In 1987, the popularization of an organoponics program began in Cuba. In 1995 this movement was strengthened by the addition of “intensive gardening"" and was created by the National Commission for Organoponics and Intensive Orchards. In 1997 a national system was organized and named as ""Urban Agriculture Movement"". Both Animal and...

En el marco del movimiento campesino internacional, la Agroecología se ha convertido en una estrategia de trabajo que enfrenta las consecuencias que impone el agronegocio y las políticas que lo sustentan, al defender la posición de que sólo este modelo de agricultura es capaz de enfriar el planeta. Durante más de...

Este cuaderno de la Vía Campesina describe que "Como La Vía Campesina pensamos que en este momento de disputa por la agroecología, es importante compartir avances en nuestros procesos para identificar, documentar, sistematizar y compartir los éxitos de la agroecología campesina. Con este cuadernillo, ofrecemos una selección inicial, una primera...

Este video presenta un informe sobre cómo se desarrolla la agroecología familiar orgánica en diferentes partes de Bolivia.

“Eating is an agricultural act” as the American novelist, farmer and poet Wendell Berry stated in his 1989 essay ‘On the pleasures of eating’. But what does this actually mean? According to Berry: “Most people think of food as an agricultural product, but they do not think of themselves as...

The first farmers’ market (farmářský trh in Czech) in the Czech capital, Prague, was held in 2009 and since then demand for fresh locally-grown produce has continued to increase. Within two years, there were more than 13 farmers’ markets in the capital. Jana Spilkovà, an Assistant Professor of Social Geography...