacy of the dictatorship of Pinochet, who still generates fear of...
Chile
Video
2019
Formally adopted in 2018 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas is a landmark for the right to food of small-scale producers and the struggle for food sovereignty around the world.
FIAN International organizes this three-part...
Event
2020
Agroecology started to amplify agroecology in Nicaragua in the 1980s and was translated into national policy in 2011. Using the Multi-Level Perspective on sustainability transitions (MLP), this paper explores whether the rise of agroecology has fundamentally transformed Nicaragua’s agri-food system. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative study including a...
Nicaragua
Journal article
2020
This presentation claims that innovations for family farmers must deliver improved livelihoods in rural areas. It argues that all innovation has to comply with the SDGs: more people working with more value and higher quality of life. Agroecology is an innovation based on peasant knowledge centered farming systems and innovation...
Innovation
2019
The FAO Glossary on Organic Agriculture in English, French and Spanish contains 401 concepts and definitions, where appropriate, which have been selected from FAO and international documents and publications on Organic Agriculture, as well as from the proceedings of meetings of experts discussing Organic Agriculture and Food Security issues. The...
Book
2009
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