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Food systems are facing major constraints, notably climate change and societal expectations, and are at an historic crossroads. Given the accelerating impact of global warming on resources such as water, as well as extreme weather events that ravage crops or destroy homes and infrastructure, and the depletion of soils and...
Événement
2024
If agroecology is to gain ground, young people must be educated and inspired. Not enough development initiatives target youth, and it is often said that young people are not interested in agriculture, the stories in this book reveal that young people can and do inspire each other. This book showcases just a few...
Benin - Cameroon - Egypt - India - Kenya - Malawi - Mali - Morocco - Rwanda - Senegal - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
Livre
2024
Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system boundaries. Here, this study estimated how agricultural diversification simultaneously affects social and...
article de journal
2024
Agroecology and organic agriculture present promising alternatives to the current food system, supported by a growing body of evidence. Despite the potential of AE/O, their full benefits cannot be realised in most countries due to political and institutional barriers and lock-ins, including incentives and funding that favour “business as usual”...
Note d’orientation
2024
Sargassum, a type of brown macroalgae, has been inundating beaches across the Caribbean since 2011. It comes from the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. The seaweed has harmed Caribbean economies and human health, making it a national emergency in some island-nations.
Over the past decade, entrepreneurs and scientists have found ways...
Article
2024
The paper discusses the increasing use of the term agroecology in scientific literature and how its meanings vary in different contexts. However, the key issue is not the different understandings of agroecology per se, but whether various interpretations align with its intrinsic systemic and transformative meaning. To address this, the...
article de journal
2024
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