Durante mucho tiempo la producción de ganado en el trópico seco se ha centrado en el desmonte del bosque (también llamado “monte”) y la siembra de pastos mejorados. Sin embargo, el bosque tropical seco alberga numerosas especies de árboles y arbustos con potencial forrajero. Cada vez son más reconocidos los...

En los Andes, la agroecología se promueve a través de proyectos de desarrollo rural que comúnmente trabajan con agrobiodiversidad, poblaciones tradicionales y la promoción de cadenas de valor. Los estudios comparativos con encuestas de hogares son herramientas útiles para entender la situación en hogares agroecológicos y no agroecológicos, o participantes...

Agroecology is our best option for creating a food and farming system capable of nurturing people, societies, and the planet. But it is still not widespread as it should be. Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up, a new book edited by our Executive Director Steve Brescia and published by Food...

In this latest book in the Reclaiming Diversity and Citizenship Series published by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Zhenzhong Si offers a new perspective on how to shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems in China. This book draws upon the framework of the IPES-Food report (from Uniformity to Diversity) to review...

For several decades, civil society organizations (CSOs), farmers (POs) and research institutions are taking initiatives to develop agroecology in Senegal. The municipality of Ndiob has particularly distinguished itself through its exemplary policy. Finally, the Senegalese state has recently placed the transition among the five major initiatives of the Commission's Priority...

A workshop, aimed at collecting and documenting the diversity of integrated agriculture aquaculture practices (IAA), was organized on 25 August 2018 in Montpellier during the International conference AQUA 2018 of the World and European Aquaculture Societies. The objectives were to clarify how an IAA implemented within an agroecological approach could...