Agroecology Knowledge Hub

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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

The database provides a starting point to organize the existing knowledge on agroecology, collecting articles, videos, case studies, books and other important material in one place. The objective is to support policy-makers, farmers, researchers and other relevant stakeholders through knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. The database is a ‘living process’ that is constantly being updated.

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Abstract. The production of sufficient food for an increasing global population while conserving natural capital is a major challenge to humanity. Tree-mediated ecosystem services are recognized as key features of more sustainable agroecosystems but the strategic management of tree attributes for ecosystem service provision is poorly understood. Six agroforestry and tree...
Journal article
2017
The soil environment is likely the most complex biological community. Soil organisms are extremely diverse and contribute to a wide range of ecosystem services that are essential to the sustainable function of natural and managed ecosystems. The soil organism community can have direct and indirect impacts on land productivity. Direct...
Journal article
2007
This technical guide provides details of numerous techniques specific for tropical wet zones. It describes the core principles of agroecology, distilling local knoweldge accumulated by family farming. This guide is designed as a support tool for technicians and farmers involved in actions to promote and develop agroecology and consists of two...
Guidelines
2017
This website from the Oakland Insitute collects thirty-three case studies on the success of agroecological agriculture in Africa. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of the farmers and their environment can yield economic, social and food securit benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Mali - Niger - Rwanda - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
Website
2018
This is a summary note on the CALAO (Capitalization of stakeholder experience for the development of resilient agro-ecological techniques in West Africa) Project. CALAO's goail is to make the following available for practitioners, political bodies, and development cooperation institutions: a) reference information on the agro-environmental and socio-economic effects and impacts of...
Burkina Faso - Senegal - Togo
Policy brief/paper
2018
This report presents the full extent of the results of the study carried out as part of the project Capitalization of stakeholder experience for the development of resilient agro-ecological techniques in West Africa (CALAO). The CALAO project aims at making the following available for practitioners, political bodies, and development cooperation institutions: reference information...
Burkina Faso - Senegal - Togo
Report
2018
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