This report, prepared at the request of the Committee on World Food Security, explores the trends, constraints, and prospects of young people’s engagement and employment in agriculture and sustainable food systems. Today’s youth live in a world facing a confluence of crises, including climate and environmental change and global inequalities...

The Province of Buenos Aires launched an institutional initiative called "Alimentos Bonaerenses", made up of six comprehensive programs aimed at strengthening food production and productive development, especially focused on small producers. The initiative includes among its lines of action the promotion of agroecology and local markets.  The objective of the program...

The green revolution raised Vietnamese farmers' awareness converted their natural farming methods into conventional agriculture using short-term rice and vegetable hybrids and intensive inputs of agrochemicals. Unfortunately, Vietnamese society nowadays has a considerable concern about conventional farming's side-effect on human health and the natural environment. There is a robust demand...

The global agenda for sustainable development includes the alleviation of poverty and hunger by developing sustainable agriculture and food systems. Intensive farming systems and their variations, such as sustainable intensification or ecological intensification, are currently being promoted as technologies that can improve agricultural productivity and reduce environmental impacts. However, these...

What does agroecology mean? How is it practiced? Who are the holders/creators of agroecological knowledge? What are the exciting questions or recent advances in agroecology research? This session discussed the interpretation of agroecology evolution as a practice, research discipline, and social movement.

Food production is the world’s leading cause of biodiversity loss. It also accounts for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and causes widespread degradation of the land and water resources upon which it depends. Agroecology is a science that applies the principles and concepts of ecology to farming, making the most of nature’s...